Ben Goldsmith

Dr Ben Goldsmith

  • Lecturer in Education Excellence
  • Fusion Building FG04, Talbot Campus, Fern Barrow, Poole, BH12 5BB
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Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person's work contributes towards the following SDGs:

Good health and well-being

"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"

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Good health and well-being

"Ensure healthy lives and promote well-being for all at all ages"

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Quality education

"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"

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Quality education

"Ensure inclusive and equitable quality education and promote lifelong learning opportunities for all"

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Reduced inequalities

"Reduce inequality within and among countries"

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Journal Articles

  • Potter, A. and Goldsmith, B., 2017. Reality’s children: young people and factual entertainment television. Media International Australia, 164 (1), 44-55.
  • Dezuanni, M., Cunningham, S., Goldsmith, B. and Miles, P., 2017. Teachers' curation of Australian screen content for school-based education. Media International Australia, 163 (1), 87-96.
  • Ryan, M.D. and Goldsmith, B., 2017. Returning to Australian horror film and Ozploitation cinema debate. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 11 (1), 2-4.
  • Goldsmith, B., Cunningham, S. and Dezuanni, M., 2017. Screen production for education: Digital disruption in an 'ancillary' market. Media International Australia, 162 (1), 65-77.
  • Ryan, M.D. and Goldsmith, B., 2016. Reviewing Australian screen history. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 10 (2), 179-183.
  • Goldsmith, B. and Bridgstock, R., 2015. Embedded creative workers and creative work in education. Journal of Education and Work, 28 (4), 369-387.
  • Bridgstock, R., Goldsmith, B., Rodgers, J. and Hearn, G., 2015. Creative graduate pathways within and beyond the creative industries. Journal of Education and Work, 28 (4), 333-345.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Sport and the transformation of Australian television. Media International Australia, 70-79.
  • Goldsmith, B. and Ryan, M.D., 2015. Introduction. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2, 6-15.
  • Dezuanni, M. and Goldsmith, B., 2015. Disciplining the screen through education: The Royal Commission into the Moving Picture Industry in Australia. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 9 (3), 298-311.
  • Goldsmith, B., Ward, S. and O'Regan, T., 2014. VAULTAGE: Dino De Laurentiis and Australia: Creating a film industry on the gold coast. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 8 (1), 70-75.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2012. Cinematic and televisual cities. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 5 (3), 215-221.
  • Goldsmith, B., Cunningham, S. and Thomas, J., 2012. Convergence and Australian content: The importance of access. Media International Australia, 13-18.
  • Goldsmith, B. and Thomas, J., 2012. The Convergence Review and the future of Australian content regulation. Telecommunications Journal of Australia, 62 (3), 441-4412.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2012. Below the Line: Producers and Production Studies in the New Television Economy. MEDIA INTERNATIONAL AUSTRALIA, 179-180.
  • Goldsmith, B., Lee, K.S. and Yecies, B., 2011. In search of the Korean digital wave. Media International Australia, 70-77.
  • Yecies, B., Shim, A.G. and Goldsmith, B., 2011. Digital intermediary: Korean transnational cinema. Media International Australia, 137-145.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2011. Australian content and convergence. Media International Australia, 12-15.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2010. Outward-looking australian cinema. Studies in Australasian Cinema, 4 (3), 199-214.
  • Ward, S., O'Regan, T. and Goldsmith, B., 2010. From neighbours to packed to the Rafters: Accounting for longevity in the evolution of Aussie soaps. Media International Australia, 162-176.
  • O'regan, T. and Goldsmith, B., 2006. Making Cultural Policy: Meeting Cultural Objectives in a Digital Environment. Television & New Media, 7 (1), 68-91.
  • Goldsmith, B. and O’Regan, T., 2004. LOCOMOTIVES AND STARGATES: Inner‐city studio complexes in Sydney, Melbourne and Toronto. International Journal of Cultural Policy, 10 (1), 29-45.
  • Goldsmith, B., 1999. "The comfort lies in all the things you can do": The Australian drive-in - Cinema of distraction. Journal of Popular Culture, 33 (1), 153-164.
  • Goldsmith, B., 1997. Government, Film and the National Image: Reappraising the Australian Film Development Corporation. Australian Studies, 9.

