The SCDM Advisory Boards provide a forum for engagement between the school and industry professionals. The boards bring together industry leaders and senior academic staff to discuss developments across relevant sectors and their implications for teaching, research and professional practice.
Through these discussions, London Met gains insight into current industry trends, skills required and emerging areas of practice. This helps ensure that we remain informed by developments in the sectors our graduates enter.
The advisory boards also support the school in strengthening its professional networks and maintaining ongoing dialogue with industry partners across different subject areas.
Industry Advisory Board (IAD)
The Industry Advisory Board supports programmes across Communications Technology and Mathematics (CTM) and Computer Science and Applied Computing (CSA). The board brings together professionals from industry to share insights into current sector developments, skills needs and emerging areas of practice.
Associated areas:
- CTM - Communications Technology and Mathematics
- CSA - Computer Science and Applied Computing
Media Advisory Board (MAB)
The Media Advisory Board brings together industry professionals working across media, creative and digital sectors. The board supports discussions around developments in the media landscape and how these inform teaching and programme development.
Associated areas:
- CTD - Creative Technologies and Digital Media
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Media Advisory Board (MAB)
The Media Advisory Board (MAB) brings together professionals from across the media and creative industries, including representatives from news organisations, film production, journalism, social media marketing, fashion and publishing. The board meets quarterly with academic leadership from the school to discuss developments across the media landscape and the implications for creative education and professional practice.
These discussions provide insight into changes across the media and creative industries, including evolving production practices, digital media trends and the skills required by employers. Board members share perspectives on industry expectations of graduates, emerging creative workflows and the professional competencies needed to work across contemporary media environments.
Through this engagement, the school is able to maintain an ongoing dialogue with industry practitioners and ensure that programmes remain informed by developments across the sectors our graduates enter.
The board also supports conversations around employability and collaboration between the school and industry partners, including opportunities for guest lectures, industry engagement, professional insight and other forms of collaboration that connect students with current industry practice.
Associated Programmes
The Media Advisory Board provides input across programmes within the following area:
Creative Technologies and Digital Media (CTD)
- Music Technology and Production BSc
- Digital Media BA
- Film and Television Production BA
- Film and Television Studies BA
- Fashion Marketing and Journalism BA
- Games Animation, Modelling and Effects BSc
- Journalism, Film and Television Studies BA
- Journalism BA
- Media and Communications BSc
- Media and Marketing BA
- Digital Media MA
- Documentary Film Production MA
Media Advisory Board Meetings
The board meets on a quarterly basis to discuss developments across the media and creative industries and opportunities for collaboration between the School and industry partners.
Previous Meetings
- Media Advisory Board Meeting – 24/3/2026
- Media Advisory Board Meeting – 2/12/2025
Industry Advisory Board (IAB)
The Industry Advisory Board (IAB) brings together senior professionals from organisations working across banking, artificial intelligence, technology start-ups and software development. The board meets quarterly with academic leadership from the school to discuss developments across the computing and technology sectors. These discussions provide insight into emerging industry trends and the evolving skills required by employers.
The board provides a forum for industry representatives to share perspectives on areas such as developments in artificial intelligence and cybersecurity, expectations of graduates entering the sector and the technologies and tools commonly used in professional practice. Through this engagement, the school is able to maintain an ongoing dialogue with industry and ensure that programmes remain informed by developments across the sectors our graduates enter.
The board also supports discussions around opportunities for collaboration between the school and industry partners, including internship and placement opportunities, industry-led student projects and other forms of engagement that strengthen links between academic study and professional practice.
Associated Programmes
The Industry Advisory Board provides input across programmes within the following areas:
Communications Technology and Mathematics (CTM)
- Computer Systems Engineering and Robotics BEng
- Electronic Engineering and Internet of Things BEng
- Computer Networking and Cloud Security BEng
- Artificial Intelligence and Robotics BEng
- Biomedical Engineering BEng
- Mathematics BSc
- Robotics with Artificial Intelligence MSc
- Computer Networking and Cyber Security MSc
- Computer Networking and Cyber Security with Work Experience MSc
- Applied Cyber Security and Cloud Technology MSc
- Cryptography MSc
Computer Science and Applied Computing
- Business Computer Systems (Top Up) BSc
- Computer Science BSc
- Computing BSc
- Computer Networking and Cyber Security BSc
- Cyber Security and Forensic Computing (Top-up) BSc
- Data Science BSc
- Digital Forensics and Cyber Security BSc
- Games Programming BSc
- Software Engineering (Top-up) BEng
- Artificial Intelligence MSc
- Cyber Security MSc
- Data Analytics MSc
