With the experience of being a final year bachelor student of jewellery design course in London, I have had different opportunities to engage with professions within the jewellery as well as fashion industry. As the university provides some collaborative programs with different companies or organizations, such as Swarovski and London Craft week, students or graduates have more connections with the creative industries in the UK. Those connections, in my opinion, they do help graduates or students with their engagement with the creative industries.
However, do these experiences help them develop their connections with the creative industry so they could continue contributing their values? How can the creative industry help those graduates to find the way they could show their values and the space they can find the sense of belonging?