16 episodes

For creative workers who care about the issues that matter, Get A Proper Job is a podcast that discusses, debates and showcases the highs and lows of working in a creative job or organisation. Bringing together industry experts to share new knowledge and thinking.

Get A Proper Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

Get A Proper Job Creative Cardiff

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For creative workers who care about the issues that matter, Get A Proper Job is a podcast that discusses, debates and showcases the highs and lows of working in a creative job or organisation. Bringing together industry experts to share new knowledge and thinking.

Get A Proper Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

    #4. Creative careers making social impact

    #4. Creative careers making social impact

    In this episode of Get a ‘Proper’ Job, host Kayleigh Mcleod talks to Becky Davies; Theatre Designer, Artist and Creative Access Coordinator, and Chris Hill; Green Manager for Film Cymru Wales. They discuss the future of work in the creative and cultural industries and focus on some of the new jobs which are emerging to address societal issues.

    This episode was recorded remotely in August 2021.

    Get A ‘Proper’ Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

    Presented by: Kayleigh Mcleod. Series producer: Vicki Sutton. Editor: Beca Nia Music by: Tic Ashfield. Artwork by: Hoffi.

    You can follow Creative Cardiff on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to find out more about our work or join the Creative Cardiff network.

    Links


    Taking Flight theatre company
    ALBERT
    Future Generations Act
    Welsh Government programme for government
    One Planet Cardiff
    Our Creative Place
    Green Cymru
    Tin Shed Theatre Company – Rocket Launch, Blaenavon

    Recommendations


    The Tate sensorium 
    Cineregio network sub group green regio
    David Attenborough Blue Planet

    Download a transcript of this episode here.

    • 32 min
    #3 Cultivating creative leadership

    #3 Cultivating creative leadership

    In the third episode of the third series of Get a ‘Proper’ Job, host Kayleigh Mcleod talks to Gillian Mitchell; Chief Executive of National Youth Arts Wales and Dr Sita Thomas; a Theatre Maker, Channel 5 Milkshake Presenter, Artistic Director of Fio, Creative Associate at Wales Millennium Centre, and also a Trustee at the Young Vic Theatre and Emergency Exits Arts. They discuss leadership and the creative and cultural industries, diversity within leadership roles, and what qualities make a great leader.

    Links and more information

    Emergency Exit Arts

    Fio

    Chwarae Teg

    Guest recommendations

    Baljeet Sandhu - The Lived Experience Movement

    The Privilege Café

    Jude Kelly – Desert Island Discs

    This episode was recorded remotely in August 2021.

    Get A ‘Proper’ Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

    Presented by: Kayleigh Mcleod. Series producer: Vicki Sutton. Editor: Beca Nia Music by: Tic Ashfield. Artwork by: Hoffi.

    You can follow Creative Cardiff on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to find out more about our work or join the Creative Cardiff network.

    • 31 min
    #2. Evolving your creative career

    #2. Evolving your creative career

    In the second episode of the third series of Get a ‘Proper’ Job, host Kayleigh Mcleod talks to Jessica Dunrod, a translator, author, activist and director of the only black owned translation firm in the UK; as well as the creative producer, award winning filmmaker, cameraman and editor Jonny Campbell, who also has a background in architecture. They discuss their eclectic career portfolios, transferable skills and the evolution of their creative careers.

    Links and more information


    Outstanding by Jessica Dunrod
    Jessica Dunrod’s Go Fund Me page
    Ambassadora
    The doll test
    How might screen-based media enable people to better engage with their built environment and meaningfully contribute to its design?

    Guest recommendations


    Enterprise team at Cardiff University
    Canva

    This episode was recorded remotely in August 2021.

    Get A ‘Proper’ Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

    Presented by: Kayleigh Mcleod. Series producer: Vicki Sutton. Editor: Beca Nia Music by: Tic Ashfield. Artwork by: Hoffi.

    You can follow Creative Cardiff on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to find out more about our work or join the Creative Cardiff network.

    • 24 min
    #1. The future of jobs: TikTok for business

    #1. The future of jobs: TikTok for business

    In the first episode of season three of Get A 'Proper' Job host Kayleigh Mcleod talks to Kayed Mohamed-Mason, a Tik Tok apprentice for Cardiff-based advertising agency S3 advertising and Rebecca Campbell Managing Partner for Agency Development at S3 Advertising about the future of work in the creative and cultural industries. Particularly, new types of roles which we might see in the ever-evolving digital landscape.

    Links and more information


    S3 Advertising website
    How to stay on top of emerging tech trends - Nesta
    The Creative Digital Skills Revolution – Creative Industries policy and Evidence Centre
    Kayed’s TikTok account Kill em with Kayedness
    S3 TikTok account
    Gender neutral makeup brand – Vulcan & Vixen
    Foster Wales

    Guest recommendations


    Institute of Practitioners in Advertising (IPA) Awards
    Adobe channels on TikTok

    This episode was recorded remotely in August 2021.

    Get A ‘Proper’ Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

    Presented by: Kayleigh Mcleod. Series producer: Vicki Sutton. Editor: Beca Nia Music by: Tic Ashfield. Artwork by: Hoffi.

    You can follow Creative Cardiff on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to find out more about our work or join the Creative Cardiff network.

    • 23 min
    #6: Exploring creativity in the new Welsh Curriculum

    #6: Exploring creativity in the new Welsh Curriculum

    In the final episode of season two of Get A 'Proper' Job host Kayleigh Mcleod talks to Kathryn Lewis, Strategic Lead for curriculum reform and expressive arts at the Central South Education consortium and Music Technologist, Composer and Sound Designer Alex Rees, who is an Arts Council Creative Agent and host of the Creative Learning podcast, about the new Welsh curriculum with a focus on the Expressive Arts.

    This episode was recorded remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions in August 2020.


    The Donaldson review 
    The Curriculum for Wales and free educational tools and materials
    Creative Learning podcast

    Get A ‘Proper’ Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

    Presented by: Kayleigh Mcleod. Series producer: Vicki Sutton. Studio engineer & editor: Ffion Clarke. Music by: Tic Ashfield. Artwork by: Hoffi.

    You can follow Creative Cardiff on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to find out more about our work or join the Creative Cardiff network.

    • 32 min
    #5 – Starting a creative business

    #5 – Starting a creative business

    In the fifth episode of season two of Get A 'Proper' Job host Kayleigh Mcleod talks to Prateeksha Pathak, a postgraduate researcher at Cardiff University and a participant on the entrepreneur scheme, Ymlaen! and Claire Parry-Witchell, Student Enterprise Business Mentor at Cardiff University about the importance of developing entrepreneurship to the future of the creative industries.

    This episode was recorded remotely due to COVID-19 restrictions in August 2020.


    Ymlaen! scheme
    A Covid-19 boom in student start-ups? - Claire’s Parry-Witchell 
    Business Wales support
    Rabble Studio
    Coworking Collective
    IPSE
    Kashmir Untold archive
    Creative Wales
    Wales Arts Review

    Get A ‘Proper’ Job is made by city network Creative Cardiff, with and for, the creative community.

    Presented by: Kayleigh Mcleod. Series producer: Vicki Sutton. Studio engineer & editor: Ffion Clarke. Music by: Tic Ashfield. Artwork by: Hoffi.

    You can follow Creative Cardiff on Twitter, Instagram, Facebook and LinkedIn to find out more about our work or join the Creative Cardiff network.

    • 29 min

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