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University of Hertfordshire

University of Hertfordshire

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  • Basic Facts
  • Mission & Strategy
  • Degree Areas
  • Key Teaching Staff
  • Successful Graduates

Basic Facts

  • Year of Foundation:

    1952

  • Year of Receiving CILECT Full Membership:

    2016

  • Year of Receiving Last State Accreditation:

    1992

  • Agency (-ies) Who Awarded the State Accreditation:

    University of Hertfordshire

  • Name of Director (Rector, Dean, Head of School):

    Phil Healey

  • Address:

    College Lane, Hatfield, AL10 9AB

  • Country:

    United Kingdom

  • Website:

    https://www.herts.ac.uk

  • Points of Contact

    CILECT Contact Person:
    Executive Assistant: Alex Jacobs
    Email:
    a.jacobs2@herts.ac.uk
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Programme Leaders Film & TV: Dannu Bell & Andrew Parker
    Email:
    d.bell5@herts.ac.uk / a.parker3@herts.ac.uk
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Programme Leaders Animation, Visual Effects & Games: Martin Bowman & Dr Daniel Goodbrey
    Email:
    m.p.bowman@herts.ac.uk / d.m.1goodbrey@herts.ac.uk
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Programme Leader Model & SFX: Nick Morgan
    Email:
    n.h.morgan@herts.ac.uk
    CILECT Contact Person:
    Programme Leader MA Film & TV Production: Howard Berry
    Telephone:
    +44 1707 28 53 83
    Email:
    h.w.berry@herts.ac.uk

Mission & Strategy

Our teaching philosophy is to produce industry ready graduates. There is a strong emphasis on the word professional throughout the course with an emphasis on ensuring final year work is of broadcast standard. The film and television department have strong links with industry, through professional contacts, to maximise student experience and employability. Over 90% of all students on the course are engaged in placements with top companies and broadcasters such as BBC, ITV and Shepperton Studios. The course has worked with more than 80 employers over the last year and in house corporate projects with employers including BMW, Grand Chappel Music, Britvic and Monarch. Final year work culminates in a dissertation and final film project, which students can use as a calling card into the industry.

The aspiration for our graduates is that they will have developed the knowledge, skills and attributes to equip them for life in a complex and rapidly changing world. In addition to their subject expertise and proficiency, the Programme’s graduates will have the following attributes:

• Professionalism, employability and enterprise
• Learning and research skills
• Intellectual depth, breadth and adaptability
• Respect for others
• Social responsibility

Key Teaching Staff

Lyndsay Duthie

Field of Teaching: Television Production
Website Reference: https://go.herts.ac.uk/lyndsay_duthie
Major Achievements:

The TV Studio Production Handbook, published by I.B. Taurus (2016)
3 times Vice Chancellor Award winner for Excellence in teaching and graduate success
Former Board Executive for WFTV
Worked at ITV (UK’s leading commercial broadcaster) for 10 years before forming my own company Ice Blue Media

Lyndsay Duthie is an Executive Producer with television credits for BBC, ITV, Channel 4, Discovery Network and SKY. Her career began at ITV where she spent 10 years originating and producing hit programmes, becoming one of the country’s youngest series producers aged 23, and part of the Edinburgh International Television Festival EITF’s ‘Ones to Watch’ alumni. From ITV Lyndsay moved to Endemol, before founding her own company Ice Blue Media. She has served on the Board of Directors for Women in Film & TV (WFTV) and judged at the Royal Television Society Awards and International Emmys. Lyndsay is a Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and winner of the Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Graduate Success (2014) and Engagement with Business, Industries and Professions (2015) and Excellence in Teaching (2016). Documentary work has included Kentucky Teenage Vampires, Schoolboy Dad and Family Confidential for Channel 5 , Family Feuds for ITV and Channel 4’s Best Friends. Entertainment work has included BBC2’s Food and Drink, ITV’s I Want That House, ITV’s That’s Esther and Loose Women.

Peter Richardson

Field of Teaching: Professor of Film
Website Reference: https://go.herts.ac.uk/peter_richardson
Major Achievements:

Peter Richardson is Professor of film and subject group leader for Screen Media. Peter has directed over 100 commercials (Nike, Kia Cars, Mercedes, Fred Olsen), 120 music videos (Blur, 808 State, Jason Donovan, The Stranglers) Peter’s feature length documentaries have been broadcast in 7 countries and his short films have been screened in festivals across the world including London, Out Takes Brazil, New York, Claermont-Ferrand, Cannes and Cork. Peter’s current research investigates the application of new technologies for the creation of visual effects rich cinematic narratives. He is Director of the Games and Visual Effects Research Lab where he heads a team of researchers investigating the deployment of immersive and mixed reality technologies for cinema and games. From 2010 to 2013 Peter was principle investigator of the €5.3M EU funded ‘North Sea Screen Partnership’. In 2016 he received €1.6M in EU funding for ‘Create Converge’ a pan European project which aims to map and develop Northern Europe’s capabilities in Film, Games and immersive visualization. Peter recently directed a feature film adaptation of Sir Peter Maxwell Davises Opera “Miss Donnithorne’s Maggott” which premiered at The 2013 St Magnus Festival and has played at Singapore, Cannes, Hamburg film festivals. Miss Donnithornes Maggott was released on Blu Ray in 2015.

Howard Berry

Field of Teaching: Post-Production

Mike Newell

Field of Teaching: Doctor of Arts, Directing
Major Achievements:

Director for blockbusters such as Harry Potter and Four Weddings and a Funeral

Kim Akass

Field of Teaching: Critical Studies, expert in American TV Series
Website Reference: https://go.herts.ac.uk/kim_akass
Major Achievements:

Author of numerous books published by I.B Tauris featuring Sex in the City and Ugly Betty

Chris Chandler

Field of Teaching: Business of Television
Major Achievements:

Former executive at BFI (British Film Institute) UK Film Council and Screen South

Val Kuklowsky

Field of Teaching: Professor of Sound Design
Major Achievements:

Sound Designer for Hollywood Blockbusters such as:
Independence Day
Parental Guidance

Lovejit Dhaliwal

Field of Teaching: Senior Lecturer, Documentary
Major Achievements:

BBC Panorama, Producer
BBC Worldwide News, Producer

Mark Wallman

Field of Teaching: Programme Leader for VFX
Major Achievements:

VFX for Doctor Who

Kate Kinninmont

Field of Teaching: Professor Gender and Media
Major Achievements:

CEO of Women in Film & TV UK (WFTV)
Awarded MBE in 2015

Successful Graduates

Nat Valente

Field of Studies: Director, Drama
Major Achievements:

Royal Television Society Winner for Best Film, Breach

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