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Taster sessions
See examples of our taster sessions below and the activities you can get involved in.
Accounting and Finance
Sustainable and Ethical Investment Dilemma Seminar: Evaluating Defence Sector Investments within FTSE 100 Firms
Location: University Square Stratford (USS)
Step into the world of financial decision-making at UEL. In this interactive session, you will take on the role of an investment committee member, exploring an ethical dilemma linked to real-world investing. Working in small groups, you will decide whether a FTSE 100 defence and security company aligns with sustainable investment principles, considering ESG (Environmental, Social, and Governance) factors. Guided by an academic, you will apply ethical frameworks to reach a collective decision, reflecting UEL’s Careers First approach and offering practical insights into professional investment thinking.
Animation and Games Design
Playing with Stories! An Introduction to Animation and Game Design
Location: Docklands campus
Discover how creative ideas develop into structured concepts for games and animation. In this interactive session, you’ll be introduced to our three-year Animation and Game Design degree and experience how we teach creative development.
Through a series of practical exercises, you’ll use random prompts and lateral thinking techniques to generate narrative ideas for both game and animation contexts. You’ll then create a short storyboard to visualise one idea as either a game concept or an animation plan. You’re welcome to bring your portfolio to share your work and explore how your skills could develop on the course.
Architecture, Visual Arts, Interior Design and Product Design
Postcodes – Community and unity
Location: Docklands Campus
Explore your creativity in our award-winning department. The session begins with a talk and tour of our facilities, followed by a one-to-one portfolio workshop to help you refine your work.
You will then collaborate with other students to create a shared community artwork using a range of media, including oil paint, graphite, pen and coloured pencil. The project explores your artistic journey and future ambitions.
You’ll meet current students and gain insight into life in the department. By the end of the session, you will have strengthened your portfolio, developed practical skills across different media, and experienced creative collaboration in a professional studio environment.
Biochemistry and Biotechnology
Explore Bioscience in action
Location: Stratford campus
Begin with a guided tour of our bioscience laboratories at our Stratford Health Campus, where you’ll see the specialist equipment our students use every day.
You’ll learn how our facilities support teaching and research in biomedical science, biochemistry and biotechnology. The session ends with a hands-on practical activity, giving you insight into experimental techniques, problem-solving and what it’s really like to study bioscience at university.
Business Management
Crisis Management Boardroom Simulation
Location: University Square Stratford (USS)
Step into the role of a company’s executive team during a live crisis simulation. You will be assigned a senior leadership position, such as Chief Executive Officer (CEO), Chief Financial Officer (CFO) or HR Director.
Working against the clock, you must respond to a major crisis, such as a public scandal affecting the company’s reputation or a supply chain breakdown. The academic will act as chairperson and introduce unexpected developments, including budget cuts or legal complications, to reflect real-world pressures. You will develop and present a response plan as a leadership team.
Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science
Laboratory Chemistry and Pharmaceutical Science in action
Location: Stratford campus
Explore our state-of-the-art chemistry and pharmaceutical science laboratories and see how students use industry-standard facilities to build essential scientific skills.
During the tour, you’ll learn how practical teaching prepares students for careers in science and healthcare. You’ll then take part in a hands-on session, applying core chemistry and pharmaceutical principles while developing laboratory techniques, understanding safety procedures, and strengthening analytical thinking.
Computer Science and AI
Let's Build an App Together
Location: Docklands campus
Discover what it takes to build an app from scratch at our University App Challenge at Docklands. Working in teams, you’ll design, code and pitch an innovative app idea in a Dragon’s Den-style competition.
Guided by our teaching team, you’ll experience a fast-paced, real-world environment that develops problem-solving and entrepreneurial thinking. You’ll also meet current students and see how creativity and collaboration shape projects in the Computing and Digital Technologies department. By the end of the session, you’ll have practical experience in app development and a clearer understanding of the skills needed for a career in computing.
