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Goldsmiths College, University of London
Goldsmiths College has a strong and growing international reputation for research as evidenced by successive Research Assessment Exercises. The College’s Research Strategy is designed to recognise the excellence of what has been achieved over the past decade, and to build on these achievements so as to enhance Goldsmiths’ international reputation and position in national and global markets, including the continued growth of research student provision.
The cultures of all Departments are founded on a commitment to research and research-led teaching. Students have the opportunity to participate in a lively research community through regular seminars and invited lectures, events and collaborations. The interdisciplinary and multidisciplinary nature of research at Goldsmiths provides a particularly rich and stimulating research environment for students who can experience encounters between leading international researchers forging new links between disciplines. Some of the more exciting recent developments include the new Centre for Research Architecture, Goldsmiths Digital Studios in collaboration with BT Exact, Cambridge MIT and Hexagram (Canada) as well as the Centre for Arts and Learning.
As well as Research Centres in the College promoting interdisciplinarity, there are many other research units in particular research areas, such as the Unit for Journalism Research, which participate in the supervision of research students, and/or host talks, workshops, conferences which research students can participate in and benefit from. As part of the University of London, Goldsmiths postgraduates are members of a world-class research community. Goldsmiths College has important links with other Colleges in the University of London, and other universities in London. Besides enhancing the general research environment, some of these directly involve research students, e.g. joint PhD workshops, and research networks.
Research students in Music, Design, Anthropology, Psychology and Computing have the opportunity to contribute to research projects in the Centre for Cognition, Computation and Culture (4Cs), located in the new purpose-built Ben Pimlott Building, which is specifically designed to integrate research initiatives across departments. The Whitehead seminars also organised by Computing and Psychology attract first-class international speakers, and provide students with opportunities to bridge discipline boundaries in high-level discussions.
The Department of Media and Communication, for example, runs an annual PhD conference jointly with the LSE, the University of Westminster and City University, where research students can present their research to their peers and research supervisors and receive feedback on their work and on their presentation skills. In addition they have joint symposia with New York University and universities in Oslo, Copenhagen and Lund.
As part of the University of London, Goldsmiths’ research students have access to the resources of the internationally renowned postgraduate research institutes of the School of Advanced Study. These offer academic opportunities, world-class library collections and stimulation across, and between a wide range of subject fields in the humanities and social sciences, where Goldsmiths students can attend courses, lectures and workshops.