Creative Hack – Application form

1Introduction
2About you
3Application questions
4Optional monitoring questions
5Check your answers

Creative Hack

A 3-day creative hackathon offering UAL’s students and recent graduates the opportunity to come together to learn, innovate, create and present their ideas to address the capital’s challenges and make London a better place to live, work and visit. Up to £3,000 worth of prize money awarded to the most innovative ideas and best team work!

Participant criteria

Students and graduates up to 2 years (BA and MA), from any UAL college or institution.

Privacy notice

Purpose and legal basis

The University of the Arts London (UAL) uses the personal data you provide in this form to assess your eligibility to take part in Creative Hack for this year. Processing of your personal data is necessary under GDPR basis Art.6(1)(f) ‘for the purposes of legitimate interests’.

Sharing

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Retention

The personal data of all applicants will be retained for the duration of the 2026 programme plus 6 years before being anonymised for future statistical reporting.

Other information

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Read and agree to the privacy notice(Required)

The questions in this section will be used by the selectional panel to determine whether you should be selected to participate in UAL's Creative Hack.

The criteria for selection is based on:

• How connected the theme is to your practice or career journey / aspirations.

• The proposed benefits received from attending.

• What you can contribute to and learn from a team.

• Creating diverse teams across themes (e.g. mixed colleges, courses, year groups, skills etc).

Creative Attributes Framework

More information on Creative Attributes Framework (CAF).

Which Creative Attributes reflect a key strength of yours? (Select 1-3)(Required)
Which Creative Attributes would you like to develop further? (Select 1-3)(Required)

For monitoring purposes and to provide additional support where available, it is optional to answer the following questions.

Selection to take part in the Creative Hack is not based on your responses to these questions.

How did you hear about this opportunity?
Would you like to sign up for our monthly Careers & Employability email newsletter?
Can UAL's Careers & Employability department contact you by email about your employment status within 18 months after you have graduated from your UAL course?

Career readiness assessment

Are you or your business currently registered? (e.g. self-employed, sole trader, limited company — select “No” if not self employed)

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