myblog | Ellen O'Gorman | Activity https://myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/members/22045054/activity/ Activity feed for Ellen O'Gorman. Tue, 12 May 2026 00:45:27 +0000 https://buddypress.org/?v=12.2.0 en-GB 30 hourly 2 fefd8c23ca49dcfeacdd7104b1ddf211 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=929 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:08:52 +0000 Bibliography

Kenn Lam – Spark: The Book Funeral (2021)

Teaching for people who prefer not to teach. M Bayerdoerfer and R Schweiker, 2017, Aldgate Press.

Advance HE – Inclusive curriculum design in hi […]

]]> 0 98bcf896120ae10c192d35b8a75591b3 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=925 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 12:02:39 +0000 Having been part of KaosPilot pedagogic course (re)structure training last year, there were some great exercises that I have been wanting to try out. KaosPilot often seeks only to frame an activity after it […]

]]> 0 0aede40effc59fb0b0baa44488dee1d6 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=921 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:57:07 +0000 OB1-Ellen-pre-obs-formDownload

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]]> 0 167264931f9a20590424db47a6cf3707 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=916 Fri, 08 Mar 2024 11:52:00 +0000 My teaching context

I am a fractional Co Stage Lead for the Product and Industrial Design undergraduate course (BA) at Central Saint Martins. I look after Stage 1, a culturally and skills diverse […]

]]> 0 0e848a501ee8a9730f74e797cf62d9d0 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=912 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 15:06:19 +0000 I look after Stage 1 which has units, 1, 2, 3 and 4. Looking at my stats for my stage but also my course I can see that outcomes are less favourable for international and home BAME students.

We provide so […]

]]> 0 022c0950c11f698583968d03d60228f0 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=909 Fri, 26 Jan 2024 14:25:44 +0000

]]> 0 81e3ad0db89eb31f36dfa4883938997b Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=897 Thu, 18 Jan 2024 12:28:26 +0000 I’ve been stabbing around in the dark a bit – I know that this ‘thing’ is a thing… but until yesterday the concept of the thing didn’t have a name.

In my discipline of Product design we are in the […]

]]> 0 7c325c2dbd600f2be50363956b61d573 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=889 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 17:18:41 +0000 THE JOY OF SKETCH – HOW CAN WE BREAK BARRIERS TO PARTICIPATION IN SKETCHING?

How do we break barriers in sketching? My research definitely uncovered some significant emotional barriers to sketching in my c […]

]]> 0 3d3e9a6e297fb0ace542cddc54579ba8 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=888 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 16:44:38 +0000 Sketching serves dual purposes: communication and problem-solving. When sketching for communication, artists and designers employ visual language to convey ideas to a broader audience. As emphasized by […]

]]> 0 19ac6b3829d8375821c472feb2400294 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=878 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 15:02:07 +0000 Have a look at my Miro board for a visual overview of my research.

Sketching is a highly emotive subject once you scratch the surface of the feelings with my students.

Confidence, pressure to […]

]]> 0 94b608289de78603df8174ee45198369 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=877 Mon, 01 Jan 2024 14:20:02 +0000 Is that they don’t contextualise each word… so the frequency of a particular word does not account for any negative or positive loading and the context in which it is mentioned.

So it wasn’t so easy to […]

]]> 0 b9af03b0f0dfdfd2398dd59ee7def341 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=860 Fri, 29 Dec 2023 21:18:17 +0000 the-joy-of-sketch-research-outputsDownload

The above file is to print my zine from… the files below are each a version of the above that work better in a digital […]

]]> 0 a203686033bc65115d9afeb5b32409d9 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=859 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 17:47:08 +0000 This research task was risky. It asked my students who will all have been largely taught that figurative outcomes are the most valid outcomes (in context of any previous product design learning or any online […]

]]> 0 c8da6e958fd2498d2538b69a4d903b88 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=853 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 16:43:11 +0000 Have a look at my Miro board here where I have been organising and planning my research…

I have used the Advance HE Action Research Guide to steer my work along with The design councils double […]

]]> 0 3d05f76e541fe56b9cd0b29627f529a6 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=851 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 15:28:04 +0000 AAAARGGGGGHHHH! Word clouds suck…

Using https://www.wordclouds.co.uk/ I have entered the text from all staff conversations to generate a word cloud for each question… this word cloud will guide my […]

]]> 0 858301b60d2d578e6508096690e90ade Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=841 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:19:19 +0000 AAAARGGGGGHHHH! Word clouds suck…

Using https://www.wordclouds.co.uk/ I have entered the transcribed text from all the student voices to generate a word cloud for each section of the conversation… thi […]

]]> 0 11c91a469747d98c9fd74d04dbaff115 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=837 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 11:13:44 +0000 AAAARGGGGGHHHH! Word clouds suck…

