Stephen A. J. Desmond
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WORK HISTORY
Avid Certified Instructor @Avid
Stephen qualified as an AVID Certified Instructor in 1995 in Tewksbury MA, USA. As an AVID-Certified Instructor (ACI) Stephen Desmond has retrained media industry professionals on industry-standard digital media editing interfaces. In summer 2001, he held several workshops at Moviola Digital, New York, retraining editors from large US Television Networks in non-linear video editing techniques and practices. He is a specialist in digital post-production technology and professional/industrial training. He was the primary designer of the largest digital editing facility in the City University of New York in 1997, and was retained by the New School in 1996 as a primary consultant in the design of the Knowledge Union-a state-of-the-art digital production/education center. Stephen\'s client list (AVID Training, Media Training, Media Consulting, Editing) includes: The Centre for Conflict Resolution Journalism, Penn Chemicals BV, Dublin Institute of Technology, AVID Technology UK, Jim Bambrick & Associates, Headband & Liniment, Fuji International Productions, Moviola Digital, Post Resources, WTNH-TV8 New Haven, WBNE New Haven, Ticino Films, Lancer Productions, Soho Audio, Bloomberg Television, Little Dog Productions, Joetown Inc, Backstreet Edit, Lionheart Films New York, RAI, Phoenix Communications, Oracom Inc, Alchemy Digital, Cammach Associates, VH1/MTV New York, The Jewish Museum New York, Asset Picture New York, NVI, National Recording Studios New York, Swiss Television.
EDUCATION
Dublin City University
Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Film
University of Michigan
MA, Communications Studies
Dublin City University
BA, Communications Studies
SKILLS
ABOUT STEPHEN A. J. DESMOND
Stephen has been a senior lecturer in film and television production at Solent University since 2009, teaching across the BA Film Production, BA Film, and MA Film Production degrees. He has also taught photography production in other degree programmes at Solent. Stephen teaches documentary film production, fiction film production, and experimental film production, screenwriting, history and theory of film, media studies, and critical approaches to mass media. Stephen\'s \'Intro to Film Editing\' classes at Solent received the highest student feedback (SUE survey) results of any unit on the BA Film Production course. Stephen was the recipient of Solent\'s Teaching Excellence Award in 2018. He has 38 practice-based research outputs (films, articles, radio broadcasts, installations, artefacts, conference presentations) which meet the criteria of the Research Excellence Framework of the UK. See recent publications, below, for full details and an extract from the PURE system of public research records. Stephen is a commissioned filmmaker, university lecturer, and film journalist. He has over 20 years\' lecturing experience in the field of film production and film studies and has been at the top of the senior lecturer scale in the UK for 18 years. He loves teaching diverse, international, and non-traditional, as well as traditional students. He believes passionately in expanding participation in higher education. He loves teaching in a team of committed colleagues. Stephen has extensive experience in the post-production industry as an editor and trainer of editors across the broadcast sector. He has an early-career specialism in media management and film commissioning for the independent sector. In higher education, Stephen has extensive experience in curriculum development and course management at undergraduate and postgraduate level. Some notable facts:Stephen won a scholarship to complete his MA at the University of Michigan (ranked in the world’s top 20 universities). He graduated with a 3.9-grade point average on a 4 point scale - one of the highest GPAs ever recorded in the School of Literature, Science and Arts at the University. Stephen is currently completing his PhD (a comparative praxis-study of Pedro Almodovar and Todd Haynes) at Dublin City University, considered to be one of the most innovative universities in the EU. Stephen developed and ran the highly successful MA in Video Production and Film Studies at UWL for over six years (see Awards, below, for the full text of Roger Mills\' letter nominating Stephen to the Higher Education Academy)
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