Goldsmiths Research and Enterprise

17/02/2023

Do you own a small business or are you a creative professional and need help standing out in a competitive market?

Join our introductory 5-week course and learn how to build a website from the ground up to increase interest and engagement in your products or services: https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/introduction-to-web-development/

28 February - 28 March, Tuesday evenings, 6.30-8.30pm, on campus

Learn how to define your business or brand’s story your website needs to support and learn how best to design a website to meet those requirements using the two foundational web design languages: HTML & CSS.

Join us on this introductory course to learn how to build websites from the ground up using HTML, CSS and Javascript.

15/02/2023

LAST CHANCE to enrol on our 6-week live online course designed to help you control your nerves and improve your confidence: https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/creativity-confidence-public-speaking/ starting next Tuesday!

💥 Use the promo code FLASH15 for 15% off!

Gain tools to reset, refresh and unlock your best potential; drawing on social science theories and using improvisation techniques explore topics such as social interaction, active listening, body language, group cohesion and presenting skills. Expect an encounter with your inner critic and find lots of opportunities to try, fail, and try again!

21 February - 28 March, Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30pm
Delivered live and online through Zoom

Victoria Hogg
The Offer Bank
Goldsmiths Theatre and Performance Department

This six-week course introduces you to the key principles underpinning comedy improvisation while creating a more confident you.

02/02/2023

LAST CHANCE to book onto our introductory course to creative writing starting next Tuesday! Book before 4pm this Friday to secure your place.

Discover how to begin writing your own poetry, short stories, and longer-form prose, developing your work through a series of supportive workshops, led by writer and Goldsmiths lecturer Dr Livia Franchini: https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/intro-to-creative-writing/

7 February - 5 April, 10 weeks, Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30pm

The Department of English & Creative Writing ,Goldsmiths

Finding your writing voice is like finding your own voice in life, and this course enables you to let go of writing inhibitions, developing your own distinctive form of expression

18/01/2023

💥 Flash Sale 💥 We’re offering 15% off three of our upcoming courses... this is a limited time offer so don't wait! Use the promo code: FLASH15

🔸 Masters of S*x: Feminisms, S*xuality and the Archive
31 January - 11 April, 10 weeks, Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30pm
https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/masters-of-sex/

🔸 Understanding the Culture Wars: From the 1960s to the Present Day
7 February - 11 April, 9 weeks, Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30pm
https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/understanding-the-culture-wars/

🔸 Psychology of Fashion: Making Fashion work for you
22 February - 22 March, 5 weeks, Wednesdays, 6.30-8.30pm
https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/psychology-of-fashion/

This course offers a historical explanation for our divided times. Looking back to the Countercultural revolution of the 1960s, to Civil Rights, and the rise of Feminism.

11/11/2022

Today is the last chance to sign up to our 5-week introductory web design and user experience course, delivered on Tuesday evenings in Goldsmiths computing labs! https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/introduction-to-web-development/

Learn how to build websites from the ground up using the two foundational web design languages: HTML & CSS - desirable skills for a wide range of employers!

Join us on this introductory course to learn how to build websites from the ground up using HTML, CSS and Javascript.

10/11/2022

💥 Last call for aspiring comic book creators!! 💥
Book before 2pm today to join our 2-day intensive course delivered by multi-award-winning author and illustrator Alexis Deacon 🦸 starting THIS Saturday! https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/creating-comics-graphic-novels/

Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths

This four-week course explores what makes a compelling comic and graphic novel, and will help you take the first steps towards making an original story of your own creation.

09/11/2022

LAST CHANCE - book before 2pm tomorrow to join on to our 2-day Creating Comics and Graphic Novels short course starting this Saturday, delivered on campus by multi-award-winning author and illustrator Alexis Deacon: https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/creating-comics-graphic-novels/

Department of Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, Goldsmiths

This four-week course explores what makes a compelling comic and graphic novel, and will help you take the first steps towards making an original story of your own creation.

20/10/2022

Need help finding your writing voice?

In 5-weeks you can learn how to use writing devices and self-edit your work with confidence on our live introductory course to creative writing: https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/intro-to-creative-writing/ - Click the link to book now and start this course on Saturday 12 November!

Through a series of supportive workshops delivered once a week by one of our experienced writers and academics you’ll write several short pieces of creative writing and produce one polished story or poem.

