Research university in London specialising in arts, design, humanities, and social sciences. A constituent college of the University of London, originally founded in 1891 as Goldsmiths' Technical and Recreative Institute by the Worshipful Company of Goldsmiths in New Cross, London. Aeron Davis, Professor of Political Communication in the Media department, gave evidence based on his research into the influence of media on "organisations and elite groups" and on contacts between journalists and politicians.
