Industry links
Media industries
The Department recognizes the importance of maintaining close contact with the media industries its students aspire to work in. It has cultivated a number of strong links with industry, which have led to many of our graduates occupying prominent positions.
Visiting professionals
Visitors, from industry specialists to independent artists, play an integral role in all of our courses, offering contemporary perspectives on life at the cutting edge of the rapidly evolving media industries.
Industry Advisory Panels
To ensure close ties with the media industries, the Department has links with a number of experienced, established professionals, including our own graduates, who advise on the very latest developments.
Industry Advisory Panel members include:
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Annie Caulfield (freelance writer, producer)
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Stuart Clark (Animate and Create)
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Jon Dennis (freelance director)
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Andy Garland (Senior Broadcast Journalist, BBC Radio Kent)
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Jon Holmes (writer, comedian, presenter)
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Damien Marchi (Vice President, Production, FMX, FremantleMedia)
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Paula Moore (Jumping Astronaut)
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Jackie Sheppard (Footprint Films)
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Jan Dunn (Maeve Films)
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Martin Hobbs (former graduate, Managing Director VFX & View D. London, part of Prime Focus)
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Garret Keogh (the former head of digital content at MTV and cross platform director at Zodiak Media Group, has teamed up a number of partners to set up Telegraph Hill)
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Phil Gallagher (former graduate, children's TV presenter best known for his role as Mister Maker on CBeebies, writer, producer and performer)
View March 2011 Panel »|
BBC Radio Kent
The BBC runs a studio from within the Department's home building. A number of our students are given the opportunity to work in the studio, an experience that has helped many gain employment with the BBC.
Department lecturers visit Martin Scorsese
In 2009, lecturers Eddie McMillan and Bryan Hawkins visited the set of Martin Scorsese's new film
Shutter's Island. Eddie and Bryan were invited to meet Scorsese's Oscar-winning editor Thelma Schoonmaker-Powell (an Honorary Fellow of the University) on location in Boston.
'It was the most amazing, enlightening and inspiring experience and one which we shall treasure for many years to come. To see such a great artist and team at work was such a great privilege', Eddie explained. Bryan also took inspiration: 'We were inspired by the intensity, passion and precision of the complex creative process unfolding on location in Massachusetts'.
The visit was to consolidate the continuing relationship between the Department, Schoonmaker-Powell, and Scorsese. Eddie and Bryan continued: 'We had a very productive meeting with Thelma that will allow for more Powell and Scorsese related events to happen in the Department, the University, and the city of Canterbury'.
Thelma Schoonmaker interview with Eddie McMillan