Enhance your imagination and gain valuable writing skills transferrable to other fields and that will enrich your work!

The Department of English & Creative Writing ,Goldsmiths

Finding your writing voice is like finding your own voice in life, and this course enables you to let go of writing inhibitions, developing your own distinctive form of expression

21/09/2022

Are you an experienced writer, aspiring amateur poet or a complete beginner to poetry?

Designed for all levels, this 10 week course will teach you how to read and write poetry, and cultivate literary skills that can be transferred to other fields of work and to future writing projects.

Through a series of live online workshops you'll develop essential tools to help you edit, revise and polish your own work, as well as critical skills to help you articulate your understanding and appreciation of poetic form.

Each week, in a supportive group of like-minded writers you'll craft verses, improving upon your writing techniques whilst also developing your ability to analyse, comment and review your own and others work.

29 September - 8 December, Thursday evenings, 6.30-8.30pm
Delivered live and online through Zoom

Find our more and book your place now, here: https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/how-to-write-poetry/

The Department of English & Creative Writing ,Goldsmiths

Wordsworth defined poetry as ‘the spontaneous overflow of powerful feelings.’ While ‘feelings’ are an important aspect of poetry, form also helps to shape ideas in interesting ways.

20/06/2022

Our expert academics are delivering workshops on entering new markets, leading a business and how to hire the right skills over the next couple of weeks. Places are limited so don’t miss out and sign up today. The first one is taking place 21st June 2022.

Workshop 1 – Creating New Market Space, 21st June 2-4pm

When firms launch innovative new products, a compelling value proposition for customers is often not enough – firms also have to create new market space for their products to succeed. This workshop will explore the challenges involved in the creation of new market space and show how they can be overcome.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/creating-new-market-space-tickets-347029072297

Workshop 2 – Leading and Managing your Business, 23rd June 2-4pm

Building behaviours, making decisions, and leading yourself and others can be a challenge. Businesses often emerge quickly and develop in an adhoc way without the structures, planning and thinking in place for them to be as effective and profitable as they might be.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/leading-and-managing-your-business-tickets-367559409087

Workshop 3 – Recruiting, developing and managing teams, 29th June 2-4pm

Have you already recruited or are thinking about recruiting staff? This workshop will explore how you recruit new team members and how you develop and manage them to deliver for your business and themselves. The workshop will offer some thinking about the ways in which you develop and manage your team, from understanding what staffing needs your business has, through management, communication, support and development.

Register: https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/recruiting-developing-and-managing-teams-tickets-367569278607

25/05/2022

This Summer interrogate your artistic imagination and improve your writing technique on this unique 5-week 'poetry inspired by art' course held at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art - voted best gallery in Time Out London’s 2021 Best of the City Awards!

Suitable for both new and experienced writers, this course will provide you with practical guidance on how to work with and immerse yourself in art and use it as a springboard for creating your own original verse.

Perform close readings by published authors, draft and develop your own poems, and give and receive constructive feedback in a mutually supportive working group, with exclusive, out of hours access to the gallery.

8 June - 6 July, Wednesdays, 6.30-8.30pm
Delivered in-person at Goldsmiths Centre for Contemporary Art

Find out more and book your place now here:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/writing-from-art-poetry-cca/

The Department of English & Creative Writing ,Goldsmiths

“Ekphrasis” is a literary device in which a visual work of art is described in detail. On this course, you will practice ekphrasis in a broader fashion, by drawing out particular themes in artwork from Goldsmiths’ Centre for Contemporary Art (CCA), voted best gallery in Time Out Lo...

28/04/2022

Spaces still available on our upcoming Creativity, Confidence and Public Speaking short course, starting next week!

Gain tools to help you become more confident and comfortable in the present moment.

Drawing on a range of social science theories and using improvisation techniques on this course you’ll explore topics such as social interaction, active listening, body language, group cohesion and presenting skills. Expect an encounter with your inner critic and find lots of opportunities to try, fail, and try again!

3 May - 7 June, Tuesdays, 6.30-8.30pm
Delivered live and online through Zoom

Find out more and book your place now, here:
https://www.gold.ac.uk/short-courses/unlock-your-confidence-and-charisma/

This six-week course introduces you to the key principles underpinning comedy improvisation while creating a more confident you.