Category Archives: TPP blogposts

This session was online within our tutor groups, and was about finding out more about each other, and sharing something about pedagogy. We had to make a brief presentation. It turned into a wide ranging discussion about how we teach … Continue reading →

Professional journalists consume news on a daily basis, whether it is “hard news” about the current conflict in Ukraine, or the latest stories about their area of specialism like fashion or film. They are expected to know what’s going on … Continue reading →

Mushrooms, made from recycled bottles by Veronica Richterova. Photo c. Michal Cilar 2005  https://www.veronikarichterova.com/en/my-works/pet-art-sculptures/# At an in-person cohort session we were asked: ‘Sustainability: How do we reclaim the buzzword, and what can we do with it?’ This led to a … Continue reading →

In 2021, in the wake of the death of George Floyd and the Black Lives Matter protests, Women in Journalism, (WIJ)  the UK’s leading networking, training and campaigning organisation for journalists in the UK, undertook research into the representation of … Continue reading →

In their article ‘Key aspects of teaching and learning in the visual arts,’ Alison Shreeve, Shân Wareing and Linda Drew outline the benefits for students of working with external partners:  Students can put their knowledge into practice through collaborative work … Continue reading →

What sounded like a very dry session turned out to be one of the most enjoyable, but also controversial. Jheni Arboine, Educational Developer: Academic Enhancement and Siobhan Clay: Educational Developer: Student Experience introduced us to how “data” can mean anything … Continue reading →

For the practical element of this session, we were asked to introduce an item we use in our teaching and how it currently fits into our teaching. I used an online interview from the Women in Journalism (WIJ) website with … Continue reading →

This was the first session where I met my tutor group. We were asked to teach 20-minute sessions based on the object-based learning lecture we had had previously. It was fascinating to see what colleagues from different departments and disciplines … Continue reading →

This online session was led by Judy Willocks, head of the museum and study collection at CSM. She described her own experience of engaging students with this wonderful collection, much of it consisting of the work of former students. One … Continue reading →

I’m an Associate Lecturer in the Media School at LCC, working mainly across several BA and MA degrees in the Journalism and Publishing department, and also in Media and Communications. My career spans 30 years on national newspapers and magazines … Continue reading →