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Times Higher Education (THE) @timeshighered.bsky.social · 6d

With levy-funded maintenance grants and 50 per cent target scrapped again, government’s vision for universities becomes clearer. But while rhetoric appears tough, experts see opportunities as education takes centre stage. Patrick Jack reports
https://ow.ly/bwXv50X5BgV

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Goldsmiths, University of London @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social · 9d

Rapper and poet Omar Elsaaidi is an Equity Awards scholar who grew up near our campus in New Cross.

He’s filmed performing Foundations of Gold, capturing the energy of our students and the achievements of some high-profile alumni.

Watch the video: www.gold.ac.uk/celebrating-120

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Bylines Network @bylinesnetwork.co.uk · 8d

✍️ Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain

What happens to your brain when you use ChatGPT to write your essay? MIT watched students’ brain activity to find out. The results are worrying.

@eastangliabylines.co.uk @stephenmcnair.bsky.social

Research shows that ChatGPT is changing your brain

People worry that students are increasingly using generative AI in their work. It saves time, but what is it doing to their brains?

eastangliabylines.co.uk

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · 20d

BBC Radio is on the lookout for brand new presenters with experience in student, community, hospital radio or podcasting to takeover shows across BBC R1, R1 Dance and R1 Anthems this Xmas!

Send your demo here: lnkd.in/eeY6Z3_V

Applications are open now and close at 23:59 on Sunday 28th September.

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · Aug 4

Former students - take note!

Riverside Radio @thisisriverside.bsky.social · Aug 4

WE ARE HIRING! Experienced presenter/tech trainer required www.riversideradio.com/news-slides/...

We need a Trainer

for our Radio Club

www.riversideradio.com

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Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social · Jul 10

My friend and colleague at @mediacomgold.bsky.social Sam is making a community film in his hometown, and his funding fell through. Its called POLAR, set in Sleaford, Lincs. If this appeals to get please donate at @kickstarter.com follow this link: www.kickstarter.com/projects/pol...

Polar: A Community Film Project

A short coming of age film written by Sam Roy. A film not just set in Sleaford, Lincolnshire, but starring and made by Sleafordians!

www.kickstarter.com

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · Jul 2

Our Audio, Radio & Podcasting courses get a shout out in this interview with ARP Tech Tutor Quentin! @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social · Jul 2

I was interviewed recently about my experience as a radio engineer with various strange atmospheric phenomena, reflecting signals from far away on bands that generally don't, and whether climate change is making it worse! www.thereengineer.pro/p/hot-air-th...

Hot air: the bizarre effects climate change could have on radio

From lost signals to super long-distance broadcasts

www.thereengineer.pro

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · Jun 19

Audio degrees Lecturers @bbcbob.bsky.social Bridget Harney, and tutors @hackista.bsky.social @quentinnield.bsky.social at the Audio Lounge, our graduates display at the ANTE/POST launch event at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social

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Dr Rashmee Roshan Lall @rashmee.bsky.social · Jun 18

Come and see what young minds do when they explore old ideas...and subvert them, with creative purpose and intent!
@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social
Degree Show is on. Details 👇🏽https://www.instagram.com/p/DKjuRnWCrs0/?img_index=1

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · Jun 18

ANTE/POST, our degree show, launches tomorrow night with a party - we spent the day getting our Audio Lounge ready with a video showreel and listening station for all our graduates final pieces for the @mediacomgold.bsky.social degree

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Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social · Jun 6

NEW MA Broadcast Journalism course from us at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social www.instagram.com/reel/DKBBPkB...

Login • Instagram

Welcome back to Instagram. Sign in to check out what your friends, family & interests have been capturing & sharing around the world.

www.instagram.com

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Goldsmiths, University of London @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social · May 21

A new study will be the first to explore how devolving UK broadcasting powers could improve media provision as well as the public’s connection with it.

Dr Tom Chivers @mediacomgold.bsky.social joins a team of researchers from the UK's four nations www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/br...

Researcher part of first UK broadcasting devolution study

Goldsmiths academic Dr Tom Chivers joins researchers from Aberystwyth, Ulster and Glasgow universities in the first study into devolving broadcast policy in the UK.

www.gold.ac.uk

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · Apr 1

NEW! MCCS are awarding a limited no of 100% fee waivers for 2025–26 for students who are the first in their family to attend university on these MAs:

• MA Cultural Studies

• MA Gender, Media and Culture

• MA Race, Media and Social Justice

Full details: www.gold.ac.uk/fees-funding...

