myblog | Alex Marshall | Activity https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/members/21038881/activity/ Activity feed for Alex Marshall. Thu, 21 May 2026 15:51:49 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.2.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 4bf35402bd4b4f30f45ee173efef9b97 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=43 Fri, 29 Jul 2022 07:36:35 +0000 INTRODUCTION TO ARTEFACT

My artefact is an intervention in my teaching practice where I share examples from films that are indicative of various filmmaking considerations I subsequently teach the students. My […]

]]> 0 742034b82a7146f2ef6b2e8d8cd99f34 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=42 Wed, 20 Jul 2022 13:59:51 +0000 Shades of Noir –  “In Conversation with Khaleb Brooks: Exploring Blackness, Transness and Collective Memory” by Jess Wan

I read the interview “In Conversation with Khaleb Brooks: Exploring Blackness, Transness […]

]]> 0 794506526ad15607d5449e495c99223b Alex Marshall commented on the post, Notes on beliefs, on the site *C Holdsworth | PG-Cert* https://cmhhjournal.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2022/05/26/notes-on-beliefs/#comment-6 Tue, 28 Jun 2022 11:40:20 +0000 I would also like to thank you for this wealth of resources! So much to pick through and consider.
I feel that I recognise very closely your understanding of Religion and ‘practice’ as someone who considers […]

]]> 0c0fc33747d314b4fdeea0ffe17848e8 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=39 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:57:17 +0000 Social Justice / Buddhism / Queerness

I read the article by Tiffany Webster, ‘Social Justice / Buddhism / Queerness’. What strikes me in this text is the consideration of paradoxes, and this led me to ref […]

]]> 0 32a54a5597bd542788b4b0ccbd1c94e4 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=38 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:56:59 +0000 I found this lecture fascinating in the context of storytelling; in how we tell our own stories about ourselves (to ourselves and to the world) and how we tell the stories of others to ourselves through […]

]]> 0 08f5d18ce9f462ccffa0203747ccc294 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=31 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:56:40 +0000 I looked at the headings ‘Multiculturalism’, ‘The ‘Vaguely Christian’ UK’, and ‘Religion and knowledge of religion in UK universities’. Below are some reflections on my reading of these articles with a bit of a […]

]]> 0 db2f14d512fb94bf03dea8c3c15c9af6 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=36 Thu, 02 Jun 2022 12:56:16 +0000 Browsing this excellent collection of resources made me consider the concept of the archive in relation to moving viewpoints and changing conversations around identity and inclusivity. Some of the articles […]

]]> 0 73fa45b7cc41dc2c878ed337868a5c8a Alex Marshall commented on the post, Blog 1: Disability (Christine Sun Kim), on the site Certiculate https://adepgcert.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2022/05/10/blog-1-disability-christine-sun-kim/#comment-11 Mon, 16 May 2022 16:34:39 +0000 Hi Ade,

I really enjoy your internal conversations and agree with what has been said in previous comments. I particularly like how you introduce examples as remenicences in a reflective context, as though […]

]]> 07d9bb7a3802ae880f26fc0e3f07c51e Alex Marshall commented on the post, Blogging Task One – Disability, on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2022/05/08/blogging-task-one-disability/#comment-5 Sun, 15 May 2022 12:16:31 +0000 Thanks Zeinab, I am delighted to hear you have engaged with the work I cited. It relates to both the film resource from Christine Sun Kim, and to further concepts of invisible disabilities. I am particluarly […]

]]> abab179e60cd059e30b2eecd681c231d Alex Marshall commented on the post, Blogging Task One – Disability, on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2022/05/08/blogging-task-one-disability/#comment-4 Sun, 15 May 2022 12:07:46 +0000 Hi Ade,

I’m sorry that my blogging style has proven to be overloading for you, I completely accept that my method of writing can be overly verbose. This is naturally how I formulate my thoughts when writing, […]

]]> 4109fd8960246209a542fc7fd99f24b4 Alex Marshall commented on the post, Seeing sounds (and other hierarchies of perception), on the site *C Holdsworth | PG-Cert* https://cmhhjournal.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/2022/05/14/seeing-sounds-and-other-hierarchies-of-perception%ef%bf%bc/#comment-2 Sun, 15 May 2022 11:59:56 +0000 Hi Claire,

Whilst reading your blog, I was really struck by the concept of the synchronicity of experience, and so jotted down a few thoughts around this. Apologies if this is quite a long comment.

You […]

]]> 68037221e15d4142e0b773d98ef8c954 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=26 Sun, 08 May 2022 13:34:28 +0000 Below are my responses and reflections after engaging with the resources explored for this task. While in places I have made overtly specific reflections to individual resources, elsewhere there is some crossover […]

]]> 0 cbb39030d7132b711c50683b7853877a Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=24 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 15:29:30 +0000 Is an etymological approach helpful in teaching practice/theory, ultimately as a means of making through experimentation?As a method of demystifying the language of academia and of film practice, I teach film […]

]]> 0 757b48de3da48258ca5e97c5c49c1423 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=21 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 14:50:13 +0000 In this seminar the question was posed: What value/s in Art & Design education? In our groups we discussed this question, first in a general sense, and later, after a discussion with the wider group, how we […]

]]> 0 77fe7ca18d28d078c04496f1c6e75fee Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=19 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 09:58:41 +0000 My initial apprehension about the prospect of the peer observation element of the PGCert was entirely ego-based; imposter syndrome as a new lecturer can be intense when surrounded by many experienced […]

]]> 0 2d02ae1ce6e372b60550e1818d18ec28 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=9 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:54:53 +0000 Looking askance, new lenses, fresh perspectives: how to disentangle a student from their tendency to be trying to simply ‘get the job done’ as final year hand in approaches

“Entwistle and Entwistle (1991 […]

]]> 0 77b7b1d0100692caa70af66dd0152c5b Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=3 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:35:09 +0000 In my role as a content producer for London College of Fashion, I have discovered over the years what a privileged position it is to be aware of, and known to, so many different areas of my institution. Most […]

]]> 0 ccc1050e478c9039f9ed35848eac8caa Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=13 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:15:28 +0000 “…the defining characteristic of this model is the importance of the one-to-one relationship, generally between two teachers, which is designed to support Continued Professional Development (CPD).” Kennedy, 2 […]

]]> 0 f5c4dea1493fb7e37603d544de3877f3 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=5 Mon, 21 Mar 2022 08:14:39 +0000 In presenting to the group in our first seminar together, I offered some background to my practice and how it has influenced my thinking in regards to teaching and learning. In preparation for the session, I had […]

]]> 0 d265fdab442ccc688072b8f1ac81f908 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=14 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:54:22 +0000 The experience of the day of Microteaching sessions was an intensive experience for anyone who stayed for the entire day. Many different methods were employed in a wide variety of teaching contexts. This was both […]

]]> 0 ef290cd7c2d6ac759dac790d9b6ee405 Alex Marshall wrote a new post on the site PGCert 2022 https://apmarshall2.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=10 Wed, 09 Mar 2022 10:53:31 +0000 I had the idea for my object-based microteaching session very early on during the course. In choosing the object I was influenced by my experiences over ten years as a cinema projectionist, my Master’s t […]

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