Student Work

 Lincoln School of Media graduates achieved success for the fourth year running at last night's Midlands RTS Awards. From 37 University and College entries to this year's competition, the University of Lincoln received three nominations, two in the same category (Fiction) by the same team - the first time this has ever happened!

GREASEPAINT" by Philip Stevens, Stewart McGregor, Mathew Steward, Jake Tomlinson, Elif Baki was the WINNER in the hotly contested Fiction category. 

Staff and 13 School of Media graduates attended the ceremony in the Great Hall at University of Birmingham, along with 400 media industry professionals from across the Midlands.

View the 'Greasepaint' trailer here...

Nominations at the prestigious evening included:

• Animation - Smog. Chris Kirk & Ashley Pay (Tutor Ros Garland)
• Fiction - Northmen. Philip Stevens, Ben Barzak, Stewart McGregor, Mathew Steward, Jake Tomlinson, Elif Baki (Tutor Andy Mckay)
• Fiction - Greasepaint. Philip Stevens, Stewart McGregor, Mathew Steward, Jake Tomlinson, Elif Baki (Tutor Andy Mckay)

Our congratulations to all nominees and winners.

Star Struck Student Edits Ambridge Episodes

Listeners tuning in to ‘The Archers’ on BBC Radio 4 next week (20th March) will be hearing the handiwork of a go-ahead University of Lincoln student. 

Sabrina Cox edited next week’s episodes of the rural radio soap – quite an achievement for a student who is still learning the ropes. 

Sabrina (21) from Tamworth is in the third year of her Media Production degree and is specialising in radio production.  She is writing her dissertation on ‘The Archers’ and secured two weeks’ work experience with ‘The Archers’ at BBC Birmingham. 

BBC staffers allowed Sabrina to edit several episodes which will be broadcast every day next week from Monday (20th March). 

Her name has also been added to a list of freelance broadcast assistants who work on ‘The Archers’. 

“Getting editing work on such a well known show as ‘The Archers’ is a rarity and it says a lot about our students that the BBC trust them to do work such as this,” said Bryan Rudd, a lecturer on the university’s Media Production course. 

“It’s great that they gave me the opportunity,” said Sabrina, who hopes to further her career in radio feature or drama production after she leaves university. 

‘The Archers’ can be heard on BBC Radio 4 on 92-95 FM and 198 LW at 7.02pm all week, repeated at 2.02pm the next day (excluding Saturdays).

The omnibus edition of the whole week's episodes is broadcast every Sunday at 10am.

Lincoln is first university to get full time FM community licence

 Student radio station Siren FM has been broadcasting for four weeks every year from the Brayford Pool campus since 1998.

But soon it will be broadcasting 365 days a year under the terms of one of nine new community radio licences announced by Ofcom.

Siren FM will provide a service aimed at students, schoolchildren and other young people in Lincoln. 

“This award enables the university to be pivotal in providing students, young people and community groups across Lincoln and the surrounding area with a wonderful opportunity to have a 'real' voice through the exciting medium of radio,” said Bryan Rudd, a lecturer in Radio Production at the university and a patron of Siren FM. 

Staff and students at the university will spend the next year gearing up for the re-launch of the station, which is based in the Media, Humanities and Computing (MHAC) building at Brayford Pool. 

Community radio is a new third tier of UK radio which complements the mix of services already provided by the BBC and commercial radio sectors. 

The characteristics of community radio are distinct from commercial radio in that the services cover a small geographical area and are provided on a not-for-profit basis, focusing on the delivery of specific social benefits to enrich a particular geographical community or a community of interest. 

Ofcom is the independent regulator and competition authority for the UK communications industries, with responsibilities across television, radio, telecommunications and wireless communications services. 

For more details visit: 
http://www.sirenonline.co.uk