Combining BCII with your core degree

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Unknown Speaker 0:09
I went to Abbotsleigh school.

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I graduated back in 2014.

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And then I studied a Bachelor of Business
and Bachelor of BCII at UTS.

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I wrapped up at UTS about a year and a half
ago.

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And now I'm working full time as an analyst
at Accenture in the financial services industry.

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Unknown Speaker 0:36
So I decided to study BCII with business because

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I guess I always had a bit of an interest
in entrepreneurship.

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And studying regular business degree obviously
gives you a great foundation for kind of all

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those different areas, but I think BCII was
really where it kind of got exciting for me.

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I'm actually quite curious about other areas,
obviously working in a transdisciplinary degree.

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And I definitely say that when I was in high
school, I obviously had areas I was interested

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in, but I wasn't necessarily particularly
good at one thing.

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I kind of liked to have a bit of my foot in
a lot of different areas.

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So something like BCII was going to keep me
interested and really, I guess in tune with

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a lot of different other areas by studying
a transdisciplinary degree, so there you go.

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Unknown Speaker 1:35
Life Changing, mind blowing, and uplifting,

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or inspiring.

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I'd have to say those three words because
it's definitely one of the most incredible

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experiences that I have kind of run with since
leaving school, and I came away from it with

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a really inspiring network of people, that
I studied with, and they continue to inspire

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me since leaving UTS, so I'd have to say,
those are the three words that I'd use.

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Unknown Speaker 2:15
Now that I'm out, kind of working full time

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in the real world, I have to say, it has never
really it didn't really resonate with me until

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I got out and kind of started working full
time.

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The nature of like real world problem solving,
I suppose they tell you that in BCII, and

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you do get to like interact with real life
clients and things like that.

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But now that I guess I'm kind of out on my
own.

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It makes me super grateful for those experiences
that I did have in BCII.

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Unknown Speaker 2:50
BCII really made me think quite differently

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about my business degree particularly because
I chose a marketing major now the marketing

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major at UTS does have quite a very strong
groupwork component to it, which, to many

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other business students was quite intimidating.

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But for a lot of the BCII business students,
group work was not overwhelming, it was not

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something that was kind of something that
people will look forward to rather than dreading.

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I think once you learn some really effective
collaboration styles and different methods

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that are taught and you put into practice
in BCII, it makes group work that much easier.

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And like I said, it's something you look forward
to so yeah, definitely really took me to the

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next level in business.

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Unknown Speaker 3:46
My favourite memory from BCII would have to

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be in my final fourth year industry innovation
projects.

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This was something that I feel I was so lucky
to experience that particular time I was lucky

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enough to work with Merivale - transforming
nightlife for 18 to 25 year olds.

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And at that particular point in time it was
there were quite contentious issues being

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discussed around the lockout laws and how
I guess Sydney nightlife had taken a bit of

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a blow.

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And so there were a lot of kind of complexities
behind the problem that we were trying to

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uncover.

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And I suppose from Merivale's perspective,
I understand what that particular demographic

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was looking for when they were going out on
a night out and I guess I did fall into that

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particular target segment.

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So there was a lot of research involved but
it was honestly so much fun.

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Got to really kind of cement ourselves in
the Merivale team.

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And funnily enough, this was quite a good
stepping stone in my final year of uni before

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moving into consulting the following year
because it was really a great lesson in client

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relationship management and, you know, building
expectations, try to take the client on a

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journey and co create something.

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So at the end, it's really an outcome that
everyone is after, and obviously solves the

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problem at the crux of it.

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So, yeah, that was definitely my most memorable
experience.

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And I still catch up very regularly with that
group of people that I did that project with.

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Unknown Speaker 5:41
Definitely been, obviously the incredible

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lessons and methodologies and practices that
I've taken away from the degree but it would

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also have to be the incredible network that
I've kind of developed over the course of

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the four year degree, the BCII degree at UTS.

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BCII is quite a unique course, I guess, in
that you're working with all these different

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transdisciplinary people on completely different
problems spaces all the time, you get to understand

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the nuances of how each person works and really
understand their skill sets and where they

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kind of shine in different areas, very different
areas necessarily to what you might be interested

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in or you excel at.

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But just being able to kind of work alongside
these people, you learn the kind of intrinsics

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of how they actually work.

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And I must say now, having worked with those
people, and still kind of remaining quite

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close with that network once I've left.

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It's awesome to follow the progress that they've
made since graduating and being able to collaborate

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on many different things as well once leaving
uni.

