The return of Transatlantic Storytelling is officially underway as 16 Ball State students have been selected to participate in the second iteration of the award-winning project with Cardiff Met University in Cardiff, Wales.
The highlight of the project will be a 12-day cultural immersion trip to Wales in late February and early March 2024. While on the ground, students will collaborate with their peers in the Cardiff Met Sport Broadcast course to produce feature stories, live sporting events, studio shows and podcasts.
Bhavya Doshi (Cardiff Met)
I am Bhavya Doshi, an international student here in Wales from Kolkata, India. As a Sport Broadcast MSc student and a professional cricketer, I was keen on coming to Cardiff Met as a student-athlete, as not many universities offer a better facility for sports media students with a sporting career.
Growing up in east India, I followed Welsh sport pretty frequently with Glamorgan Cricket, Cardiff City FC and the Welsh national football team. Having a strikingly similar sport environment back home and some decent exposure to Welsh pop culture, the only culture shock I had moving to South Wales was the fact that many people here are bilingual, something I did not necessarily expect in Britain.
Only four months in, this course has already made me a lot better in various aspects of the sports media industry, and also introduced me to work in sports I am not familiar with, like rugby and netball. Right from live stream elements like commentary, directing and presenting to content generation for short and long-form channels, this course seemed the most effective to get a step in to the sports industry, and upon being here I realised that I could not be more right.
Working for Cardiff Met Cricket Club – the national champions – as a Media Intern and also as a match reporter of Cardiff Met Football Club, I have already collected some invaluable experience in the industry. Sport is a massive part of Welsh culture, and to witness it first-hand continues to amaze me even after the eighteen weeks that I have been here.
I am confident that this will be the same experience from the cohort from Ball State University. I am excited to welcome you here, and not only make content with you but also show you around Cardiff as an international student. I expertise in cricket and football, and love making longer-form content and features, and I look forward to doing the same with the talented group from Indiana.
The reason why Transatlantic Storytelling is so successful as a concept is because it has the ability to tap into stories you would have never known about. As a person from a far-away land myself, I would not have known the stories I do now had I not made the journey to this beautiful nation. Highly looking forward to it!
Bhavya Doshi
