Collaboration and interdisciplinary practice are at the heart of what we do, and our industry-standard facilities enable students to shape their fields using the most up-to-date equipment and technology, with full technical support. The show went on during the pandemic, students learnt from experts, and staff and students won some prestigious awards.
The Faculty comprises four Departments offering courses in Media, Performing Arts, Design and Visual Arts. The Academic Dean for the Faculty is Dr Kene Igweonu.
WORK-BASED, COLLABORATIVE EDUCATION
At Middlesex we co-create with the sector and across disciplines, and this year’s Faculty work exemplified our collaborative culture. We have led the way in a partnership between universities, colleges and screen industry skills body ScreenSkills on guidelines – put together by Middlesex Senior Lecturer in Television Production Dr Eddie McCaffrey – for students to manage the risk of working on a film, TV or other visual media production during COVID-19. In recognition of this and other efforts towards widening participation, developing graduate employability and working collaboratively with colleagues across education and industry, Dr McCaffrey received a National Teaching Fellowship, awarded by Advance HE.
Among exciting collaborations with industry were Graphic Design students’ and Senior Lecturer Andrew Gossett’s work with Phil Garnham, Creative Type Director at Monotype, who briefed students and reviewed their type designs, and Games Design students’ work with partners including CCP Games and Sharkmob. This year our Visual Effects and 3D Animation and Games courses also held events attended by professionals, including from Industrial Light & Magic, and students pitched ideas to Waste Creative, which works with Supercell and Nintendo. The Advertising, PR and Branding Speaker Series delivered panel discussions for our students in London and abroad, and MA Media Management Industry students led a panel including representatives from the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, ITV and Sky. Our Film and TV students also learned from professionals who talked to them about being freelance and pitching ideas, while Nick Manzi, former Head of Production/Acquisitions at Lionsgate, and Pete Daly, Script Reader and Adviser to Lionsgate, Sony Pictures, Netflix and others delivered a day-long workshop to our students.
Other highlights included BA Film staff and students working with Barnet Mencap and Why Me Restorative Justice on a film campaign, and first-year students presenting a film to a Barnet Labour Group Violence Against Women and Girls Strategy event. We also made a progression agreement with London Screen Academy and work by first-year Illustration student Emma Quick will appear in graphic novel Lockdown Diaries of the Working Class, alongside collaborations from critically acclaimed artists such as Brian Eno.
HIGH-PERFORMING LEARNING CULTURE
This year the Faculty celebrated many student, alumni and staff successes. Two Film and TV Production students won Royal Television Society (RTS) London Student Awards: Timea Moshaver and Anand Tiwari, for One Day You Will Hear My Voice, and Billy King and Vasco Alexandre for Yard Kings, with Yard Kings going on to win the Undergraduate Sound Award in the national RTS Student Television Awards. Graduate filmmakers Laura Torres and Cloé Peker won three Learning on Screen awards. Other creative achievements included 3D Animation and Games student Jordan-Leigh Campbell winning a motion graphics competition set by anti-knife crime campaign Hearts of Talent, Graphic Design student Julia Adolphs winning a Design and Art Direction (D & AD) Pencil Award in the Audible competition, and BA English student Marisa Pavli winning the Fairtrade Spoken Word Competition.
An image by Photography alumna Johannah Churchill was shown at Piccadilly Circus for a National Portrait Gallery project. A Portrait of a Nurse also was on the cover of the project’s book. Other Middlesex alumni highlights included Dexter McLean being commissioned to show photographs
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