Goldsmiths' Alumni Blog
S K Perry’s (MA Writer / Teacher, 2015) debut novel Let Me Be Like Water was shortlisted for the Mslexia Award and was published by Melville House this month. Sarah was longlisted for the inaugural London’s Young Poet Laureate and was Cityread Young Writer in Residence. She co-founded the masculinities project Great Men in 2012 and has worked on initiatives… Read more Guest Post: Debut novel by alumna S K Perry
The Strings Club, founded by Amy Cunningham (MMus Ethnomusicology, 2010) recently won in the category of ‘Scale Up Business of the Year’ at the FSB Celebrating Small Business Awards. The Strings Club is a music education company for children age 4-11, which also has won ‘Business Entrepreneur’ at the Great British Entrepreneur Awards. After completing her… Read more Alumna’s company wins at Small Business Awards
Anna Jane Greenville graduated from Goldsmiths in 2016 and has gone on to pursue a career in writing and publishing. Her first novel, ‘The Girl Who Was A Gentleman’ was released in English and German by Digital Publishers. My first novel was published on 7 December 2017 – exactly one year after my graduation ceremony,… Read more Guest Post: The Girl Who Was A Gentleman
Georgia Steele Matthews (BA English and Drama, 2014) is the Head of International Sales at PixelPin, a tech company that was selected to attend a Roundtable at Number 10 Downing Street. Georgia was one of two women in attendance representing the company. Georgia joined the conversation where the group discussed the opportunities for the UK tech… Read more Goldsmiths alumna represents PixelPin at 10 Downing Street
Why Goldsmiths? Diana Aroutiounova (MA Digital Media: Technology and Cultural Form, 2012) writes about her Goldsmiths experience and what she has gone to do since leaving I applied to study at Goldsmiths on a whim. I was living in Greece with my mom back then and was not sure what to do with my life, except that… Read more Guest Post by alumna Diana Aroutiounova
Dr William Herbert Cecil “Liam” Smith 26th of September 1925 to 14th of September 2017 This is an obituary for an extraordinary man based completely in the words of Goldsmiths students who knew Liam Smith as a teacher, as head of Raymont Hall and as an inspirational friend. Ann Arnold and Wendy Sim (Goldsmiths 1962-65)… Read more In Memoriam: Dr William Herbert Cecil “Liam” Smith
Set Free: From Banking to Buddhism in Bhutan By Emma Slade I am delighted that my book ‘Set Free’ was recently published and is easily available on Amazon and in bookshops. It describes my journey from being a Fine Art student at Goldsmiths (1993) into a high flying career in finance and my decision to… Read more Guest Post: Set Free
Book Launch: Learning and Teaching British Values by Sadia Habib Date: Thursday, 30 November 2017 Time: 4.30-6.30pm Location: Rooms 109 & 110, Ground Floor, Margaret McMillan Building On Thursday 30 November, Sadia Habib will be speaking about her book, ‘Learning and Teaching British Values’ at a joint event with her esteemed colleague from the Department of… Read more Guest Post: Book Launch by Sadia Habib
Recollections of Goldsmiths in the mid-60s I arrived, almost by chance at Goldsmiths On 10 October 1963, I arrived at Goldsmiths without having had an interview. When I left for Fiji on VSO in August 1962, I had a place to go to Nottingham Teachers Training College, but my science teacher arranged for me to… Read more Guest Post: Goldsmiths in the mid-60s
It is with sadness that I write to tell you that my friend Hilary Davies (nee Attack) passed away on 25 April 2017 after bravely battling breast cancer. Hilary and I started on the B.Ed course at Goldsmiths in 1986 having been at Secondary school together. We never planned it but found ourselves attracted to… Read more In Memoriam: Hilary Davies