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Unknown Speaker 7:02
I'd have to say, studying combined degree

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was extremely useful for me as I was seeking
jobs towards the end of uni.

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BCII is absolutely something that stands out
on the resume.

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And you'll often find that a lot of people
who I guess, do kind of work at these really

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interesting jobs that you might be trying
to seek.

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They're working at the intersection of knowledge,
they're working in somewhat of a transdisciplinary

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nature.

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They might have studied, maybe not BCII, but
they have these two kind of different areas

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of knowledge or maybe multiple that come together
and have an interesting way of bringing new

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things to the table.

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So BCII in itself, once I kind of explained
it to people as I was throughout the recruitment

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process, they found that extremely, extremely
useful.

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In a mindset, it's more of a mindset, really
then a skill set, as doesn't matter what your

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core foundation of knowledge is, as long as
you are open and you know how to kind of collaborate

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across different disciplines that in itself
is an extremely valuable and useful skill

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once you have left uni.

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Unknown Speaker 8:25
To other students who might be thinking about

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studying BCII with business, it's an extremely
useful combination.

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I have to say I was really interested in entrepreneurship
before starting uni.

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However, once I actually got into BCII, I
came across this term intrapreneurship where

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people might be doing, you know, some really
game changing innovative things but within

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a huge organisation.

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And so I'd have to say that if that's something
that interests you, or even just entrepreneurship

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in general, it absolutely is a great combination,
and you'll take a lot from the experience.

 

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Hey, my name is Julia.

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I've always really loved English and drama
growing up.

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So when I went to university, I really wanted
to both have the opportunity to explore that

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further, but I wasn't quite sure what I wanted
to do.

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So I wanted to do as much as possible, which
is why I decided to do a communications degree

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with a double major in PR and Media Arts Production.

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And then also do the Bachelor of Creative
Intelligence and Innovation as well.

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I decided to study the BCII and combine it
with my communications degree because I really

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wanted to add and enrich to what I was going
to learn in communications plus, like having

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a degree in innovation sounded pretty snazzy.

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And also, it was a relatively new degree,
when I first started it.

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I think they just had their first graduates
cohort.

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And the news that was coming out of it was
really cool.

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Like I remember my careers advisor just absolutely
raving about what it could mean and the opportunities

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that it could give me as somebody just starting
out their career.

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If I had to describe BCII in three words,
it would be driven, relevant and absolutely

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life changing.

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It's funny, even studying BCII actually helped
directly with my ability to succeed in my

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core degree and my communications degree.

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I know in particular, when we were doing group
assignments, and when we were having those

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more intricate kind of strategy and pitching
presentations.

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Having that, again, that knowledge, that ability
to think creatively, to explore that problem

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space and to work collaboratively in transdisciplinary
and multi-disciplinary team's totally changed

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the way I approached those assignments and
meant that I was able to deliver a product

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that was above standard.

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Something that really struck home for me over
these past four years with BCII is that in

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the future, I'm not only ever going to be
working with communications professionals,

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it's going to be transdisciplinary.

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We're going to have to work with people from
other disciplines who think in different ways,

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and to be able to bring that knowledge together,
create something new and then move forward

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with that.

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So I think without having the understanding
of transdisciplinary skills, that skill set

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and having learned that through BCII, it just
be another blocker to success.

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That's why learning transdisciplinary skills
I think is so important.

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I was lucky enough to be part of the first
honours cohort, so doing my honours in creative

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intelligence and innovation, which, to be
very honest, is as cool as it sounds.

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If you think it sounds cool I do.

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But I was able to take my passion for theatre
in the arts, and then completely explore that

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in this crazy cool way, with the help of the
faculty, my peers, and all this transdisciplinary

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skill set that I just built over the past
three, three and a half years.

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So I took that love, like brought in a bit
of resilience theory, got to travel to Geelong,

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made a verbatim script, wrote a little thesis
and then had this again, what I think was

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really fun, really cool and super interesting,
like something that I was super passionate

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about body of work at the end of it, that
you know, put a little bow on their's my honours,

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it's really fun.

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Most interesting project that I was involved
in was the industry innovation project we

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did in our fourth year, we were able to work
with an industry partner, again, like we do

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for most of the schools.

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But instead of it being within that two week
time frame, we actually were able to stretch

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it out for a few months, I found that really
cool to be able to dive in and explore their

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innovation strategies, how they thought, and
then how we could support that.

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Yeah, it was super interesting like working
with my fellow BCII team, getting to completely

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change both our mindset and theirs and then
to have this product at the end of it.