Using https://www.wordclouds.co.uk/ I have entered the transcribed text from all the student voices to generate a word cloud for each section of the conversation… this word […]

]]> 0 b43054ab229aa85a1c75cba18b8ee289 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=830 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:44:53 +0000 AAAARGGGGGHHHH! Word clouds suck…

Using https://www.wordclouds.co.uk/ I have entered the transcribed text from all the student voices to generate a word cloud for each section of the questionnaire… this word […]

]]> 0 6e32458b3a7e05c5e50b2dfbabf1d1bc Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=822 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 10:31:08 +0000 So this is my data dump…

Because I have quite a lot of data to sift through… and I want to be as objective as possible… I am going to use some word cloud software to help guide the data poetry themes […]

]]> 0 32bcb973e3527d9cd693ac750c290707 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=821 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 09:53:09 +0000 The next steps for this project would be to progress to approaching sketching not just by arming students with what would be currently seen as left field or more broadly ‘art’ based practices/skills experience… […]

]]> 0 8fd708758362d95b4ba1032cbf54e7bd Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=820 Wed, 20 Dec 2023 00:56:37 +0000 Visual literacy, or visualcy as I will refer to it in this project, is the ability to interpret, analyze, and create visual messages. Sketching, drawing, doodling is key to this.

Wherever you look, when […]

]]> 0 d85259f7bfcd23f7a8996c5d6c8f9ff9 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=817 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 23:43:44 +0000 Welcome to the final part of my PGCert studies in Academic Practice. I will be taking you on a journey of sketch led joy.

I had the most revelatory experience in a staff development workshop with Kaos […]

]]> 0 93581d8a86dd081392957888f32850db Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=808 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:56:29 +0000 You can see the final starter and finisher questionnaires as below links on MS Forms…

You can also see them exported here with the informed consent panel visible […]

]]> 0 e633b1a32e6fb8033905fdc105a50b04 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=800 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 22:24:13 +0000 **ALL IDENTIFYING DATA REDACTED**

So I think I have to admit… although the online forms were nice and easy… they do feel somewhat hygienic.

there is still some interesting feedback and certainly […]

]]> 0 52cc4236f09aa7c17bbe3a0578e0abd9 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=792 Tue, 19 Dec 2023 16:08:21 +0000 Alright… so this is what the next couple of moths has in store… lets see how closely I can keep to the plan!

This is created just as I move out of the research and development phase of the project, […]

]]> 0 9829570e8db259e5561ede799230d60f Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=786 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 15:18:29 +0000 I was really interested in the Visualising Research web resource – particularly all the diagrams that look at ways to analyse data in ‘Interpreting the Map’.

The diagram and method that best resonated with […]

]]> 0 ebeb12254449341f99764207844f3365 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=780 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 12:59:32 +0000 Its a good question… when I was circling round my secondary research and deciding what to do (have a look at the structure of that research here)… I knew that in my specific circumstances I wanted to do […]

]]> 0 cb73f2e8756efb9ccd34a962a3ea181a Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=782 Mon, 18 Dec 2023 11:51:20 +0000 In this project I have lit a fire… I’m not sure I really knew the spark was there before I started thinking about it. There is not usually time to think about this sort of thing too deeply in the day to […]

]]> 0 0f84ea5daa76195df4c6b65cad26a35c Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=776 Fri, 15 Dec 2023 14:14:04 +0000 Any sustainable definition of drawing should, I suspect, look beyond the tip ofthe pencil and the materials and techniques used by draftsmen and focus ondrawing as an intellectually driven process of translation. […]

]]> 0 4ff79c88689ea4e07c253f68df4e67bc Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=774 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 19:13:48 +0000 Whatever the psychological barriers that create this inhibition I have observed and researched, because sketching is such an important part of the design process (Goldschmidt 2014, Ferguson 1994, Thurlow 2018, […]

]]> 0 9a3472af9ee500a1c86dd94e0feea54b Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=770 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:10:44 +0000 I have been debating (as an internal narrative) the benefit that any of my students would get from having their artworks displayed in my research, and how if there is no direct benefit, is it ethical to […]

]]> 0 87f9cf0eb2e99a811454733a7019078f Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=771 Thu, 14 Dec 2023 16:06:12 +0000 I’ve been on a bit of a journey with my ethics…

Being that ethics is not something I have ever needed to think about in such academic terms I don’t think its surprising that there was a lot to […]

]]> 0 514042d296e7f5b6ac7fd41a18e3f734 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=767 Tue, 12 Dec 2023 17:00:29 +0000 I know that every single one of my teaching colleagues throughout UAL will have encountered this phenomenon at some point… either with individual students or (the more people I speak to about this at UAL) more […]

]]> 0 d0563dfd542fde5ec8b41d6d5f616fff Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=763 Sat, 09 Dec 2023 16:22:16 +0000 Ive been struggling with the beast that this has become…

And then I remembered the pandemic.

And that was awful. Mostly.

