My thesis was a development project for the company I am currently working in and it presented the development of communication in an expert service company operating in the B2B market. The aim of my thesis was to give an overview of the development in addition to keep developing the company’s communications in ever-changing situations. The goal was to help the company, first, to understand the meaning of communications, and…
Early in 2017 after a long study break having completed my bachelor studies 21 years earlier in 1998 in the UK, I felt that it was time to continue my studies. I looked at what was on offer and I found Arcada offered a master’s course that ignited an interest in me. After applying and going to the entrance exams I was delighted to be offered a study place starting…
Creativity and highly creative, influential people have been the focus of philosophers, thinkers, and scholars for thousands of years. Creativity is the first stage of innovation and the essence of the cultural industries. Through a systematic literature review, this study aimed at bringing together various understandings and conceptualizations of the creativity phenomenon from several disciplines to address two gaps: one in cultural industries studies and one in creativity studies in…
Den här texten är en del av Arcadas alumnvecka 2020. In en serie personporträtt på våra sociala medier lyfter vi fram några av våra fantastiska Arcadaalumner, deras karriärer och insikter. Alex Reinikka studerade företagsekonomi vid Arcada och tog sin examen 2013. I dag arbetar han som Senior Business Support Specialist på DSV i Norge. Det här är Alex berättelse om karriären och studierna: ”Mitt huvudsakliga ansvarsområde är att utveckla en…
This story is part of Arcada’s Alumni Week 2020. In a series of portraits, we want to highlight some of our amazing Arcada alumni and showcase their career paths, insights and experiences. Arcada alumnus Michael Ringlein, originally from Germany, is the founder of a company in Estonia which he now runs full remote, doing web-development for clients from all over the world. – This gives me the freedom to travel…
Yasmine Owusu från Helsingfors blev klar med sina studier till hälsovårdare vid Arcada våren 2018. Efter sin examen arbetade hon på olika rådgivningar innan hon sommaren 2019 fick tjänst vid det då nyöppnade Berghälls familjecenter. I familjecentret samlas ett flertal social- och hälsovårdstjänster för barn och familjer under samma tak. – Det har varit spännande och givande att komma in i en helt ny arbetsgemenskap och få jobba med nya arbetssätt. Jag har trivts jättebra, säger…
Jan Nåls, Principal Lecturer, Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS The Swedish speaking minority in Finland has its own unique film culture – commonly referred to as Finlandssvensk film. Historically, it has been an unruly child who has demanded a little bit too much attention and money, a troublemaker with identity issues, part of a relatively civilised cultural family whose members are accustomed to other, more traditional, modes of…
Nathalie Hyde-Clarke (PhD), Head of the Department of Culture and Media, Arcada UAS Social impact is understood to be the influence and effect an organisation has on the well-being and development of its community. It can be measured in a variety of ways. For the purposes of this discussion on the effect of the BA in Film och Media (previously Mediekultur) offered by Arcada in the Finlandsvensk community, we…
Did you graduate in 2014? During the autumn, the universities are collecting data on employment, career paths and competence required in working life from those graduated in 2014. When contacted, please respond to the survey. The results of the survey help develop education and career guidance in the universities. Arcada takes part in the national career monitoring survey carried out by the project “AMKista uralle”. In early spring 2019 the first pilot…
Arcada deltar i det nationella projektet “AMKista uralle “, vilket är en karriäruppföljning över utexaminerade 2014. Karriäruppföljningen sker varje höst från och med den här hösten. Karriäruppföljningens resultat påverkar finansieringen från och med 2021. Arcada får jämförelsetal som baserar sig på de nationella resultaten. Här nedan hittas ett axplock ur de resultat som fåtts från piloteringsrundan. Svaren har getts av Arcadaalumner som utexaminerat 2013: -har heltidsjobb som fast tjänst, vikariat eller temporär anställning utan längre avbrott och de flesta respondenter är nöjda med sin karriär hittills -anser att arbetsgivarna uppskattar utbildningen högt -rekommenderar sin utbildning…