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Which would then help them promote and increase
innovation into the future.

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I'm working as a business designer for the
Australian arm of a global innovation consultancy.

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Which is really cool, to be honest, I didn't
think this would ever be something within

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my career trajectory.

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Like especially I was working in marketing
for the past three years throughout University.

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But the way it came about was actually through
BCII.

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Like the company I'm working at Business Models
Inc. did a workshop in class, I got a coffee

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with one of the facilitators because I was
just really intrigued towards what they do.

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And yeah, kind of all flowed on from there.

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But it's crazy to think about because without
BCII without that innovation skill set and

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without that transdisciplinary understanding,
where I've gone would be completely different.

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And I'm really fortunate that I did have that,
and that i am on the path I'm on today

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If you're thinking of combining BCII with
comms, you should definitely do it.

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Our future is changing so rapidly.

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And communications itself is in a constant
state of evolution like having the opportunities,

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the skill sets the chance to connect industry
partners and the peer group that you have

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in BCII will only ever enrich your understanding
of communications and the possibilities that

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you'll have in the future.

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So yeah, definitely do it would be my advice.

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I'm a bit biased though.

 

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Joel Meredith 0:10
So Hello, my name is Joel Meredith and I do

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a double degree in integrated product design
and creative intelligence and innovation.

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Joel Meredith 0:17
When I came out of high school in 2015, I

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graduated from the Scotts college I was definitely
focusing a lot around design technology.
a
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I enjoyed the whole major work I had so much
fun kind of developing that product over the

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course of 12 months that I thought I would
take it into my Educational Studies, which

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is why I elected to do the product design
and BCII double degree.

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Joel Meredith 0:46
So I decided to take on BCII as a double degree

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because I wanted to gain the additional skills
required to both understand these different

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kind of parts of the industry and more importantly
to be able to collaborate with different stakeholders

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in these projects moving forward as well.

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So I thought BCII would give me the communication
problem solving skills to be able to facilitate

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that.

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Joel Meredith 1:11
I feel like okay, if I was going to describe

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BCII in three words, definitely collaborative.

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That's it for me, like the biggest, biggest
like vain in BCII.

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Second most would be, I think, forward thinking.

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I don't know if that's gonna be allowed as
one word or two.

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But basically, I think all the ideas that
I see my peers coming up with always feel

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like they're ahead of the time, like, what's
it going to be in the future?

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Like, how are we going to innovate here or
iterate on this.

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So forward thinking is a big thing and definitely
the pedagogical on serendipitous, which is

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a term used throughout BCII and I think there
are like a lot of lovely little opportunities

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that you run into throughout the degree.

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So for me, collaborative, forward thinking
and serendipitous.

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I absolutely found BCII complimented my core
degree, even after the first, the very first

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winter school that I partook in.

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So I found, I guess like mapping the course
of my two degrees, I really found like I would

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learn these technical skill sets in product
design, which was fantastic, can't speak highly

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enough for that degree as well.

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But then I would kind of go and partake in
the BCII school.

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And I would come back with these kind of like
new perspectives.

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And I really found that as I was going through
projects, particularly in the later years

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of product design, I was able to apply these
different perspectives, these different worldviews

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and these different kind of workflows and
ways of approaching problems just through

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like the sheer of osmosis of hanging out with
all these other super switched on kids that

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were doing their own things in BCII and being
able to bring back some of those learnings

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and workflows into product design.

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I thought that was really nice.

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Joel Meredith 2:47
kind of elevated.

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I think it elevates like your technical skill
set.

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Because Product Design gives you the skills
to build things, and then BCII helped you

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apply those products to the real world.

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So I think for me, BCII was like the biggest
bridge between what I technically learned

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in product design and the real world, I think
if I hadn't have partaken in BCII, I might

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have, you know, still gotten like the technical
skillsets to get a design job, but I might

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not have necessarily understood as clearly
like, the role I was playing as a designer

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in the real world, and how my products, like
influence the things around me and I think

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that's a really fundamental shift that I can
definitely attribute towards BCII.

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Joel Meredith 3:30
Particularly for product design, it's important

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to learn transdisciplinary skills, because
so often we find product designers playing

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the role of stakeholder manager.

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So for me transdisciplinary skills at their
core are being able to communicate with people

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from different backgrounds, different mindsets
and different worldviews and bring them together

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and organise them in a way which promotes
like the maximum innovation and output or

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whatever that project might be.

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And my belief is that I think, like true innovation
and real innovation, this gets generated from

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The relationship between two people, I think
you can come up with X amount of innovation

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by yourself.

