This semester’s teaching on the MA has been under the rubric of ‘professional development’. Throughout higher education in the UK, a focus on students’ ‘employability’ is predicated on a largely unexamined set of assumptions about the relationship between the individual and the labour market and about economic growth and investment in human capital. ‘Outcomes and […]
Category: AD7904 Professional Development
The Ashington District Star
The aim of the Ashington District Star project was “to inspire a new group of photographers and artists, of all ages and abilities, to look at Ashington today and creatively document the area and its community.” (Evaluation Report, 2015). Ashington is one of the largest towns in Northumberland and developed around its pit which opened in […]
Andrew Newman: The Great British (Part 2)
People and Power The project published as The Great British in 1979, was developed jointly by The Sunday Times and the National Portrait Gallery. Newman was invited to come to the UK to photograph 75 or so ‘celebrities’ who would, in the opinion of those making the selection, be remembered 50 years hence. Most of […]
