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2018 Arts Ambassador Molly Adams reflects on interacting with the arts in a university environment and her goal of encouraging interdisciplinary creative collaboration over the following academic year.<\/p>\n

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When reflecting on how I became involved with Arts at the University of Southampton<\/a>, it’s important to realise that being paid for working in the arts sector was not an opportunity I expected to have as a student. Before this internship, the arts were something I felt passionate about with very little hope of making a career for myself.<\/p>\n

Intellectually, I don’t see the point in settling in one discipline, but increasingly students are encouraged to prioritise employability, something that felt counterproductive to my actual interests. As an English and History<\/a> student, interdisciplinary work is a crucial part of my everyday life. Interacting with different people with different mind-sets is one of the greatest opportunities we have as university students and even better, it\u2019s a brilliant way to get involved with the arts.<\/p>\n

From my academic work within multiple humanities disciplines to my personal work on comics and graphic novels, I deeply value the role of different skill sets and approaches in the arts. This year, my goal is to show students that choosing a non-arts degree is not closing a door to the arts, especially at the University of Southampton, and to work on encouraging creative collaboration between students of all disciplines.<\/p>\n

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Arts Ambassadors from L to R: Ben McQuigg, Annette Warner, Hannah Teague, Molly Adams<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n

Arts Ambassadors is a paid opportunity, supported by the\u00a0<\/em>Careers and Employability<\/a>\u00a0Service\u2019s Excel Southampton Internship programme, University of Southampton.<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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