Kate Sicolo: English with Media Studies BA(Hons) graduate
BA(Hons) English with Media Studies, 2005 - 2008
Since graduating from Falmouth I have been employed by a sub-regional charity, The Intercom Trust, as their first anti-bullying and homophobia worker. My position is unique in the country, and I primarily spend my time working with classes of young people in schools encouraging and enabling inclusion and integration, training school staff and developing policies and procedures. I recently spoke and delivered workshops at a national conference with Sir Ian McKellen and Teresa Clarke, head of policy development at the DCSF, and have written schemes of work, which are now being delivered across the UK.
I draw upon skills gained during my degree study every day. The English course gave me the ability to research and formulate an argument and correctly reference and source materials. When I was asked to do a presentation as part of the interview process for my current position, I found that my degree had taught me how to plan and deliver this. For me, the main advantage of the course, and something which I imagine is fairly unique throughout degree level courses, was the flexibility offered within the programme of study and the numerous opportunities to focus one's attention on a specific area. This allowed me to build a really solid base knowledge of salient cultural theory, which I have now developed in my job.
English at Falmouth gave me the theoretical grounding to converse with the academics and students that I meet every day. I loved my time at Falmouth and I would recommend the course to anyone looking both to be challenged and to be given the opportunities to challenge themselves.
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