Books

Chapters

  • Holley, D., Goldsmith, B. and Fevyer, D., 2020. Inspiring learning through technology. In: Pokorny, H. and Warren, D., eds. Enhancing Teaching Practice in Higher Education. SAGE.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2019. Is everything awesome?: The LEGO movie and the australian film industry. A Companion to Australian Cinema. 149-164.
  • Bridgstock, R., Goldsmith, B., Rodgers, J. and Hearn, G., 2018. Introduction: Creative Graduate Pathways Beyond the Creative Industries. Creative graduate pathways within and beyond the creative industries. Routledge.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2017. UnAustralians: Australian characters in non-Australian films. Australian Screen in the 2000s. 77-98.
  • Ryan, M.D. and Goldsmith, B., 2017. Australian screen in the 2000s: An introduction. Australian Screen in the 2000s. 1-21.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Walk into paradise (aka walk into Hell). Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 63-65.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Bad eggs. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 82-83.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Balibo. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 178-180.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Deathcheaters. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 56-57.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Tomorrow, when the war Began. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 58-60.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. The craic. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 83-85.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. BMX bandits. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 54-55.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Ground zero. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 182-184.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. The chain reaction. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 184-186.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. The killing of Angel Street. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 188-190.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Thriller. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 172-177.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Action and adventure. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 48-53.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. Red hill. Directory of World Cinema: Australia and New Zealand 2. 218-221.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2015. ‘It’s Africa. It’s Arizona. It’s Antarctica. It’s Afghanistan. Actually, it’s Alberta’: Marketing Locations to Film Producers. Film Marketing into the Twenty-First Century. 174-184.
  • Ryan, M.D., Goldsmith, B., Cunningham, S. and Verhoeven, D., 2014. The Australian screen producer in transition. Beyond the Bottom Line: The Producer in Film and Television Studies. 125-142.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2014. The Smartphone App Economy and App Ecosystems. In: Goggin, G. and Hjorth, L., eds. The Routledge Companion to Mobile Media. Routledge.
  • Hearn, G., Bridgstock, R., Goldsmith, B. and Rodgers, J., 2014. Creative work beyond the Creative Industries: An introduction. Creative Work Beyond the Creative Industries: Innovation, Employment and Education. 1-21.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2014. Embedded digital creative workers and Creative Services in banking. Creative Work Beyond the Creative Industries: Innovation, Employment and Education. 145-157.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2014. Embedded digital creatives. Creative Work Beyond the Creative Industries: Innovation, Employment and Education. 128-144.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2014. The Apps Industry. In: Cunningham, S. and Turnbull, S., eds. The Media and Communications in Australia. Allen & Unwin.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2014. Australian Content. In: Griffen-Foley, B., ed. A Companion to Australian Media. Australian Scholarly Publishing.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2013. "SporTV": The legacies and power of television. Digital Media Sport: Technology, Power and Culture in the Network Society. 52-65.
  • Goldsmith, B. and O’Regan, T., 2013. Beyond the Modular Film School: Australian Film and Television Schools and their Digital Transitions. Global Cinema. 149-169.
  • O'Regan, T., Goldsmith, B. and Ward, S., 2011. Sydney's media cluster: Continuity and change in film and television. Media Clusters: Spatial Agglomeration and Content Capabilities. 199-222.

Conferences

  • Biggins, D., Holley, D., Goldsmith, B. and Priego-Hernández, J., 2023. Why students engage in simulation and how it prepares them for work. In: ALDinHE Conference 2023 13-14 April 2023 Portsmouth. Journal of Learning Development in Higher Education, Special issue (29).
  • Biggins, D., Holley, D., Goldsmith, B. and Priego, J., 2023. Why students engage in simulation and how it prepares them for work. In: ALDinHE 2023: The Learning Development Conference 13-14 June 2023 Portsmouth.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2017. UnAustralian Characters. In: 17th Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand biannual conference 1-3 July 2015 Brisbane.
  • Goldsmith, B., Cunningham, S. and Dezuanni, M., 2016. Media Industry Meets Education Industry: A Study in Digital Disruption. In: International Communications Association conference 9-13 June 2015 Fukuoka, Japan.
  • Woodford, D., Prowd, K., Bruns, A., Goldsmith, B., Harrington, S. and Burgess, J., 2014. Introducing Telemetrics. In: IR15 - Boundaries and Intersections, Association of Internet Researchers Conference 21-24 October 2014 Daegu, South Korea.
  • Goldsmith, B., 2008. The Monster & the Birthday Boy: At the interface of Korean-Australian Film. In: 4th World Congress of Korean Studies 22-24 September 2008 Sydney. Proceedings of the 4th World Congress of Korean Studies. Korean Studies Interfacing with the World, Seoul: Academy of Korean Studies Academy of Korean Studies.
  • Goldsmith, B., 1998. Better half-dead than read?: The Mezzomorto cases and their implications for literary culture in the 1930s. AUSTRALIAN LITERATURE AND THE PUBLIC SPHERE, 80-89.

