Mr Beowulf Mayfield
Lecturer (Professional Practice) in Journalism

Summary

Beowulf "Wulfie" Mayfield worked as a local newspaper journalist in the Midlands and London for more than 20 years. He had a particular interest in writing about music and musicians. He also worked as a press officer for national charities, an independent record company and collaborated with musician Billy Jenkins to produce videos and The Billy Jenkins Listening Club podcast. He is a self-taught photographer, encouraged and mentored by press photographer colleagues, and has a particular interest in experimental techniques such as pinhole photography, coaxing images out of vintage analogue cameras and light-painting. In recent years he has developed a strong interest in documentary photography with a particular interest in the work of Daniel Meadows.

He shares the benefit of his long experience in journalism and enthusiasm for photography, design, video making and podcasting to teach the practical skills required for contemporary journalism. He designed Brunel's newspaper The Hillingdon Herald.

Inspired by a student with limited sight, he has led collaborative photography workshops bringing people with limited and full sight together to work on experimental and documentary projects.

Qualifications

BA (Hons) English, University of Ulster

Responsibility

Page layout and guiding student editors producing page layouts for The Hillingdon Herald.

Teaching practical photography, page layout for print and digital publication, video journalis and audio reporting at Undergraduate and Postgraduate level.

Teaching modules in photography and video journalism for the National Council for the Training of Journalists (NCTJ) diploma.