Goldsmiths' Alumni Blog
Goldsmiths alumni receive a 15% discount on any Goldsmiths short courses listed on Eventbrite. There are many exciting short courses starting in October 2022, including these listed below. Don’t miss out! To receive your alumni discount, email alumni@gold.ac.uk with your alumni details. Creativity, Confidence and Public Speaking – 18 October Does public speaking fill you… Read more Autumn short courses at Goldsmiths
Manisha Tailor, MBE (BA Education, 2001) recently published her teaching resource, ’50 Wellbeing Lessons for the Diverse Primary Classroom: Teaching through inclusive practice’. _________________________________________________________________________________ Teaching about wellbeing through inclusive practice is about ensuring that all young people feel like valued members of their school community and beyond. It is about ensuring that all those who… Read more Guest Post: Wellbeing Lessons for the Diverse Primary Classroom by Manisha Tailor MBE
It can be challenging finding work in the current economic climate. If you are a recent graduate and are thinking about what to do after graduation or looking for new opportunities, the Graduate Careers Coaching team at Goldsmiths have some amazing webinars in August. The webinars start at 11am and 12.30pm and are free to… Read more August Careers Webinars for Recent Graduates
In December 2020, Goldsmiths launched its first Student Support Appeal. There was an incredible response with over 200 alumni, staff and friends donating more than £26,000. This included a donation of £12,571 from the Royal China Group. To add to this support for our students, nearly 400 alumni and friends who give monthly by direct… Read more Alumni and friends support students in crisis during the Covid-19 pandemic
Goldsmiths alumni are incredible. You routinely return to campus to speak to students at panels, talks, workshops or lectures, you organise events and attend recruitment fairs and open days – and so much more. Even when the Covid-19 pandemic seemed to stop everything else, you continued to deliver by sharing your experience and time online.… Read more Thank you to our alumni volunteers
On the 10th anniversary of the ongoing Fukushima nuclear disaster, Don’t Follow the Wind, a book co-edited by curator Jason Waite, was released. Jason (MA Art and Politics, 2010) wrote to Goldsmiths with an update on his latest project. Jason is part of the eponymous collective of artists and curators working with residents displaced… Read more Guest Post: Don’t Follow the Wind – book out by alumnus Jason Waite
“Our Goldsmiths experience allowed us a world we never deemed possible” – how a dyslexia diagnosis while studying at Goldsmiths changed our lives. Created by Michelle Adams (BA Education, Culture and Society, 2017), the podcast The Catmaste Chronicles explores well-being, entrepreneur journeys and pets. In Episode 37, Michelle is joined by fellow Goldsmiths alumnus Solomon Smith… Read more Guest Post: Alumni Podcast Episode ‘Being Dyslexic at Goldsmiths’
Ian Mitchell (BMus Music, 1979) is a Clarinettist and Director of Gemini, a chamber ensemble. In March, Gemini released Clarinet and Strings and Ian wrote to Goldsmiths with an update on this latest project. From its very beginning in 1974, Gemini has commissioned composers in a variety of styles and programmed works and composers that… Read more Guest Post: Alumnus Ian Mitchell releases latest album – Clarinet and Strings
Siobhan Kalli is a writer and Goldsmiths alumna (MA Children’s Literature, 2019). After graduating in English and Linguistics (BA) from the University of Nottingham, she completed a PGCE at Keele and taught English GCSE and A level in the UK. Siobhan also taught English in Greece and worked as an editor in an ELT publishing… Read more Guest Post: ‘Something I Should Know’ by alumna Siobhan Kalli
Cantonese restaurant group Royal China has donated over £12,000 from proceeds raised from selling Year of the Ox food boxes during Lunar New Year to raise money for Goldsmiths students in need of financial support. The idea for this fundraising initiative came from Lin Zhang, Goldsmiths alumna from the Institute of Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship.… Read more Royal China Group launch fundraising initiative to support students at Goldsmiths
