Financial Statements 2018/19


We are a strategic partner in the newly created Cultural Education Partnership, which brings together arts education bodies, schools, and formal and informal education providers across Barnet. We are one of the lead partner organisations for the London Borough of Barnet in its Arts and Culture Strategy.


On campus, over 180 students, across seven undergraduate and postgraduate modules, took part in the ‘No Home for Hate’ campaign, gaining great employability skills in the process. Students worked with the Metropolitan Police and other partners to respond to a brief to tackle hate crime. It challenged them to question their own attitudes, values and behaviour and then choose their own creative approach to engage other students. Through this, they created work that could be included in their portfolios, and developed communication skills that will help them in the workplace.


Partnerships with industry


Partnerships with industry leaders increase our students’ employability and our latest partners from creative businesses include Avid and Canon, as well as arts organisations such as Troika and ArtsDepot.


We have established our research partnership with Dance Umbrella – one of the leading dance festivals in the world. Our staff and students took part in their 40th anniversary celebration in October 2018 at Somerset House in London, gaining valuable experience and exposure while supporting the project with their knowledge and skills.


We are also part of a UK-wide initiative with Film London to provide a better dialogue and promote more effective alignment between employers in screen industries and universities.


We have a range of teaching partnerships around the world. As well as a growing presence for our courses at our campuses in Dubai and Mauritius, we have validated or franchised partnerships and articulation arrangements in the UK and Europe, and in other countries from Mexico to Malaysia. This year we continued our longstanding research relationship with the Beijing Dance Academy in China with shared staff-led and doctoral projects.


Research projects and partnerships


We have begun a major 5-year international project investigating gender justice and inclusive security in conflict-affected societies. The project is coordinated by the London School of Economics and funded by UK Research and Innovation’s Global Challenge Research Fund (GCRF).


Vida Midgelow, Professor of Dance and Choreographic Practices, has recently concluded a significant EU-funded research project, led by Middlesex. Artistic Doctorates in Europe (ADiE) involved universities and professional arts organisations in the UK, Finland and Sweden.


Neelam Raina, Associate Professor in Design, was partially seconded to a high profile leadership role for one of the thematic strands of the GCRF at UK Research and Innovation, and Jonathan Impett, Associate Professor in Music, continues his partial secondment as Director of Research to the Orpheus Institute in Ghent.


Showcasing our students’ skills


The best of our students’ work in film, TV and visual effects was shown to the most senior and influential screen and industry colleagues at an event at the BFI, London. The employers who attended were so impressed by their work that six students were offered jobs before the night was over.


Our students regularly present work externally and win many awards. Our own Arts and Creative Industries Degree Show at London’s Truman Brewery was a popular event. The private view alone attracted more than 1,500 people. We also presented 18 selected BA Fashion Design and Fashion Textiles collections to the industry and media at Somerset House in May 2019. The showcased students were shortlisted by a prestigious industry panel of judges including designer Bethany Williams, artist Julie Verhoeven, fashion director at culture and style magazine HUNGER Kim Howells, fashion editor at gentleman’s style journal Fantastic Man Stuart Williamson, and head of design at Anthropologie Luella Lane.


We work with London event organisers to give students the opportunity to gain practical experience during their studies. At London’s 2019 Chinese New Year celebrations, BA Music Business and Arts Management student, Juo Chee Koo, was tasked with recruiting, training and coordinating over 200 volunteers as part of a module for her course. Undergraduates volunteered at London’s biggest free independent music festival, the Hanwell Hootie, in May 2019. This experience of staffing a major live music event will make their applications for music industry jobs stand out.


Outstanding staff and alumni


We are proud of our impressive staff and alumni. Some of their many accolades in 2018/19 included a second BAFTA for BA Animation course leader Jonathan Hodgson for his film Roughhouse, and a BAFTA nomination for Richard Billingham, who lectures on the BA and MA photography courses. He was nominated in the category of Outstanding Debut by a British Writer, Director or Producer. Mark Vallance, Lecturer in Popular Music (Songwriting) co-wrote a song on singer-songwriter Tom Walker’s new album, which achieved a UK number one. 2019 also saw Knighthoods for Middlesex University Visiting Professor Robert Cohan in recognition of his contribution to contemporary dance over seven decades, and for the race and equalities activist Simon Woolley, who studied Spanish and Politics at Middlesex.


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