Isabel

"I always knew I wanted to be a journalist, and I think studying in such a buzzing area of London was great preparation for working in the media. I took a journalism module as part of my course, and did work experience at publishing companies and newspapers during the holidays. My sense of nosiness also led me to write my dissertation on the sociology of diaries, and this was before blogs really existed, so it would be a very different study now.

After I graduated, I started a post-grad course in magazine journalism elsewhere, but left halfway through as I was offered a job as a junior writer at Heat magazine after doing a two week placement there. I went on to be Staff Writer for Heat, then editor of their website, and then left in 2009 to launch and edit celebrity gossip blog 3am.co.uk at the Mirror. Six months ago, I went freelance, because I wanted to do more writing and less managing, so now I write features, reviews and opinion pieces for the Daily Telegraph, Grazia, Elle, Fabulous and anyone else who’ll pay me. I think starting out in the media is even tougher these days than it was when I graduated, but Goldsmiths is a great place to start, and it’s quite likely that you’ll meet people who you’ll end up working with one day.

I fell in love with South-East London during my time at Goldsmiths and still live in New Cross now – it’s changed an awful lot since I started uni 13 years ago. Saying that, I ended up having a drink at the Students’ Union recently, and was pleased to discover it hasn’t changed a bit!"