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And then, you know, just by adding one more
person to the team, you can come up with 10

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x innovation.

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And we'll always get generated from the blurred
lines between those two people in that relationship.

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So I think the better you are at communicating
with other people understanding where people

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are coming from, and having a grasp on these
transdisciplinary style skills, I think you

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can generate more innovation in your team.

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Joel Meredith 4:33
I think the most rewarding project that I

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worked on was, most recently we did our industry
innovation project, which is where you and

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a team of students partner up with a real
company and they kind of bring a challenge

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or issue that they're working on real time
and you help collaborate and iterate that

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with them.

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So we're working with a company called Live
education, who are responsible for you know,

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a bunch of life education in Australia.

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And you know, we developed something Initiative's
for them and then to see them, you know, kind

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of like, respond positively to those initiatives
and try and take them forward in the real

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world I think was positive because I felt
like in my core degree, at least while you

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design a lot of things, and make a lot of
products, often it kind of ends there at the

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end of the subject, which is, you know, normal
and expected but to actually take a BCII subject,

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perform work with a bunch of students, put
it out into the world and then see it kind

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of play out in real time and actually see
a real company benefit from it.

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I think that was like really rewarding and
a really nice stepping stone into like the

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workforce afterwards.

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Joel Meredith 5:41
So now I'm completing I'm halfway through

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my final year of BCII.

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I'm also working in my spare time so I work
for a company doing it's kind of like, it's

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half way between product design and BCII.

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So developing design systems and try to collaborate
between different stakeholders, giving them

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the design tools that they need to prototype
faster.

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And I'm also working for a startup as we're
working out of UTS startups as well.

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So it's been really nice seeing kind of like
the corporate and startup side, and how BCII

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can relate to both of those.

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Joel Meredith 6:19
In my opinion,BCII, like definitely provided

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me with skill sets that increase employability
a lot.

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I noticed like in all the internships I worked
across my degree, and then the roles that

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I'm in now, I think, in like, particularly
in the interview process, people will try

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and ask you questions to test like, how you
think and how you approach problems is a really

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common in you know, like, most roles, but
particularly product design ones, as well.

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And, I think I always felt like very comfortable
answering those questions, because in BCII

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I am so used to trying to think about things
outside the box.

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You're trying to think about how you can solve
things in a variety of different ways and

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you think about how you can leverage stakeholders
or other team members and I think when an

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employer sees that you are like a more employable
person, I think it's like a really important

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soft skill that you know comes straight out
of BCII and luckily applies to a tonne of

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different industries.

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Joel Meredith 7:16
I would recommend anybody looking, for me,

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maybe most likely got a bias that I found
product designers just like crushed it in

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BCII like excelled really well, because you
know, the basis of product design at UTS is

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like design thinking design methodologies.

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And the basis of BCII is like design thinking
and a lot of design methodologies.

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So I found like product designers happened
to do really well in BCII.

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And most importantly, product designers always
came back into product design with a bunch

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of really applicable skills that they could
use like very tangibly on their products with

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their teams.

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So not only do you get the kind of like technical
like design thinking skills, like how to approach

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problems, how to organise teams, like agile
methodologies, lean startup methodologies,

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you also get this kind of like more conceptual
world view on how product designers play a

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role in teams and how product designers play
a role in the real world.

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And I found looking at my peers and colleagues
that took the double degree path and didn't

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I did find on average, the students doing
the double degree appeared to do better in

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their final years of their product design,
because of these views and technical skill

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sets they could bring to the table as well.

 

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My name is Clancy, I do a Bachelor of Science
majoring in chemistry combined with Bachelor

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of creative intelligence and innovation.

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I have grown up my whole life on the Central
Coast.

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So I commute to uni by the train, which is
kind of exciting sometimes.

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I decided to pursue creative intelligence
and science.

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Mainly, when I was in high school, I would
speak to my career's advisor, and I would

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say, I like science, but I don't really want
to be a scientist.

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I don't know what I want to do.

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Whether I go to uni or whether I go to tafe,
or whether I work.

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And I said that I liked doing art, I love
listening to music and I love just doing lots

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of different stuff.

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So my careers advisor basically just said,
if you don't really know exactly what you

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want to do, then combine something that you
enjoy doing with this degree - BCII.

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And I was like, what is BCII?

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And she was like, honestly, I'm not sure.

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But previous students have liked it.

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So maybe you'll like it to.

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And I gave it a shot.

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I was very nervous going in.

