Join @mediacomgold.bsky.social for the start of the Media Forum series. 'Towards a Decolonised Journalism: Lessons from the Black Radical Tradition' with Dr Omega Douglas and Dr Marcela Pizarro Coloma. 📍 8 Oct, 6pm-8pm, Goldsmiths Cinema 🔗 www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

We are delighted to announce the #GoldsmithsPrize2025 shortlist. Congratulations to our six brilliant novelists! Find out more about the shortlist: www.gold.ac.uk/goldsmiths-p...

Today is a special day in our history, marking exactly 120 years since we opened our doors as a university on 29 September 1905. Now as then, we're recognising the contribution our students and staff make to society by turning knowledge into action.

Our '25 judges, @simonokotie.bsky.social Amy Sackville (Chair) & Mark Haddon together @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social to decide this year's shortlist! Megan Nolan joining virtually. Announcement next Thursday, 2nd October around 9pm! 🔥

Congratulations to Dr Akshi Kumar, Senior Lecturer in Computing, awarded the Florence R. Sabin award for research excellence by Graduate Women in Science. Read more on our website 👉 gold.ac.uk/news/2025/fl...

For your diary @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social - Luke Lewis, Nigel Clarke & David Matthews at the George Wood Theatre And it's free - thanks to Imogen Burman-Mitchell for the collaboration ! www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

"I feel very grateful to be in this space and to hear from people I perhaps normally wouldn’t interact with.” Goldsmiths student Morley shares his experience of living in Melfield Gardens, a new intergenerational housing scheme, on BBC Radio London. 📻Listen from 1hr17: bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...

Do you speak virus? This October we are publishing “Virus is a Language” by Chris Hables Gray, this book shows how Generative AI and cults such as QAnon spread digitally, and culturally follow the same rules as biological viruses. 🦠🦠🦠 @mitpress.bsky.social @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social

How do you bring a sculpture to life? Computing technicians Nicky Donald and Mirko Febbo worked with studio Art and Assembly on a major commission at Somerset House, making the slumbering sculpture central to Tai Shani’s The Spell or The Dream gently breathe.

In a new review of a 2022 report about menopause in the workplace, Professor Catherine Rottenberg @mediacomgold.bsky.social and colleagues at LSE call into question the report's stand-out statistic👇

"We are talking about research security a lot more than we used to just a few years ago." Dr Nicola Searle discusses her work on economic espionage and the balance between openness and security in research and innovation www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/ec...

Projects by students and a graduate from MSc User Experience Engineering have been nominated for the Autumn 2025 UX Design Awards. Their work includes an AI-powered pet adoption platform and a project which helps locate missing people by mobilising volunteers. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/ux...

Goldsmiths computing academics are partners on two of three @braiduk.bsky.social responsible AI demonstrator projects. They're exploring creating immersive art experiences through AI and sustainable AI futures. Read the full story👇https://www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/braid-demonstrator-projects/

Watching live performances in a group setting impacts brain activity, with performers breaking the fourth wall especially causing synchrony, a new study has revealed. 💃Read the full story www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/ne...

This week we celebrated the launch of a new intergenerational housing scheme for Lewisham. Melfield Gardens, which has been built to Passivhaus standards, brings together students and residents aged 55+ in a new model for community living. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/me...

Trump casts himself as the victim of imagined future injustices to create a sense of ‘victimcould’ and further his agenda, a new paper by @kat-hig.bsky.social argues. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/vi...

How did a man of seemingly limitless wealth, power and impunity style himself as a victim du jour of America's prevailing political order? My new article in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social about Trump, criminalization and "victimcould" tries to figure it out. doi.org/10.1177/1367...

A new film chronicling post-war working class history in Medway in Kent has been produced by participants in Goldsmiths' Open Book initiative. Open Book works to remove barriers to higher education, providing free, open access classes and support. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/op...

Congratulations to Dr Ivan Zupic, whose paper has won a @sagepub.com 10-Year Impact Award, which recognises the most-cited articles over the past decade. Full story 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/sage-10-year-impact-award

Congratulations to @linadencik.bsky.social on her @erc.europa.eu project investigating the uses of AI and data-driven technologies by public bodies across welfare states in Europe. Prof Dencik is our University Research Leader in AI Justice @mediacomgold.bsky.social. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/er...

Books from Goldsmiths Press will be shared on an innovative open access platform run by The MIT Press, one of the world’s leading university presses. Story on our website 👉 www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/go...

A new exhibition marks the beginning of a multi-year collaboration between Goldsmiths and the Museum of Contemporary Art (MoCA) Shanghai, exploring the link between art and science. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/go...

“The report acknowledges that while AI offers powerful tools to enhance creativity… it also raises urgent questions.” CoSTAR Foresight Lab director Jonny Freeman contributes to a report on generative AI from partners BFI. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/co...

A 5-star review for a wide-ranging retrospective of the work of alumnus Hamad Butt at The Whitechapel Gallwery. . Part of the Young British Artist generation, he studied Fine Art at Goldsmiths in the late 1980s www.theguardian.com/artanddesign...

Student researchers are supporting lawyers in a case at the Court of Justice of the European Union. Students taking part in the Immigration Law Clinic are working with a lawyer on a case that challenges the way migrant claims are dealt with in Italy. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/im...

