Bethany will be participating as a judge at the University of York's Interactive Media Showcase.
“The Interactive Media Showcase is showcases student work from the Interactive Media BSc degree at the University of York, UK. The event is held every year, and this year will be held inside the Black Box (a Facility in the TFTI Department)”
Good luck to all the students presenting their innovative projects!
https://imshowcase.co.uk/
We’re elated to announce that we are advancing to the National Finals of the Santander University Emerging Entrepreneurs competition! We’ve been selected as one of eight startups out of 81 who competed in the semi-finals on 23 September.
The finals will be held on 29 September and are open to the public to watch by registering here. We will be competing for the prize of £30,000 seed funding as well as a paid intern. There will be a panel of prestigious judges who include Theo Paphitis (TV Dragon), Prue Leith (Chancellor, Queen Margaret University and judge on The Great British Bake Off), Warwick Hill (Business executive and entrepreneur), Julie Devonshire OBE (Director of the Entrepreneurship Institute at King’s College London), Nathan Bostock, Chief Executive, Santander UK, and Susan Allen, CEO, Retail and Business Banking, Santander UK.
We were originally accepted to represent the University of York in the Emerging Entrepreneur competition in April 2020 and have been taking part in their accelerator program throughout the summer via online webinar sessions. It has been a great learning experience and we are so excited to take part in the next chapter of this journey!
Experience Heritage is excited to welcome Owen Burton to the team throughout June as our digital marketing intern! Partnering with the University of York and Santander Universities SME Internship Programme, we are lucky to be able to access the amazing talent emerging from the U of Y and we are excited to be a part of Owen’s career journey. We asked Owen a few quick questions about him and his project.
What are you doing at Experience Heritage?
My role is to help Experience Heritage develop their ongoing marketing campaign during their second year in business. This one-month placement involves building their social media profile and helping them communicate their niche in the digital heritage world as a company that combines the latest techniques in 3D digital modelling, mobile app development and mixed reality technologies with knowledge of archaeology from a research perspective. I’m looking forward to helping kick-start a monthly newsletter, creating videos about the company and posting regularly as the company continues to move forward!
Tell us about your background
I’ve just completed a PhD all about Finnish music, so this placement is definitely something new and challenging, but I’ve always loved heritage sites and museums. I was able to combine my passions for music and heritage back in 2018 when I had the opportunity to complete a project with the National Trust at Lyme Park all about the social musical history of the house. I have also worked with arts and music organisations in North Wales where I really enjoyed engaging people in the world of classical music and I look forward to doing the same with digital heritage.
How did this internship come about?
This internship is part of the Student Internship Bureau which sees collaboration between the University of York and job sectors in Yorkshire for project-based placements. Having just finished my PhD, this was a great opportunity to gain more experience of a public-facing role, the heritage sector as well as working within a small team.
What’s it like starting an internship remotely?
Another reason I applied for this placement was to gain more experience of working in an office and a small team. Having spent the last three-and-a-half years doing a PhD, working remotely and in isolation is something I’m pretty familiar with! In that sense, starting to work for Experience Heritage from home hasn’t been too difficult to adjust to and, like everyone else at the moment, contact with team members has just moved online. But it’s been exciting to see how resilient the heritage sector has been over the past few months with COVID-19 and I’m looking forward to exploring how the digital focus of this company can help overcome some of the challenges in the sector as we look to what the heritage world will look like post-“Lockdown”.
What do you do in your spare time?
As a musician, I spend a lot of time playing, writing and listening to music, but I also love getting into the outdoors, walking and visiting heritage sites, so this placement is pretty exciting for me! I also enjoy learning Welsh (having lived there for six years), as well as cycling and cooking.
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