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But in the first school on the first day,
I fell in love practically straightaway.

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Well, first off, I tell people, I'm studying
chemistry at university and they are like

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- oh yeh chemistry.

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And then I say I'm also studying BCII, creative
intelligence and innovation.

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And immediately people say, what, what is
the b?

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b?

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What?

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What is creative intelligence and innovation.

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People think maybe it's about AI or robots
or something.

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But I say it's about creative problem solving.

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It's about finding your inner creativity,
I suppose.

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So BCII for me, is very much about developing
myself into a person who can be fluid in any

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sort of environment and not just a work environment.

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It's teaching me how to be fluid in everyday
life as well.

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So how I can overcome challenges in a creative
way, and use those challenges to create something

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new and innovate it into a learning opportunity.

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The Bachelor of creative intelligence in innovation
complements my chemistry degree, mainly by

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letting me see chemistry and other aspects
of science in a different light.

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Not just from the perspective of research
and not just from the perspective of exploring

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the world around you.

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But it allows me to kind of bring in different
fields of education and imagination as well,

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when it comes to my studies.

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So, when I'm learning about organic chemistry,
for example, I'm not just thinking about all

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the processes that you have to learn and all
the synthesis that you have to learn.

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But I'm thinking about how can I use these
and what other aspects of my life and other

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people's lives will this impact with using
the knowledge that I've learned.

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In the laboratory, when doing synthesis of
drugs, for example, and different compounds,

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you have to be very efficient, and you have
to work really, really well with the equipment

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and also with your team partner as well.

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And we figured out a way to kind of streamline
the processes.

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And it was a bit like just making a recipe
I suppose, but seeing it from a different

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light, so instead of seeing it as doing an
organic synthesis, we saw it as kind of a

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game I suppose.

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So we turned it into like, how fast can we
do this using this different technique?

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And we figured out that we could do the synthesis
in a slightly different way to make it faster

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and we could use less materials and we got
to leave the lab an hour earlier I suppose.

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And plus we got to really enjoy, yeah.

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My favourite project in BCII would have to
be, there is a subject called past, present

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and future of innovation.

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And you learn about the conditions involved,
which facilitate creativity and innovation

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in individuals, but in groups as well.

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And we had to look into a specific creative
intelligence hero that we had.

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And I realised I didn't really have a creative
intelligence hero.

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And they had to be from our own discipline.

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And I was thinking, creative scientists who
innovate, immediately, I was like, oh, Elon

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Musk.

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And I was like, oh, but everyone does Elon
Musk.

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So it got me to really, really explore the
path that I want to follow after university

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and look at the leaders in that field and
how they use creativity.

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And I started to realise that practically
all people who are leaders in the scientific

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field are relatively creative and innovative
as well.

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And it made me very optimistic for the future,
I suppose.

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So that school was very transformative for
me because during the school, I kind of had

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this uplifting experience of like, I can be
very creative in science, very innovative

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in science.

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In the name BCII, its creative intelligence
and innovation.

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So people are immediately drawn towards it.

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One because it has a pretty fancy name, but
because they see the word, creative, or innovation,

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and they think, I'm a creative person.

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I would like to follow some sort of creative
future.

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I'd be a creative person or be a innovator.

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And there's other people that see it, and
they see the word creative and they think

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I'm not a creative person.

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I don't do art.

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I don't like music.

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I don't have really existential thoughts or
something.

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But BCII isn't necessarily for creative people.

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And it's not for innovators as well.

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It is for everybody.

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And it doesn't require a predisposition to
being creative, but it does require effort,

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I suppose.

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And it has to require some sort of motive
to be able to create and also to create change

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as well and to grow.

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You walk into the first day of BCII school,
no matter what school it is, and immediately

0:07:44.879,0:07:51.240
you're immersed in this environment, which
just uplifts you and allows you to kind of

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explore your own inner potential.

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And make you realise that the path that you
may be expected to go on isn't the path that

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you have to take.

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And you get to create your own future, really.

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So it's allowed me to create my own future
in science.

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Instead of thinking about just research or
just working in industry, it's allowed me

0:08:21.740,0:08:28.809
to think about how I can explore different
opportunities, maybe create a startup, explore

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completely different fields of science or
fields of science that don't necessarily really

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exist yet because they will exist in the future,
but we're not quite there yet.

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And maybe I can get a heads up on it and become
a leader in the field before the field even

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exists, I suppose.

 

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My name is Megha.

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I'm in my third year of studying a combined
Bachelor of Laws and Bachelor of creative

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intelligence and innovation.

