Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department

@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student Oscar Woolrich reports on the new ‘brat’ Charli XCX wall in a corner of #London thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/charli-xcx...

@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student Declan Miele-Howell reports on a community’s efforts to hold on to a precious part of #London thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/community-...

@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student Declan Miele-Howell reports on a community’s efforts to hold on to a precious part of #London. @fourthreserve.bsky.social thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/community-...

#thisweekthosebooks #socialmedia #addiction
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This is the week to care about #nomophobia (no mobile phobia) and #tech that’s just too big via @medium.com #thisweekthosebooks medium.com/this-week-th...

@goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student Masbal Cali reports thegoldstandard1.substack.com/p/lewisham-l...

For this area, a champion boxer’s statue was a crucial marker of home and merit, finds @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social #journalism student Sachin Badrakia
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Adam Alter on addiction to #technology. #thisweekthosebooks
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One of our tech tutors, Quentin, was very busy before the start of spring term at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social !

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
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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

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?

✍️ 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.

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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.

Former students - take note!

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!

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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.

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...

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...

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

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.

The Future of the Novel: A round-table discussion

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

FREE TIX here 👇
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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

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?

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...

Riverside Radio - Charlie's Charity Challenge for Sound Vision at The Boat Race Help Riverside Radio raise money to support Sound Vision

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...

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...

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...

Goldsmiths MA students celebrating in their robes with champagne

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.

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.

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...