Counselling
The Fifth Force of Psychotherapy: Social Justice in Therapeutic Practice
Location: Stratford campus
Social Justice is fast becoming the fifth force in counselling and psychotherapy based on the understanding that what our clients bring to therapy is often intertwined with their lived experiences of social injustices and health inequalities within the wider society. To be effective in our clinical practice, mental health professionals must be willing and able to work with clients who wellbeing and mental health are impacted by lived experiences. This interactive session will engage you in considering your personal culture, belief system and socio-political stance as an essential part of your journey to occupy the role of Therapist.
Criminology
Why is white collar crime frequently treated as less serious than street crime, despite the fact that it often results in significantly greater economic, social, and long-term systemic harm to individuals, institutions, and society as a whole?
Location: University Square Stratford (USS)
Explore how harm, power, and accountability are addressed within the criminal justice system. Through high profile case studies, including the collapse of Lehman Brothers and the BHS pension scandal, you will engage with the types of debates and case analyses used throughout your studies at UEL. The session develops critical thinking, judgment, and analytical reasoning by encouraging you to question how legal and regulatory responses reflect the real impact of different forms of crime. These are core skills you will develop as a UEL student and apply across the modern working world.
Digital Media and Communication and Sports Journalism
Ways of Seeing: Exploring Perspective in Storytelling
Location: Docklands campus
Explore how perspective shapes the stories we tell across digital media, communication and sports journalism.
In this interactive session, you’ll examine how viewpoint influences meaning and audience response. Through guided discussion and practical analysis, you’ll compare different perspectives and consider how stories are framed and interpreted. You’ll develop a more critical and creative approach to visual storytelling, gaining skills to inform, engage and influence audiences in today’s fast-moving media environment.
Education
Unlocking Creativity: Approaches to Teaching and Learning
Location: Stratford
This hands-on workshop is designed for you to experience innovative approaches to your studies, combining play, exploration, and collaboration. Through fun, thought-provoking activities, you’ll discover how creativity enhances learning and how you can apply these techniques in your studies and beyond. Whether you're passionate about education, SEN, and early childhood, or simply curious about new ways of thinking, this session will inspire and challenge you. Come ready to experiment, collaborate, and think outside the box!
Engineering and Built Environment
Solving the problems of the future with engineering solutions
Location: Docklands campus
Discover how engineering and construction shape the world around us. Join a talk about our award-winning department, tour our specialist facilities and take part in hands-on activities that develop your design, building and problem-solving skills.
You’ll explore key industry skills, learn about career pathways in engineering and the built environment, and meet current students to gain insight into life in the department. By the end of the session, you’ll have practical experience and a clearer understanding of future study and career opportunities.
Events, Hospitality, Tourism
Behind the Scenes: Managing a Live International Sports Event Crisis Simulation
Location: University Square Stratford (USS)
This hands-on session provides you with a taste of how professionals respond when things do not go according to plan. Set around an imagined live event, you will work in teams covering logistics, public relations, operations, and hospitality to manage a fast-moving crisis. As new challenges are introduced, you will adapt your response, make decisions under pressure, and communicate clearly as a group. At the University of East London, this kind of practice-based learning helps you build confidence, teamwork, and problem solving skills that employers value, preparing you for real workplace environments across events, business, and related industries.
Fashion
Discover Fashion: Innovation, Creativity and Industry Insights
Location: Docklands campus
Step into the fashion industry and discover how creativity, innovation and technology shape professional practice. You’ll tour our specialist facilities, including sewing studios, textile print workshops, machine workrooms and our historical garment and magazine archive.
Guided by academics and technicians, you’ll see how ideas develop from concept to finished collection and how creativity connects with business and culture. Bring your portfolio to receive advice on presenting your creative identity and technical skills in line with industry expectations. You’ll leave with practical insight into career pathways and client-facing opportunities.
Filmmaking
Looking at the Stars: How to Generate Brilliant Ideas in Filmmaking
Location: Docklands campus
Join our filmmaking team for a practical session focused on generating and developing original film ideas. Through guided exercises, you’ll create a strong story concept in under an hour and explore how filmmakers shape ideas into structured narratives.