Internet Publications

Profile of Teaching PG

  • Communicating Ideas
  • Contexts of Higher Education Practice
  • Developing and Reflecting on Higher Education Practice

Grants

  • Australian Screen Content in Primary, Secondary and Tertiary Education: Uses and Potential (Australian Research Council, 01 Jan 2013). Completed
  • Investigating the Future through Australian Television (Australian Research Council, 01 Jan 2008). Completed
  • Redesigning Australian film and television production for Multichannel Environments 1995-2009 (Australian Research Council, 01 Jan 2007). Completed
  • Engaging with the International Film Industry: Case Studies in the New Ecology of Film Production (Australian Research Council, 01 Jan 2001). Completed
  • Cultural Diplomacy and Cultural Sovereignty in the Age of GATS (International Council for Canadian Studies, 01 Jan 2000). Completed

External Responsibilities

  • Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand (now Screen Studies Association of Australia and New Zealand), Conference convenor (2014-2015)
  • Australian Research Council, Assessor, Discovery Program (2013-)
  • Australian Teachers of Media, Editorial Board Member, Metro and Screen Education (2012-), https://www.metromagazine.com.au/index.html
  • Studies in Australasian Cinema, Editorial Board member (2010-)

Journal Reviewing/Refereeing

  • Journal of Australian Studies, Anonymous peer review, 18 Oct 2022

Public Engagement & Outreach Activities

  • Social Media and Australian Content Masterclass (02 Jul 2013)

Conference Presentations

  • ALDinHE 2023: The Learning Development Conference, Portsmouth, 13 Jun 2023 - 14 Jun 2023, Why students engage in simulation and how it prepares them for work, 13 Jun 2023, University of Portsmouth
  • International Communications Association Regional Conference, New Initiatives for Digital Content in Education, 01 Oct 2014, Queensland University of Technology Brisbane
  • Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Annual Conference, Australian screen content in education: Market size and dynamic, 09 Jul 2014, Swinburne University, Melbourne
  • Australian Screen Production, Education and Research Association conference, Australian Screen Content in Education, 18 Jun 2014, University of Newcastle, Australia
  • Third Australasian Symposium on Service Research and Innovation, Creative Services, Apps and Banks in Australia, 27 Nov 2013, Sydney, Australia
  • 8th Australian Media Traditions Conference, Children, Television, Policy, 25 Nov 2013, University of Queensland, Brisbane
  • ATOM Nation, Australian Screen Content and Education, 03 Jul 2013, QUT, Brisbane
  • Asia-Pacific Symposium on Creative Post Production & CILECT Asia-Pacific Association (CAPA) Conference, Beyond the Modular Film School: Australian Film and Television Schools and Digital Transitions, 19 Nov 2012, Griffith Film School, Brisbane
  • Hyperconnected: Outward-Looking Austral-Asian Digital Media Encounters in the Broadband Ag, Hyperconnected? Or Just Hype? Television Futures, 09 Jul 2012, Sydney, Australia
  • Educating the Filmmaker, Beyond the Modular Film School: Australian Film and Television Schools and their Transitions to Digital Environments, 01 May 2012, Hong Kong
  • UNSW National Strategic Conference, Korean Language Studies and Education in Australia, 01 Jul 2011, Sydney
  • Cinema, Modernity, Modernism. XVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand, Dino De Laurentiis and the Gold Coast, 30 Nov 2010, Sydney, Australia
  • 5th International Cultural Industries Forum, Australian Media, 01 Nov 2010, Beijing, China
  • Network of European Cinema and Media Scholars (NECS) 2010 Urban Mediations, SporTV – The Aesthetics and Practices of Sports-related Programming, 24 Jun 2010, Istanbul, Turkey
  • English-speaking film and television industries abroad: industrial and cultural relations, Global and Local Hollywood, 30 Nov 2009, Université Paris Ouest Nanterre La Défense, Paris