Tamara Kanner

An innovative approach to research applications

I chose the study programme because I wanted to study Media and Business at a university that understands the needs of students going into the current job market whilst maintaining a strong research background. I feel that sometimes education is either immensely practical or immensely research heavy. The Media and Business program takes both to provide students with the relevant knowledge to do both effectively. 

Wide Variety of Courses

In the Media and Business programme I can choose electives from a wide variety that allows me to complete my degree with the knowledge I chose. For example, I am really interested in business culture and digital news media (journalism, etc), and I have fellow classmates who are interested in digital fashion activism and data analytics, and those are all courses we can chose and take in the one-year Master. Even within the research-focused courses, you can pick topics that most appeal to you within a certain research style (qualitative/quantitative) and you are fully supported by professors to be creative within the topics. 

Supportive Professors 

I must say a highlight has been how supportive the teaching professors have been. They are interactive in lectures but especially seminars, and they truly care that students fully understand concepts and information, whilst also being open minded to creative ideas for presentation and essays as well as in discussions. This was immensely important for me when I started and it’s really pleasing to experience coming to class and feeling pride in your work that the professor creatively backed up.