Congratulations to alumna Bernadine Evaristo, honoured with a one-off Outstanding Contribution Award to mark the 30th year of @womensprize.bsky.social. The Award is in recognition of her body of work, alongside her advocacy for inclusivity in the arts. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Join @mediacomgold.bsky.social for an evening of conversation with leading voices in the London local news sector, part of Indie News Week 2025. 📍9 June, 6 - 8pm ⬇️Full details

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...

A team of graduates @mediacomgold.bsky.social have won a prestigious Royal Television Society (RTS) award for their documentary exploring the life of Black and queer rapper Kween Deekayy. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/rt...

See pictures from the first student showcase by students on our Escape Room Design and Immersive Theatre module in the Department of Computing. Visitors played through the student-built escape rooms and immersive experiences during the one-day showcase in March www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/es...

On Tuesday we are getting together to celebrate Finance Aesthetics: A Critical Glossary. The event will be on campus at Goldsmiths, and will feature conversation from editors and guests. Come along! Sign up for free here - www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/finance-ae....

"Seeing Hezekiah Moscow’s name in the headlines more than 130 years after he was last there has been so exciting. I’m so proud to have played a part.” An MA History graduate's work on Victorian boxers helped inspire the Disney+ series A Thousand Blows www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/a-...

In the latest episode of BBC Radio 3's The Essay, Dr Becca Voelcker shares examples of what she calls Land Cinema. The practice sees local people involved in telling their own stories, co-creating films about land rights, food security and pollution. www.bbc.co.uk/programmes/m...

Two projects by last year's BA finalists @mediacomgold.bsky.social have been nominated in the @rtsmedia.bsky.social London Student TV Awards, with the winners announced next week. 👏 rts.org.uk/event/rts-lo...

A new series 'Race Historicised: Epistemologies of Colour’ about the lives and works of major anti-colonial thinkers was written and produced by @mediacomgold.bsky.social's Dr Marcela Pizarro Coloma for Al Jazeera English www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/ra...

Linda Schilling Cuellar, PhD Student in the Centre for Research Architecture at Goldsmiths is part of the team of curators for the Chile Pavilion at the 19th International Architecture Exhibition this summer. Read the full story🔽 www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/ch...

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...

"Next time you hit a mental block, skip the mindless scrolling – try a poem instead.” It's World Poetry Day and a new study from researchers @GoldsmithsPsych has found reading poetry in a break between tasks can boost creative thinking. Full story👇 www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/re...

Join me, and some other people from @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social for some talks on research for #Autism Acceptance month www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/goldsmiths... I'll be talking about autistic people's experience of menopause, Laura about co-produced training, & Jamie about wearable sensors.

“The time for action and for making the music industry a safer place is now.” Content warning: This post discusses research on suicide rates

Errollyn Wallen talks to The Guardian ahead of the premiere of Reign, a choral work performed by 150 women, girls and non-binary people aged 8-80. The multi award-winning composer studied music at Goldsmiths and was named Master of the King's Music last year www.theguardian.com/music/2025/m...

Sabrina Etherington talks about doing the MA in Gender, Media and Culture here @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social and the development of the feminist podcast The F Less Travelled: Tracing Feminist Pathways which is being re-activated today

Goldsmiths' Professor Peter Doyle and researchers at Keele University have uncovered the history of forgotten WWII decoy sites in Staffordshire. They used a variety of digital tools to study the sites and capture images, preserving them for future generations. www.gold.ac.uk/news/2025/ww...

From our friends at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social 📅 Weds 26 February 16.00-18.00, Stuart Hall Building, Goldsmiths, University of London. Podcasting as Care: feminist contact zones w/Zoha Zokaei, Agata Lisiak, Saba Zavarei, Sabrina Etherington, Ros Gill, Nirmal Puwar www.gold.ac.uk/calendar/?id...

A new paper co-authored by Goldsmiths' @kat-hig.bsky.social explores our preoccupation with stories about women who lie, scam and cheat. As Netflix's Apple Cider Vinegar hits our screens, she talks to British Vogue about why we can't get enough of con women www.vogue.co.uk/article/why-...

Ever wanted to know what it's like to study at @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social @mediacomgold.bsky.social ? Listen to my interview on the 'Growing With Goldsmiths' podcast on my experiences in doing a Scriptwriting MA and navigating the film, TV and radio industries in subsequent years:

An MA film by Goldsmiths filmmaking students @mediacomgold.bsky.social was shown to the Pope in a special screening at the Vatican this month. Romchyk is the story of a young Ukrainian aspiring ballroom dancer, who was badly burned in a Russian missile strike in 2022 which also killed his mother.

Washed and ready for the @goldsmithsuol.bsky.social Library Special Collections as part of my PhD submission ‘Is my body out of date? The drag of Physicality in the digital age.’ Installing today; viva on Thursday… 🤞 #DraggedObjects @serg1na.bsky.social

With Bridget Jones back on our screens this weekend, Terry Kirby, Senior Lecturer @mediacomgold.bsky.social, explores the origins of the much-loved series for Saga Magazine. He traces the journey from unassuming newspaper column to a global phenomenon www.saga.co.uk/magazine/ent...