I am Emil Collins, Filmmaker and accidental educator. I teach broadcast journalism part time on the Fashion Journalism and Content Creation course at the London College of Fashion.
I still run my professional practice and I have no more formal HE qualifications except the one I am currently embarking on. With a background in IT I stumbled into filmmaking late in life and then stumbled into teaching after that.
It’s quite strange as I literally judge on what I see as opposed to the qualifications the people have who make such content. I feel it makes me the equivalent of a modern day woodwork teacher. I am very vocationally focused without being pedagogically driven. I teach the rules, guides and boundaries so my students know which ones to break to get the results they need. Being a business owner and a creative makes for a very broad view of my teaching style.
Through the PgCert I hope to synthesise my academic practice, creative practice and pedagogy to enable me to facilitate meaningful learning and teaching experiences, as well as being informed by the social justice and equality the university promotes for all my students.