But Miro…. ah, Miro… twas to save the day.

Still a work […]

]]> 0 2cc6571cde139d23ef1788be310b0ca6 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=757 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 21:33:04 +0000 I am a Stage 1, fractional (0.4) Co-Lead on the BA Product & Industrial Design Course.

My cohort this year is currently comprised of 98 students of many nationalities. Home students represent 45% of the […]

]]> 0 2cf8e6d6793af7d9354773301076d33f Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=756 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 18:25:32 +0000 ADVANCE HE (2019). Criticality, Risktaking and Play: Futureproofing HE AdvanceHE Teaching And Learning Conference Teaching in The Spotlight: Innovation for Teaching Excellence 2 -4 th Portia Ungley. [online] […]

]]> 0 7fda8ecacb46b8fb3a87fe2211355987 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=754 Wed, 06 Dec 2023 13:57:49 +0000 OK, I get it. This is me… its OK to be me… I just don’t like advertising it. My positionality drawn over this in red – underlying diagram by Sylvia Duckworth.

wheel of power and privilege image posted on […]

]]> 0 bcccddc164963f9472c46445b0cccc0b Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=745 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:58:00 +0000 Its just sitting staring at me… still needing a plan.

]]> 0 a85e46e9e716d32275e250e4c83d4a65 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=741 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:46:20 +0000 Its crazy that design thinking is hailed as it is by Ken Robinson here in Creative Schools, and yet on our programme where design thinking is the predominant thinking and theory of process, there is still (I […]

]]> 0 5d745c56086c538f059a1936f45ed6ae Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=739 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 18:08:39 +0000 No passion so effectually robs the mind of all its powers of acting and reasoning as fear.Laredo, J.A. (2019). Edmund Burke, from On the Sublime and Beautiful (1757). pressbooks.pub, [online] 2(2). Available at: […]

]]> 0 2e7c94f197e2e55c644a597befde16a8 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=736 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 14:28:01 +0000 The definition of good and bad sketching/drawing in arts education? Does it emanate from us in HE, or is it (to some degree) put upon us not just from colonial baseline standards of acceptance but as Fava (2019) […]

]]> 0 72ecdd4c3a7e48da928d3568ce41ff10 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=725 Fri, 24 Nov 2023 09:37:08 +0000 I was really struggling with how to regurgitate my project and sift out the good lumps, until reading this book (Leigh, J. and Brown, N. (2021). Embodied Inquiry. Bloomsbury Publishing.) and doing the data […]

]]> 0 30d9e54cb20ff4294ed6c542c458d291 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=719 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:36:39 +0000 So we workshopped some data poetry.

Hurrah.

I get it!

A lot of what my ARP project is about came from reading around Austin Kleon’s work.

I like the below pages from ‘Steal like an Artist’ […]

]]> 0 c99759630af37affde26ed996755984a Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=717 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 16:09:33 +0000 By Aoife O’Gorman Age 6 – for mummy so she can find her way home

This exemplifies the current mood of happening in my ARP project.

There is a very definite plan. It’s complete and down on paper… […]

]]> 0 95a56e39d71bb94808d4b0b85e4279fb Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=692 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:55:07 +0000 For me, sometimes investigating the etymology of a word helps me better retain its meaning… I thought that joy is a good word for what I am trying to achieve…

The word comes from the old Latin for […]

]]> 0 ef61cb683c8d82a44df3de34baff5b7e Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=678 Wed, 22 Nov 2023 10:54:45 +0000 – https://blog.mahabali.me/

Criteria are like spectacles and sieves: they are the means by which we focus, capture

and […]

]]> 0 21c2d503a820fa718ae0061138aa4bb8 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=677 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 19:37:12 +0000 I have a couple of one to one staff sessions happening with staff who have participated in my sketch challenge and who are close to my project.

The questions that I have for my collegues are really a […]

]]> 0 6cff4b0b43e08a346ec79e74c8c1443a Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=671 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 18:59:24 +0000 I’m usually overly prepared and my materials looking lovely… this is how I started planning for my co-creation session with my 21 day sketch challenge ‘finisher’ students. For lots of reasons the method and […]

]]> 0 6148179f5fbdeb6948f12cafebed0ccc Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=670 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 15:03:18 +0000 we’ve often referred to these glossaries in TPP if helpful:

Key terms – Shades of Noir

Glossary – from A Handbook for Teaching and Learning in Higher Education (2006 – ed. Fry, Ketteridge and M […]

]]> 0 8a907fe624cd80145f10e45f1496af51 Ellen O'Gorman wrote a new post on the site Ellen's PGCert Blog https://ellenogorman.myblog-staging.arts.ac.uk/?p=667 Wed, 15 Nov 2023 12:35:23 +0000 This week has mostly been about gut feel…

The online surveys feel too hygienic.

So, now, for next week, I have planned a collaborative session with some students who have completed the […]

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