I am a specialist technician in Physical Computing, which is a significant student-facing role. Here, I will discuss an instance of a demeaning student during their tutorials and make some recommendations.  Tutorials At the Creative Computing Institute (CCI), we have diploma students which come from all the other colleges at UAL and spend a year…

As stated in the preface of this assignment, I hold two roles at CCI. In addition to my lecturing responsibilities, I am also an institute specialist technician in Physical Computing, with a significant student-facing role. Here, I will discuss my process for designing teaching and learning from the perspective of a supporting technician, rather than…

In order to get students up to speed with how things are in the outside world, I brought in a pedology of enacting mini-briefs. Theses are briefs that I have encountered and built in the real world. The students in Creative Computing MSc are a rather large group, ~120 in all. They are split into…

Working at UAL makes you feel proud, as they put Social Justice at the heart of everything they set up, meaning we put it at the centre of everything we do. Shades of Noir (SoN) is an independent programme which offers safer spaces to have critical conversations and interdisciplinary discussions around everything and anything to…

Religion in Britain: Challenges for Higher Education:Having just gone through a bereavement of my father, I have found this section challenging. Faith means many things to many people and is entirely personal to them, being a relationship between what we call a soul, what we call the world and what we call the unknown- and…

Film by Christine Sun Kim “Time Owes Me Rest Again” is a powerful and thought provoking film by deaf artist Christine Sun Kim. The film investigates ownership of sounds for the artist, also known as CK, who sees sounds as being for other people. She builds performance pieces using a variety of sound equipment and…