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Goldsmiths Audio, Radio & Podcasting Department
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Audio, Radio & Podcasting Dept of @mediacomgold.bsky.social at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
-Charles Parker Prize (Gold in 2013,2019 and 2023)
-Rising Star Award 2019 (European Broadcast Union)
-Best Radio Feature at the BJTC
...more at https://gold.ac.uk
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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
October 3, 2025 at 5:25 AM
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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
September 29, 2025 at 3:15 PM
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✍️ 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
October 1, 2025 at 6:42 AM
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.
September 19, 2025 at 6:25 AM
Former students - take note!
August 4, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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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
July 10, 2025 at 1:48 PM
Our Audio, Radio & Podcasting courses get a shout out in this interview with ARP Tech Tutor Quentin! @mediacomgold.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social
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
July 2, 2025 at 12:32 PM
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
June 19, 2025 at 9:26 PM
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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
June 18, 2025 at 12:33 AM
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
June 18, 2025 at 9:49 PM
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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
May 21, 2025 at 10:26 AM
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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...
April 1, 2025 at 8:48 AM
Have a listen to our students own station! www.goldsmithssu.org/opportunitie...
Wired Radio Station
www.goldsmithssu.org
May 18, 2025 at 10:02 AM
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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
May 16, 2025 at 2:01 PM
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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
May 15, 2025 at 7:45 AM
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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
March 25, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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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
March 13, 2025 at 9:17 AM
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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
January 27, 2025 at 9:03 AM
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.
January 23, 2025 at 8:48 AM
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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
January 16, 2025 at 12:44 PM
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...
January 15, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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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! 🌟
December 9, 2024 at 11:36 AM
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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.
December 8, 2024 at 9:34 PM
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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
December 5, 2024 at 8:11 PM