Collaborative partnerships

In the School of Arts, Media and Communication, we recognise the place our subjects hold within the wider community. Our University was founded with a clear civic mission and we proudly embrace serving the wider community through our disciplines and through our partnerships. From Literary Leicester and the Heritage Hub, to connections with the Stoneygate Centre for Empathic Healthcare, our School actively demonstrates the application of the Humanities beyond the classroom.

Media and Communication Studies and National Health Service Collaboration

Since 2023, our Dr Gabi Zogall, and Dr Ed Vollans have ensured students have gained real-world experience working with the Leicestershire NHS Partnership Trust to design and deliver meaningful health communications. This collaboration combines offering work experience in media practice, managing external client relationships, while delivering creative output that meets both the client’s and the industry’s expectations. Within this collaboration, we use our ALBERT (BAFTA) sustainability accreditation to map and account for the carbon output of content production. Modules that engage with this partnership have been shortlisted for the 2025 Association of Graduate Careers Advisory Services (AGCAS) employability awards.

Our collaboration highlights the different career pathways our graduates may pursue, and enables contact with industry professionals as they develop real-world skills and experience while studying at Leicester. Alongside this, the collaboration highlights the many impactful ways in which creative decisions and content benefit society, from the impact of choices made upon the environment, to the best use of tone and address to cover sensitive topics.