We’re beyond proud to announce that the School of Creative Arts has been named Best Creative School in the UK in the coveted 2025 global Rookies awards 🏆⚡️
Our incredible Animation courses have also been awarded the titles of:
🥇The Best 2D Animation School in the UK overall
🥇 The Best 2D Animation School in the UK for Production Excellence 2D
🥇The Best Concept Art School in the UK
🥇 The Best VFX School in the UK
🥇Number Two in the World for Games Design and Development
🥇Number Two in the World for Production Excellence Visual Effects
🥇 Number Two in the World for Production Excellence Console Games
Huge congratulations to all the students and staff for all their incredible work!
To offer some context to just what an amazing achievement this is, all the other courses mentioned above Herts on the “Top 50 Creative Schools” list are private schools – some with tuition fees of up to $150,000
Go Team Animation! 🤩💥
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Let’s get to work! 👌
Amazing to see so many School of Creative Arts students in jobs before they even graduated! 🤩🙌
And if you’re not there yet…Your time will come!! We have faith in you✊
And remember, @uhcareers offer support for up to four years after graduation!🧑🎓
@uniofherts@jetstudios@asos@wrenkitchens@telegraph@astrafinancial@baxterstorey
#UHCreatives #CreativeCareers #HertsGrads #CareerDefining
It was an honour to host Academy Award-winning director (Toy Story 3, Coco) Lee Unkrich at the @uniofherts 🤩
Lee talked to our students about being the editor behind the critically acclaimed “Stanley Kubrick’s The Shining” from @taschen : a phenomenal deep-dive into one of the most legendary horror films of all time 😱
A huge thank you to Lee Unkrich and @uhfilmandtv ’s Principal Lecturer Howard Berry for this incredible experience!
📷🎥: @devanshhmusic
#StephenSpielberg #TheShining #Horror #HorrorFilms #HorrorMovie #Taschen #ClassicFilm #UniofHerts #UniversityofHertfordshire #StudyFilm #FilmStudies
Sonic Herts Festival 2026!
Every year, students from our undergraduate Music Production, Audio Engineering and Live Sound and Lighting courses are treated to an incredible line-up of industry speakers, networking events and live performances, as well as being given opportunities to showcase their own music and hard work.
Here are just some of the highlights from the week including the best of songwriting live performances from our students, a Film music showreel showcase, a performance from Cyrano and various talks from music industry experts and CEO’s.
Look out for more pics and videos to come from this brilliant event!
#SonicHerts26 #Music #UniOfHerts #SchoolOfCreativeArts
Very exciting to see our BA (Hons) Model Design and Special effects final year students putting the finishing touches to their final projects ahead of this Thursday’s Degree Show opening.
Some amazing work in progress, we can’t wait to see the end results! 🤩
#Model #Design #SchoolOfCreativeArts
We've just heard that another of our BA (Hons) Animation films ‘Bachelor Pad’ has won the Best Animated Short award at the Global Shorts festival in Los Angeles!
The film about a single frog in a single-use world was written, directed, edited, composited and animated by Uni of Herts student Lee Ogilvy.
A massive well-done – what a brilliant film!
#Animation #Festival #LA #SchoolOfCreativeArts
We are so proud of our brilliant BA Film and Television graduate Kyri Zindilis, who won a BAFTA last night as part of the senior production team of BBC One’s EastEnders; which is recorded at Hertfordshire’s Fairbanks Studios (formerly BBC Elstree Centre).
Kyri is the Story Producer, and this was the second win for Kyri and the show in consecutive years! 🏆 EastEnders entertains the nation four nights a week every week - the equivalent to 52 feature films each year. Congratulations to Kyri and all at EastEnders!
We are pleased to announce that Film and TV Lecturer Howard Berry is having a special screening and Q&A of his feature documentary at the Prince Charles Cinema in London, on Thursday 14 May, at 18:00.
🎬🎞️ Her Name Was Moviola reconstructs a 35mm film cutting room at Elstree and takes viewers through the editing of two scenes from Mike Leigh’s Mr. Turner — from rushes and separate sound recordings to the completed edit — using a Moviola, the 100-year-old machine that underpinned most 20th-century film editing practice. Throughout, the techniques and creative decision-making are explored in detail. Acclaimed film editor and sound designer Walter Murch (The Conversation, Apocalypse Now), alongside his assistant Dan Farrell, demonstrates the now largely lost techniques of manual film and assistant editing. The film culminates with a review at Stanley Kubrick’s home, where Mike Leigh reflects on the work.
The film will be followed by a Q&A where Howard will be discussing the reconstruction with Walter Murch.
The film recently won an RTS Programme award for Best Craft Editing, as well as Best Practice-Based Research at the 2025 MECCSA conference.
You can find full details and tickets in our bio! Or if you’re viewing this on Facebook, search Prince Charles Cinema.
Our MA Teaching English to Speakers of Other Languages cohort recently had a lunch together for their final workshop before moving into Semester C and starting their dissertations! 📖
It was such a lovely opportunity for the students to come together with their lecturers and celebrate all of their hard work.
We hope that your final semester is just as successful and rewarding! 💫
#MA #TESOL #UniOfHerts
Last week our BA (Hons) Film & TV Production students attended a networking event organised by Hertfordshire Film Office @hertsfilmoffice . 🎥
Students had an opportunity to meet guest speakers from Elstree Immersive Experience, All Spring Media and This Is Icon, and connect with young filmmakers in the industry.
This was a brilliant opportunity for our students to network and make new connections, as they look forward to starting their careers after graduation!
#FilmandTV #UHFTV #HFONetwork
📚 Our first-year BA (Hons) English Literature students were treated to a masterclass by poet Will Harris. He is the author of ‘Rendang’ and ‘Brother Poem’, Forward Prize winner, and T.S. Eliot Prize short listee. Will took students from Russian Formalist theories of fabula to the charged silence of the comic-book gutter, tracing the gaps and elisions through which storytelling does its most essential work.
Will led his masterclass as part of the School of Creative Arts’ Visiting Writer Programme, which each year invites three award-winning writers to work closely with students across the full range of creative disciplines; from poetry and fiction to screenwriting, bringing practising voices from the contemporary literary world directly into the seminar room.
#WillHarris #Poet #EnglishLiterature
Herts graduate wins BAFTA! 🏆
Congratulations to alumna Olaide Sadiq, who won the Emerging Talent: Factual BAFTA for her role as Director of ‘Grenfell: Uncovered’.
Olaide, who graduated from Herts in 2015 with a degree in English Literature, said: “Being recognised with BAFTA has been an honour. I’ve been in the TV industry for nearly a decade, and it’s not something I ever envisioned would happen, but I’m so glad it has.”
An incredible achievement for a very important film - well done Olaide! So proud of you! 👏👏
#BAFTA #UniOfHerts #Alumna #SchoolOfCreativeArts