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · May 18

Have a listen to our students own station! www.goldsmithssu.org/opportunitie...

Wired Radio Station

www.goldsmithssu.org

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Goldsmiths Prize @goldsmithsprize.bsky.social · May 16

The Future of the Novel: A round-table discussion

@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social at 6.30pm on Wednesday June 4th

FREE TIX here 👇
www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/the-future...

The Future of the Novel: a round-table discussion

What is a novel? What does the future hold for this most elastic of forms? With Simon Okotie, Tim Parnell, Lara Pawson & Amy Sackville.

www.eventbrite.co.uk

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Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social · May 15

Hauling a bunch of kit to @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to set up for tomorrow’s Charles Parker Awards, hosted by us at @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social - tix still available at www.cpatrust.org.uk/prize

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Goldsmiths, University of London @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social · Mar 25

Friends of The Wall, a documentary by @mediacomgold.bsky.social Evan Green, profiles the volunteers who maintain the Covid Memorial Wall in Westminster.

Broadcast again for BBC Radio 4's New Storytellers, marking 5 years since the start of the Covid lockdowns www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

BBC Radio 4 - New Storytellers, Friends of the Wall

They’ve painted over 200,000 red hearts on a huge wall in the heart of Westminster. Why?

www.bbc.co.uk

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Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social · Mar 13

Newsreader Charlie at @thisisriverside.bsky.social is fundraising on Boat Race Day for #SoundVision, a charity that providing comms, media and broadcast training to marginalised groups, regardless of class, race, gender orientation, neurodiversity or age. www.justgiving.com/page/riversi...

Riverside Radio - Charlie's Charity Challenge for Sound Vision at The Boat Race

Help Riverside Radio raise money to support Sound Vision

www.justgiving.com

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Jo Littler @jolittler.bsky.social · Jan 27

Out now: my new article ‘Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-Equality Agenda’ in South Atlantic Quarterly @dukepress.bsky.social (1/9) read.dukeupress.edu/south-atlant...

Model Minority Authoritarianism: Social Mobility and the New Anti-equality Agenda

This article puts forward a cultural‐political formation it terms “model minority authoritarianism.” The idea of the model minority has both been venerated as the virtuous face of immigration and/or n...

read.dukeupress.edu

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · Jan 23

MA Audio, Radio and Podcasting students graduating recently.
@mediacomgold.bsky.social graduates specialising in Audio are well regarded by industry and have roles at production houses like @bbcstudios.bsky.social, @bbcsounds.bsky.social & Goalhanger!
Want to join them? Head to gold.ac.uk.

Goldsmiths MA students celebrating in their robes with champagne

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Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social · Jan 16

Another reason to train humans to talk to each other on podcasts and radio, not AI! See @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social to see how! #edusky techcrunch.com/2025/01/14/g...

Google's NotebookLM had to teach its AI podcast hosts not to act annoyed at humans | TechCrunch

NotebookLM's viral AI podcast hosts sounded annoyed at human callers and required "friendliness tuning," Google says.

techcrunch.com

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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social · Jan 15

HEADS UP! @mediacomgold.bsky.social Alum Sam Stone www.instagram.com/samebstone/?... has a documentary on BBC Radio 4 this Sunday (Jan 19th)! Details here: www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

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Media, Communications & Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths @mediacomgold.bsky.social · Dec 9

From Absolutely Fabulous to Little Voice and Life is Sweet: Jane Horrocks recently shared fascinating insights into her 40-year career in film, TV, music & theatre with us in MCCS @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 🎭🎬

Here's her two cents for graduates stepping into an adventurous career! 🌟

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Lisa Hack @hackista.bsky.social · Dec 8

An imperfect photo capturing the moment perfectly.

I brought the multitrack fellows into @goldsmithsaudio.bsky.social main studio along with Alumni for a taster in live radio skills.

Over 80% of the UK population still listen to radio, having the productions skills for it is still valuable.

6 people in the control room of an audio studio. Person in fron is laughing. They are in an orange tee shirt. To their left a woman with long pink hair is looking focused at the mixing desk which is unseen. On the far right a person is clicking their fingers with delight and 3 other people in the background are celebrating the end of a successful ‘as live’ radio show.

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Quentin Nield @quentinnield.bsky.social · Dec 5

Very happy to report our own Audio, Radio & Podcasting department in @mediacomgold.bsky.social at Goldsmiths University @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social …now has its own Bluesky feed! Follow us at:
@goldaudioradpod.bsky.social
#edusky

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