Third Annual John Beacham Teaching Conference

Department of Media & Communications

Goldsmiths University of London
Thursday 15th September 2016. 10 am-4.30 pm
The Stuart Hall Building LG01

In memory of former head of department John Beacham (1948-2004) Media &

Communications presents its third annual teaching conference in his memory to
recognise the influence of his mentoring, standard setting, and the development
of teaching quality during his career at Goldsmiths.

The conference seeks to provide sessions, materials, discussions and advice on

best teaching practices, techniques and cultures for practice and theory media
and communications in higher education and beyond.

The day is also recognised as part of Goldsmiths Postgraduate Certificate in the

Management of Learning and Teaching in Higher Education. (Accredited by
both Goldsmiths and the Higher Education Academy)

Schedule
10 am Morning Session Making an art out of teaching methodologies
introduced by Mary Claire Halvorson
10.15 to 10.45 am Mark Aitken: Storytelling for film making.
Storytelling for film making is a learning resource supported by a TaLIC Goldsmiths
Fellowship Award. A process of critical analysis complementing practice is offered for
productive confidence building results for both students and staff.
See: https://learn.gold.ac.uk/course/view.php?id=4541
Mark lectures at Goldsmiths University of London and has written, produced and directed
award winning films including Dead when I got here and Forest of Crocodiles. Mark has
worked in the Media and Communications Department for 10 years facilitating film making
practice with MA and undergraduate students.

10.45 to 11.15 am Dave Watson: A Hail of Bullets.

Communicating more effectively with slides by moving beyond bullet points and towards
visual storytelling.
Dave has been a Digital Media Technical Adviser in the Media and Communications
Department at Goldsmiths for 2 years, teaching on BA Media and Communications, MA
Digital Media and MA Photography, The Image and Electronic Arts. He is a freelance
animator and graphic designer, and a student on the PG Cert programme at Goldsmiths.

Questions to 11.30 am.

Break 11.30 to 12 noon.
Keynote Lecture in memory of John Beacham. 12 noon to 1 p.m.
Professor Marianne Franklin: Selling Education and the Digital Native.
(Introduced by Tim Crook)
Marianne is Professor of Global Media and Politics and convenes the MA in Global Media
and Transnational Communications at Goldsmiths. She is currently chair of the Global
Internet Governance Academic Network (GigaNet) and former co-Chair of the Internet
Rights and Principles Dynamic Coalition at the UN Internet Governance Forum. She is chair
of the Media and Communications Departments Teaching and Learning Committee and her
recent academic publications include Digital Dilemmas: Power, Resistance and the Internet
published by Oxford University Press.

Lunch 1 pm to 2 pm. Professor Stuart Hall cafeteria available for light buffet
etc.
Afternoon Session: Controversies in teaching practice and histories.
2 to 3 p.m. Dr. Gavin Weston: Teaching Controversy.
(Introduced by Mary Claire Halverson)
Gavin's presentation will explore the value of using academic controversies as a pedagogic
tool to help students engage with the history, theory and key debates that occur within
their disciplines.
Gavin convenes the MA in Development and Rights in the Department of Anthropology. His
academic research and publications include investigating vigilantism in Guatamala and
broader issues of post-war violence, and the democratisation of security in the UK.

3 to 4 p.m. (Introduced by Tim Crook)

Zlatina Nikolova: The Educational Film: Bryhers Reflections on Learning
through Film.
Zlatina is an Associate Lecturer at Royal Holloway College, University of London teaching
film studies in the context of Media Arts. She gained her MA at Goldsmiths and is currently
undertaking doctoral research on the English modernist writer Bryher and her specific
interest in film.
Zlatinas presentation explores what could well be one of the foundations of Film Studies.
She focuses on Bryher essays published in the 1920s that compared the role of film in
teaching in different countries, including Russia and America. Bryher analysed the benefits
of film in education and had a wider understanding of the role of the film medium in the
educational process.

Philippa Zielfa Maslin: Reflections of a Professional Teacher- from secondary

schools to the University.
Pippa is a Ph.D. student and Visiting Tutor at Royal Holloway. She had a thirteen-year career
teaching English in Surrey comprehensive schools, during which time she held additional
roles such as Deputy Head of House, Equal Opportunities Coordinator, and Lead
Professional in Teaching and Learning. She has a Masters in Film and Television Studies
from the University of Bristol, and her doctoral research concerns contemporary British
coming-of-age films.
Pippas presentation explores the journey from teaching school pupils to teaching university
students, and how she sees the current landscape of further and higher education.

In particular, she intends to air some concerns about the relationship between tools such as
student course evaluations, the NSS, and the TEF, and matters of performance
management, job security and student fees.

4 to 4.30 pm Professor Tim Crook: Pupil monitoring, flogging and teaching

the teachers: An early history of education at Goldsmiths.
Announcing the awards for Joseph and John Crook prize for highest marks in
Media Law and Ethics exam.
Tim is a professor in the Department of Media and Communications, heading the subjects of
radio and media law and ethics. He has had recent research published on the relationship of
the US radio dramatist and feature maker Norman Corwin with the BBC, and the
representation of George Orwells prose and essay writing on the radio.
His presentation will briefly explore the development of teaching cultures at Goldsmithsincluding its earlier incarnation as a Royal Naval School during the 19 th century. He will be
remembering Goldsmiths second warden Professor Thomas Raymont who played a key role
in developing progressive teaching techniques and wrote seminal text books on education
that are now lost to history.