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Goldsmiths is working to meet a set of commitments made to Goldsmiths for Palestine (G4P), following the group’s occupation of the Professor Stuart Hall building in Spring term 2024. The College’s ...
Children’s responses to literature are at the heart of a “breakthrough” book which brings together innovative research by students at Goldsmiths. The new work entitled Children’s Literature in Action ...
The “tortured artist” is a long-standing stereotype, but is it a creative myth or reality? A new study by researchers at Goldsmiths has found a link between a positive emotional state, wellbeing and ...
An academic from Goldsmiths, University of London has published a guide to building an ‘air quality garden’, detailing which plants are best equipped to combat harmful pollutants. The ‘Phyto-sensor’ ...
New research on the rise of independent funeral celebrants will challenge narratives about secularisation in the UK and the supposed decline of religion in end-of-life rituals. A content analysis of ...
‘Liveness’ is central to dance, theatre and music performance – and to political rallies, sports events, reality TV and university lectures – but what exactly sets live experiences apart from recorded ...
Pollution levels in South East London reached six times the World Health Organisation (WHO) limit on several occasions during the last year, new research from Goldsmiths, University of London suggests ...
A new Goldsmiths, University of London project will map hurricane adaptations, survivals and recoveries in the Caribbean, creating a resource to help mitigate future disasters. Led by Dr Adom ...
In the new millennium, science fiction has moved from the margins to the mainstream. At the same time, it has undergone massive transformations. No longer can it be derided as indigestible ...
Haleh Agar has won the Royal Society of Literature’s Literature Matters Award for her project Writing Back to the Coloniser: The Power of Gothic Fiction, which will result in a novel. Launched in 2018 ...
British citizens who agreed that immigrants threaten their values and way of life were more likely to have voted to leave the EU, research led by Goldsmiths, University of London has found. This ...
In Photography After Capitalism, Ben Burbridge makes the case for a radically expanded conception of photography, encompassing the types of labor too often obscured by black-boxed technologies, slick ...