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My background and sort of what school I went
to like based in Western Sydney, so I was

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like born and raised there.

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I went to Penrith selective High School, in
terms of what subjects I enjoyed and what

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I liked.

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I personally wasn't a big fan of science and
maths.

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I was really interested in the humanity side.

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So I studied a lot of history, I did both
ancient and modern history, I did society

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and culture and legal studies.

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Personally, I really enjoyed Legal Studies
and that's what led me to pursue law in University.

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To be completely honest, I actually hadn't
decided what I was going to study with my

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law degree up until the really last minute.

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So that was like options day.

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And I was going around to the different booths
at the stalls.

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And I had received a really convincing elevator
pitch from the BCII stall.

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And as I was going through the pitch, and
I was as I was listening, I realised that

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this degree is so different.

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And looking back I thought to myself, I was
like, it's so wonderfully wacky that I'd be

0:01:46.890,0:01:51.390
doing myself a disadvantage for not choosing
it.

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And at the end of the day, the driving factor
for me to choose it was the fact that I wanted

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to stand out.

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I wanted to be different from all the 10s
of Thousands of law students that are graduating

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across the state.

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And I knew the technical skills would make
me ready to enter the workforce.

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I would get that from my law degree, but it
was the soft skills that I wanted to improve

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on, I wanted to develop.

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And BCII really would make that happen for
me, like its entire degree based in collaboration,

0:02:23.750,0:02:32.600
problem solving, and BCII in itself really
embodied that for me.

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Words I would describe BCII with are - re-imaginative,
transformative and one specific BCII word

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is - chaordic.

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It's improved my confidence.

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So that constant collaboration, teamwork and
liaising with a bunch of people from different

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disciplines, has really given me the ability
to voice my opinions and engage in feedback.

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And I've been able to take that same confidence
and apply it in a law degree setting.

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So that would be, you know, feeling confident
to articulate my ideas and class discussions,

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participating in law competitions from mooting
to client interview and negotiation.

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BCII has really given me those soft skills
to really believe in myself and my self confidence.

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BCII has made me think differently about my
core degree is especially relevant in terms

0:03:47.959,0:03:51.840
of the extra curricula I do throughout my
law degree.

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So that would be the various competitions
such as mooting, witness examination, and

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in those situations, it's really integral
to think different to think in a way that

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your opponent wouldn't think about, you know,
have a range of different arguments that take

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different perspectives.

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And what BCII taught me is those skills essentially,
you know, we're not thinking inside the box,

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it's really taking all your assumptions that
you know about that specific problem or your

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client, putting a little box stepping outside
of it, and just viewing it from that perspective.

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And it really gives you an advantage when
you know your opponent is really is only doing

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a law degree and they've really been trained
in a specific way.

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And this BCII allows me to provide a different
perspective to you know, I guess client briefs.

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Why I think it's important to learn transdisciplinary
skills in my area.

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So essentially transdisciplinary is actually
referring to a different range of disciplines

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or faculties all working together in one group
or in one faculty.

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So I had, for example, in a group assignment
for BCII, I'd be working with students from

0:05:16.680,0:05:24.689
IT, from business, from health, from engineering,
and you know, it's a whole range of different

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perspectives in one group and you're working
on an assignment together.

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And so the skills that I've learnt from that
area and applying it into my law degree, has

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been really, really important for making me
future ready for when I enter the workforce.

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So, lawyers don't always work with lawyers
and you know, you'll be liaising with a bunch

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of clients with a bunch of different people
from different perspectives from different

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backgrounds and to be able to articulate what
you want in a way that they will understand

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is like important and it's so needed in the
industry at the moment.

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Even perspectives of innovation, legal, the
legal industry is constantly evolving, constantly

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changing and legal tech is an example of something
that's new, newly emerging and the perspectives

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and the things that we learned throughout
BCII especially in terms of creating change

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and driving innovation is something that really
gives you an advantage when you're going out

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there and looking for a job and, you know,
attending interviews, you have something different,

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something to talk about that other students
don't.

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The most rewarding aspects of my studies overall,
specifically in relation to BCII has been

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able to work consistently with industry partners.

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So throughout each school or most schools
actually, we've always had an assignment briefed

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by an industry partner.

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So for example, in my first year, first subject,
it was, City of Sydney, they gave us a problem

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and in our second week, we had to work together
in groups and find a solution.

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In my second year, it was MasterCard.

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In my third year, it's PwC.

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So, like such high profile industry partners
and really providing solutions to their problems

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is really cool.