By applying professional idea-development techniques, you’ll strengthen your storytelling skills and leave with a clear concept you can continue to develop as you begin your studies. You’re welcome to bring your portfolio to share your work, discuss your ideas and explore how your skills could grow on the course.
Global Development
What is your role in social change?
Location: Stratford campus
Explore the core ideas of Global Development, with a focus on sustainable development and social change.
In this interactive session, you’ll examine what social change means and consider global challenges such as inequality and sustainability. Through discussion and activities, you’ll reflect on your own role in creating change and discover how Global Development links academic study with real-world impact.
Law
The Criminal Justice System and the Threat to Jury Trials
Location: University Square Stratford (USS)
This session explores how the criminal justice system is changing and what this means for the future of jury trials. You will examine pressures such as efficiency, cost, public confidence, and the growing use of alternative processes, asking whether jury trials remain fit for purpose in the modern legal landscape. Through real examples and contemporary debates, you will consider issues of fairness, access to justice, and democratic participation. As a prospective student at the University of East London, this session reflects the critical, questioning approach you will develop, preparing you to analyse complex legal challenges and their real-world impact.
Medical Physiology
Experience Medical Physiology through practical learning
Location: Stratford campus
Begin with a guided tour of our high-tech bioscience laboratories and discover how students study the human body at university level.
You’ll see how specialist equipment is used to investigate body systems and their functions. The session includes a practical activity focused on key concepts in medical physiology, allowing you to apply theory in a hands-on setting and experience how we teach this subject area.
Midwifery
Develop your midwifery skills through virtual reality
Location: Stratford campus
Explore our Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub, designed to replicate a real healthcare environment.
You’ll take part in interactive skills workshops, including virtual reality demonstrations using Lucina and Baby Luna – lifelike manikins that simulate childbirth in a safe and realistic setting. The session gives you practical insight into clinical training and how simulation prepares students for professional healthcare practice.
Music
Kickstart Your Music Career at UEL
Location: University Square Stratford (USS)
Take your first step into the professional music industry and explore how creativity becomes a career.
Working in our industry-standard Black Box studios and live rooms, you’ll gain hands-on experience in music production, songwriting, performance, sound design, mixing and mastering. Guided by expert staff, you’ll use professional equipment to understand the creative and technical processes behind producing music. By the end of the session, you’ll have developed your skills, built confidence in your sound and gained insight into pathways into the music industry.
Nursing
Practice real nursing techniques in our Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub
Location: Stratford campus
Begin with a guided tour of our state-of-the-art Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub at the Stratford Health Campus.
You’ll then take part in clinical skills workshops designed to reflect real healthcare scenarios. Activities include urine testing, setting up infusion lines, making hospital beds, venepuncture, and measuring blood pressure, pulse and temperature. The session offers practical insight into how we prepare students for professional clinical practice.
Occupational Therapy
Occupational Therapy in Context: Practical Skills Session in our Mock Community Flat
Location: Stratford Campus
Experience the real-world role of an occupational therapist in this hands-on session based in our purpose-built mock community flat within the Hospital and Primary Care Training Hub.
Designed to reflect everyday living environments, the space allows you to explore how occupational therapists assess needs, adapt environments and support independent living. You’ll take part in practical activities focused on functional assessments, environmental adaptations and daily living aids. Guided by experienced practitioners, you’ll learn how occupational therapists identify barriers and tailor interventions to improve independence, wellbeing and quality of life.
Pharmacology
Applied Pharmacology practical session
Location: Stratford campus
Begin with a guided tour of our state-of-the-art bioscience laboratories at the Stratford Health Campus.
You’ll see how current students use advanced equipment as part of their studies and learn how practical lab work supports scientific training. After the tour, you’ll take part in a pharmacology-based practical session alongside other prospective students, giving you hands-on insight into how medicines are studied and tested in a university setting.
