Jennifer Cardoma

"I came to London and to the MA Visual Culture programme looking for a new route to combine with my Interior Design degree, and for new inspiration. Technically I am from Washington , DC but my heart is from Medellin, Colombia – and so is my family. I have found inspiration in London and in the programme , and I am excited to bring these experiences to Colombia"

Sarah Nichols

In reponse to her work experience
"MAKE is a small organization and I felt that the work I was doing making a difference in the office. I helped to organise fundraising events including a series of talks by various women artists, and Professor Germaine Greer. Overall, I loved working there, all of the women were very helpful."

Harvey Ward Turner

"I am frequently surprised at how newly acquired knowledge turns one in a new and quite unexpected direction.
Amongst all the ideas new to me I came into contact with during my MA Visual Culture course at University of Westminster, the most profound was the idea of reflectivity. I quickly grasped the importance of this principle in teaching; that learners could be shown how standard interpretation remains only one interpretation, and that others are in all probability equally valid and worth equal consideration.
After my MA I undertook a PGCE at Sheffield Hallam University, in post-compulsory education, this being the area of teaching I perceived as having a disproportionately high number of fragile learners who often suffer from low self-esteem. Reflectivity is a method whereby their experiences and stories can be shown to have value in the pursuit of creativity. I put this principle successfully into practice during ten months teaching at Derby College of Art and Design. With appointment to my first full-time post as lecturer in 3D studies at North West Kent College, I now have the opportunity to develop these ideas further."