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And it's super fun.

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And I guess it really sets you apart from
different from other students.

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And the fact that it's all done through like
a think tank simulation or a hackathon.

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I find it rewarding that it's quite different
from traditional forms of learning.

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So I'm really excited every time I come into
BCII school because I've just been doing lectures

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and tutorials in my law degree, and I get
to try something new and immerse myself in

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a new style of learning and I find that really
really fun and really rewarding.

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So doing a combined degree with Law and BCII
is in itself already giving me a competitive

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edge.

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BCII is such an invaluable degree in itself,
because of things that you learn about, already

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make you different, it already makes you stand
out from the thousands of other graduates

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who you know are just doing normal things
like business or comms or, you know, this

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traditional forms of learning and with law
to combine this innovative, this really creative

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form of learning, it really sets you apart.

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It gives you a competitive edge in your, you
know, interviews or in your recruitment process.

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Specifically the industry partners that you're
constantly working with, the hackathon simulation

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style learning.

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It's super, super practical, super future
focused and it really makes you like adaptive,

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it makes you agile for the workplace of the
future, which is, especially in law constantly

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evolving, constantly changing, especially
with things like automation and AI coming

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into the field as well.

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It's definitely challenging, it really stretches
you and pushes you to your limits.

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And sometimes I think, gosh, I really want
a break right now, like I could do with a

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month long break.

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But, you know, at the end of the day, I look
back and I think, Wow, I've grown so much

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in the past, like two and a half years.

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And it's not even just as a person but as
a student.

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My learning has changed and grown so much
and I honestly couldn't have done that without

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BCII.

 

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So I took some time away from uni to have
a good think about what I actually wanted

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to get out of studying at University and within
about six months I settled on midwifery, I

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expected that it would be a really nice balance
of challenge, but also something that I could

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really become invested in and care about day
to day.

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And so I looked at studying midwifery at UTS.

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I applied for BCII, as well as Midwifery is
fairly simple.

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It was the name that grabbed me.

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So I'd always been really creative and innovation
interested me a lot.

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So when I saw that it was offered as a course
at UTS, I thought, why not apply?

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And I didn't know that much about it.

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It was a really new course at the time.

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I think my year group was only the third year
to be offered the course.

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And so I didn't really know what to expect
but I was interested in enough in it to give

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it a go.

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So during my BCII studies, we learned about
a concept called T shaped knowledge, which

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is essentially like a capital T. And that's
the way that I can best describe how BCII

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and my midwifery studies linked together.

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So studying midwifery taught me how to become
an expert in a really specific area.

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So that really deep vertical part of the T
type of knowledge and in BCII, I learned a

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lot more of that broad, less expert but wider
ranging knowledge.

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And through BCII, I learned that you have
the ability and the licence to apply knowledge

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that you may not be an expert in your area
of expertise.

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I guess like if I'm talking about like a design
domain, so learning about principles of systems

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design and being able to see the health system
through that lens has given me a really different

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perspective of what it means to be a midwife
within that system.

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And the part that I play in the bigger picture.

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I think, for me, that has been the biggest
value that I've gained from BCII.

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It's not so much that it impacts my clinical
practice on a day to day level, but it's changed

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my perspective of what my role is and the
potential that I have in that greater system

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as I move through my career.

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So if I'm thinking about my favourite experiences,
in doing BCII, I would definitely have to

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highlight my honours project, my honours research
project that I did in fourth year.

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I always had in mind to go into research,
it was something that I really wanted to do

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in midwifery.

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And when I learned that BCII was offering
a research honours project, in my final year,

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I jumped on it straight away.

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I think the biggest difference in doing my
project under the Faculty of Transdisciplinary

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Innovation as opposed to under the midwifery
faculty is that it allowed me to explore areas

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that I wouldn't have necessarily had the ability
to explore in midwifery.

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So my project looked at, and i guess compared
in a way, women's experience in labour and

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birth with peak mystical experiences that
people experience outside of that context.

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And it's, I guess quite a creative and left
of field piece of research that I don't think

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that I would have had the ability to look
at under a health specific faculty.

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I think it's really important to learn transdisciplinary
skills in relation to health because I think

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health is kind of like our foundation.

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It underpins almost everything else that we
do in life, whether that's on an individual

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level or as a community, if our health is
off our life and our society really struggles.

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So I think it's important to have an understanding
of the relationship that health has to all

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these other sectors in our society, and on
an individual level as well.