Podiatry
Podiatry Techniques in Practice: Professional Skills Session
Location: Stratford Campus
Explore the role of podiatry in this hands-on specialist foot care session.
You’ll learn how podiatrists support mobility and wellbeing by assessing and treating common foot and lower-limb conditions. Through demonstrations and supervised practical activities, you’ll explore key assessment methods, use professional equipment and observe common treatment techniques. The session highlights the vital role podiatry plays across hospital and primary care settings.
Psychology
Understanding human experience
Location: Stratford campus
Discover how psychology explores what shapes who we are and why we behave the way we do.
In this interactive session, you’ll experience different research methods used to investigate human behaviour and experience. Activities range from discussion-based approaches to exploring how brain activity can be measured. The session offers insight into how psychologists study the mind and apply scientific methods to understand people.
Public Health
Learn how to raise awareness on major UK health risks
Location: Stratford
Join your future Public Health cohort for an interactive workshop focused on raising awareness of major UK health risks.
Working in groups, you’ll analyse a case study to identify key public health messages and priorities. You’ll then collaborate to design clear, targeted messaging aimed at improving awareness and prevention. The session offers insight into how public health professionals develop campaigns that inform communities and promote healthier behaviours.
Social and Community Work
So, you think she was born that way?' The psychosocial approach to what makes us who we are
Location: Stratford campus
Challenge common myths about what shapes who we are in this interactive session.
You’ll explore how our inner experiences and social environments influence identity and behaviour, and consider how these factors combine to make each person unique. The session links these ideas to topics studied in Psychosocial Studies and highlights how they connect to academic interests and future career pathways.
Sport and Exercise Science
Inside the CASES Lab: Applied Sport Science
Location: Docklands campus
Discover how science drives athletic performance in this hands-on Sport and Exercise Science session held in our CASES-accredited laboratory at Sports Dock.
You’ll work with industry-standard equipment and experience testing methods used by sport scientists, coaches and performance analysts. Guided by expert staff, you’ll take part in live demonstrations and supervised practical activities, including physiological testing, biomechanical assessment, movement analysis and performance monitoring. You’ll explore how data is collected, interpreted and applied to improve training, recovery and athletic development.
Sport PE and Development & Sport Coaching and Performance
Performance Analysis workshop
Location: Docklands campus
Experience community-focused sports coaching in this practical session led by coaches from UEL and the West Ham United Foundation.
Designed for aspiring coaches and those interested in sport’s role in local communities, the workshop explores inclusive coaching methods, leadership approaches and practical techniques. You’ll take part in interactive drills, demonstrations and small-group activities that develop communication skills, player development strategies and approaches to creating positive learning environments.
Sport Rehabilitation
Learn about the practical roles and responsibilities of a sports rehabilitator
Location: Docklands campus
Develop practical skills in sports taping techniques used in injury prevention, rehabilitation and performance support.
You’ll learn the key principles of effective taping, including selecting appropriate materials and applying the correct tension. Through supervised practice, you’ll apply taping methods for common injuries such as ankle sprains, knee support and wrist stabilisation. The session also gives you the opportunity to speak with our academic team and ask questions about studying at UEL.
Teacher Training
How do we learn? Play and Phonics in Primary Education
Location: Stratford campus
Explore two core elements of primary education: play-based learning and phonics.
You’ll examine why play is essential to children’s development and how it supports learning in the classroom. The session also introduces phonics, demonstrating how children link sounds to letters to read unfamiliar words. Through practical examples, you’ll gain insight into early literacy teaching and primary education practice.
What are taster sessions?
Short subject-based sessions for undergraduate offer holders. They give you a feel for your course and how you’ll be taught.
Who can attend?
- Undergraduate offer holders
- Applicants deciding on their firm or insurance choice
What will happen on the day?
- A sample lecture or workshop
- Subject-specific activities
- Time to ask questions
(Content varies by subject.)
When and where?
- Dates and times are shown when you book
- Sessions take place on campus
- Location details are sent after booking