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Graduate Employability Support

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Introduction to the Graduate Employability team and offer

About the Graduate Support Hub

This careers platform is dedicated to supporting you during the first year after leaving UAL. You can find guidance, resources and insights to support your career goals.

Whether you are unsure of your goals, currently looking for work, starting your own business or a freelancer, we aim to provide you with an opportunity to manage your career development.

About us

Our team of Graduate Employability Specialists offer tailored support for up to 5 years after graduation.

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Contact us

Gradsupport@arts.ac.uk

Use the UAL Career Toolkit for self-guided courses and resources. 

We have curated a range of learning materials that provide you with in-depth knowledge and examples on a number of topics. You can study the materials at your own pace and revisit them as often as you like.

  • CV Library
  • How to cost and price your work
  • Planning your creative project
  • Valuing your creative rights
  • Time to trademark?
  • Develop your skills
  • What is networking? Why should I do it?
  • Where to network
  • Engage your network

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Graduate Outcomes Survey

At UAL we're always interested to hear what our graduates go on to do when you leave us.

An important part of this is Graduate Outcomes, a UK-wide survey that takes place 15 months after you complete your studies and is carried out by a third party.

It’s important to us that you complete this survey as it helps to inform the work of our careers team and shapes the type of support we offer future graduates.

    

Find out more about Graduate Outcomes

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Useful links

We have a wide variety of resources for you to use to help your employability. Here are some of our most popular items.

  • Graduate Support Padlet
  • Book a one-to-one
  • Creative Opportunities Jobs Board
  • ArtsTemps
  • Enterprise support
  • Interview 360/CV 360
  • Alumni team
  • Library resources
  • Degree certificates and transcripts
  • Graduation ceremonies
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Graduate stories

Find a vast collection of stories from students and graduates, helping to be inspired, consider your career next steps and plan your own story by hearing how others have done similar.

Check out the latest stories from recent Alumni.

Or listen to our podcast to hear the journeys of recent graduates. 

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Opportunities to apply for

Creative Business Internships

Looking for paid industry experience? 

This is your chance to work with small creative businesses founded by UAL graduates. These short internships are a great way to build your CV, explore different career paths, grow your network, and gain insight into running a creative business.

All internships are with businesses set up by UAL graduates and will provide insights into what is involved in working for yourself and running a creative enterprise.

See all internships here.

 

 

Craft Your Future

Do you dream of turning your craft into a career?

Our award–winning Business Incubation Team has developed a brand–new workshop programme especially for makers who are exploring whether to turn their creativity into a career or solo business.

Do you want to know what it takes?

Read more and apply here.

Creative Business Accelerator

UAL’s Creative Business Accelerator is a programme for graduates with active businesses ready to grow. You can expect workshops, tailored support from industry professionals, mentoring, peer coaching, and participation bursary.
 
We're running an online information session on 5 May 2026 if you want to find out more.
 
Deadline: 27 May 2026
 
Apply here.
 

The National Archives Project Grants

Project Grants of up to £30,000 fund substantial, collaborative projects between at least one GLAM (Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums) or Heritage organisation and one community group. These grants support in-depth research, skills development, and the creation of lasting resources that reflect diverse voices and experiences.

 

Read more and apply here.

Round 1 Deadline: 15 June 2026 at 6 PM. 

Channel 4 Work Experience

Learn in your own time, and complete true-to-life tasks, set by our teams across Channel 4. This programme is open to anyone 14+ years old, based in the UK and interested in gaining an in-depth understanding of the UK media industry. 

 

Click this link to register your interest and be first in line when enrolments open.

Theatres Trust's Small Grants Programme

Theatres Trust's Small Grants Programme, supported by The Linbury Trust, funds small projects that make a big impact to a theatre’s resilience, sustainability, accessibility or improving the diversity of audiences. This scheme provides grants of up to £7,500 for essential works to enable not-for-profit theatres across the UK to be viable and thrive in the future.

 

Read more and apply here.

Liberty Art Award

The Liberty Speciality Markets Art Award is now open! A unique, fully funded, two-year programme designed to support talented UK artists as they transition into professional practice.
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Deadline: 5 pm, 29 July 2026⁠

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Black Artist Grant

The Black Artists Grant offers £1,500 each month to 3 Black artists in the UK as no-strings-attached support for anything from making work to covering living costs, with recipients selected on a rolling basis and the option to put yourself forward for consideration.

Apply here

Palazzo Monti: Artist Residency

Palazzo Monti is an artist residency in a 13th-century palazzo in Brescia, offering artists an apartment, studio, and gallery space within a historic, fresco-filled setting, while providing opportunities for inspiration, collaboration, and easy access to nearby cultural hubs such as Milan, Venice, and Florence.

Apply here

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Artquest Opportunities

  • Future Generation Art Prize 2027
  • We Are Makers: Mini Grant 4
  • Stanley Picker Fellowships in Art & Design 2026
  • Pollock-Krasner Foundation Artist Grants
  • Remote ecologies: art, climate and the Amazon at the British Library
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Featured jobs

Jobs:

 
  • Social Media Assistant (deadline: 30 May 2026)
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Creative Opportunities

  • Website Launcher
  • Content Creator
  • Rick Owens-Inspired Sculptural Garment Commission — The Citadel Founding Dinner
  • Sales Assistant
  • Artists Wanted For After School Kids Club

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