Culture and the role of the state

The Media & Culture Research Group's next event is a talk by Munira Mirza, director of policy on Arts, Culture & the Creative Industries for the Mayor of London. Click here for futher details, or here if you're on Facebook. Details of all of this semester's events can be found here.

get your hands DIRT(Y)

here's a wiki with information about tools and resources that can help scholars (particularly in the humanities and social sciences) - that means YOU! - conduct research more efficiently or creatively.

Digital Research Tools (DiRT) wiki

In the citation and management tols section, http://digitalresearchtools.pbwiki.com/Citation+Management+Tools you'll find one of my favorite tools: zotero. It lives in your (firefox) browser and makes your reading and note-taking life so much fun!

Photographic Workshop

I'm going to organise a photographic workshop, I think it will be good to get immersed in the facilities that are avaialble. I'll find out who's going to do it and get some dates. If anyone's interested let me know, I'll post this on Facebook too & email the rest with dates, as I know not everyone's on here.

Eager to get started but...

...I'm feeling slightly lost. I've printed a document from the lsbu site outlining the four dimensions of study. Have any of the other first year students looked through it?

I think I need guidance on how to apply the four dimensions to writing my project proposal, which is our first task. I'm doing a lot of reading and perhaps I am already applying the four dimensions without realising it. Should I separate my note-taking out and assign them to whichever dimension they apply to?

I don't understand at all the explaination of "Critical and reflective practice" in the document, in fact it makes me dizzy, but I will hopefully pick my tutor's brains and get a layman's explaination.

Thanks for setting this up Lorraine - Wendy

The journey ahead

Well I have a stack of books on photography, cultural theory, energy fields and study skills so I hope this blog will help me to focus my attention! There's just over 3 months until the first assessment on May 8th, seems like a fair amount of time but I know it will fly.

I'm going to develop this blog over time and find out if I can upload documents etc. Meanwhile the next event at LSBU is "Culture and the Role of the State", on Tuesday 24th Feb @ 7pm. I think someone suggested meeting up in London for a drink & chat, even if we don't go to this talk.