Goldsmiths - University of London

Adam Cresswell

Please note: From 17th January 2010, Adam will be on a 7 month secondment in the Department of Computing as Department Business Manager.  

Adam is the GLEU Administrator who is responsible for the operational management aspects of the unit as well as coordinating a number of strategic projects, including GLEU’s student facing activities.

He is the main contact regarding operational and administrative procedures and functions and, as such, duties include acting as Records Management Coordinator, coordinating workshops and conferences, financial planning and managing the departmental budgets. Adam also works with academic departments and support units in enhancement related projects such as the Learning and Teaching Fellowships and the Learning and Teaching Forum.

Additionally, Adam manages strategic led projects including those related to professional development for students. Working in conjunction with the Students’ Union, Careers Service and others, he has developed, and has operational responsibility for, ‘The Gold Award’. The award rewards students for demonstrating personal and professional initiative through the recording of transferable and employability skills development. Adam also manages the Goldsmiths’ institutional scheme of Personal Development Planning, called 3D Graduate.

He is coordinator of Goldsmiths Administrators Forum (GAF) and the Branch Coordinator for the national Association of University Administrators.  Adam spent a year on the AUA Board of Studies and his own personal development record is currently the exemplar portfolio used by the association.

Academic qualifications

(current study) Level 5 Certificate in Coaching and Mentoring (Institute of Leadership & Management)

PG Cert in HE Administration and Management (AUA / Open University)

MA in Film and Drama (University of Reading)

BA Humanities (University of Wales)

Grants & awards

2010 Oxford Brookes / University of Reading Progression and Retention Fellowship (£1000)

2010 AUA Fellowship supporting CPD Framework

2008 Peake Learning and Teaching Award (£400 personal award)

Conferences

(in preparation) June 2011: AUA Regional Event, Goldsmiths University of London “An introduction to learning and teaching pedagogies using models employed in the Star Wars movies”

November 2010: AUA London Region Conference, City University London, “The Administrator in Fiction”

April 2010: Enabling a More Complete Education, SCEPTRE, University of Surrey, “The Gold Award: Poster Presentation”

March 2010: AUA Annual Conference, University of Warwick “The Administrator in Fiction”

August 2009: AUA Regional Event, Goldsmiths University of London “The Administrator in Fiction”

March 2008: AUA Annual Conference, University of York “Graduating in 3D: An alternative take on Personal Development Planning”
 

Research interests

CPD; Coaching and Mentoring; Personal Development Planning; Personal Development Awards for Students; The Administrator in Fiction; The representation of learning and teaching in popular film