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And I think that having the opportunity to
actually work with people who are becoming

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experts in these different sectors as you
do when you do collaborative projects with

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your peers in BCII gives you a different appreciation
for the value that those sectors bring individually

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and also how they can bring value to your
profession and vice versa, that you develop

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this appreciation for information and knowledge
exchange and sharing.

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And it helps you to develop an understanding
of the interconnectedness between all the

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different domains.

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Studying midwifery you have a really clear
idea of the direction that you're going to

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go, you know that you're going to complete
your studies, get a job and work as a midwife.

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Whereas studying midwifery and BCII, I know
that that is there for me as a pathway.

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But I can be a midwife, and also be a researcher
and work on projects that aren't necessarily

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midwifery specific, and go and also articulate
the value of midwifery practice to people

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who work completely in totally different sectors
that may have not necessarily encountered

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the concepts that we learn about in midwifery
and make them valuable and relevant to a really

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different context.

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And those are skills that I would never have
learnt or have in my toolkit if I hadn't done

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the dual degree.

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I can say from experience that although the
workload is heavy and it is demanding of your

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time, you do still have time to have a life.

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You can see friends, I went on holidays, almost
every semester, even though they were shorter

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than what, you know, someone doing just a
core degree would have.

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And I also got opportunities to do things
like global studio.

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So at the end of my second year, I went to
India with BCII and spent three weeks doing

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a community project there.

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And although it was technically uni work,
it allowed me to see a part of the world that

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I wouldn't have had the opportunity to necessarily
see otherwise.

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So when you're, you know, considering how
you're going to fit it all in, just know that

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there is time to make it work.

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You just have to be clever and committed to
your time management.

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The impact that BCII had on me, it changed
completely the way that I see the world.

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And it made me evolve as a person in a professional
and personal sense.

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The people that you come across, the concepts
that you come across, the experiences that

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you have, are, unreal and they they will change
you and for the better.

 

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Hi I am Juliet.

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I'm a second year engineering and BCII student.

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I was born in Sydney but I grew up in England.

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Honestly, the reason I took it in the first
place was it sounded kind of cool.

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And with engineering doing BCII takes no extra
time.

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So it seemed like I was getting two for one,
which was a pretty good deal.

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The reason I stayed was so much more.

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I love the social aspects of the degree and
the range of the people you meet, the industry

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exposure, but mainly I love solving problems.

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As an engineer, it is our role to create a
better world, for the future generations,

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and I think the BCII is really going to help
me do that.

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Sometimes the ideas in BCII are quite abstract,
and I think it really complements the often

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quite logical thinking that is needed in my
engineering degree.

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It's always important to have more than one
way to think.

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BCII has given me the ability to think logically,
abstractly and critically all at the same

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time.

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And it's been really helpful, especially in
group design projects.

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In one of my engineering subjects this year,
we had to design something that would help

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with the bushfires.

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And I think BCII allowed me to bring a really
different perspective to my group.

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The engineering process is often very linear.

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And while this simplifies a lot of the more
complicated work, it can miss out key aspects.

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Curing the symptoms but not the disease, so
to speak.

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Transdisciplinary skills help you dig a little
deeper and consider all the aspects of the

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problem.

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As the world gets more complicated, so does
its problems and it's very hard to actually

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solve them with a linear mindset.

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So there's so many favourite experiences to
choose from, from lunches with friends on

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the alumni green to getting to do some work
with International Conference Centre Sydney

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based off my first project in Winter School,
to satisfaction and group celebration when

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you finally hit that submit button at 11:58pm.

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With that being said, my favourite moment
has to come from the experience of being on

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the executive committee with BCII connect,
which is our social society.

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Every year during O'week without giving too
much away, the first year of BCII students

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do a scavenger hunt and this year, I was tasked
with creating it.

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A few weeks ago, someone posted in one of
our social Facebook groups that about how

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they felt that doing the scavenger hunt had
been so beneficial because despite lockdown,

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they felt like they had friends at Uni.

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And they've been having zoom drinks ever since.

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I don't mean to be dramatic, but it honestly
brought a bit of a tear to my eye.

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The most rewarding element of my studies so
far hasn't been a single moment.

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It's been, being able to create solutions
to real world problems in two days, and just

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the knowledge and affirmation, if I can do
that, I definitely have the power to make

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the world a better place.

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Ask yourself what's holding you back?

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Is the reason the lack of holidays because
I guarantee you there are still plenty.

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Then you know if all these reasons are just
fear, ignore it and jump right in.

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Without being too cheesy, my way of describing
the BCII in three words, would be just do

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it!