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  • The Second’s Out

    Out now: the second edition of news on the CMCI Microsite. This new edition includes five new blog posts which explore the research and thinking from staff and research students working in the Department of Culture, Media… Read more

  • Rolling the DISCE

    A team of CMCI researchers have begun work on the €2.9 project, Developing Inclusive and Sustainable Creative Economies (DISCE), funded by the European Commission (Horizon 2020). Building on their previous work on creative labour, creative… Read more

  • Investigating Cosmic Wellness

    Dr Bridget Conor  On 19th November 2017, a new Instagram post appeared on the official goop Instagram feed, a 30 second video announcing: ‘The wait is over. GOOPGLOW is here 👏. A power shot of… Read more

  • Creative emerging economies: Fieldwork in Lagos 

    Dr Roberta Comunian and Lauren England In April 2019 we undertook an intensive week of fieldwork in Lagos (Nigeria) as part of an AHRC funded research network “Understanding and Supporting Creative Economies in Africa: Education,… Read more

  • CMCI Emerging Voices Conference 2019

    Lauren Cantillon On Thursday 6th and Friday 7th June, the CMCI department was delighted to welcome over 100 speakers and delegates from around the world to our annual postgraduate conference, CMCI Emerging Voices. Held in Bush… Read more

  • Immersive Promotional Media

    Dr Stephanie Janes I’m coming to the end of the first year of my British Academy Postdoctoral Research project on Immersive Promotional Media (IPM). This is a 3-year project which will use interviews, focus group… Read more

  • The  Feminist Research Reading Group  

    Katrin  Schindel The  Feminist Research Reading Group  has emerged out of the LISS-facilitated “Feminist Methods” seminar that took place at King’s College in the summer of 2018. The group is run by three PhD students, Sarah Louise… Read more

  • The Public Value of Creative Vocations

    CMCI’s Dr Roberta Comunian has been having her say on the recent debate about the future of creative arts education in the United Kingdom in response to the recent Augar Review. She was invited, along… Read more

  • The Body: Fashion and Physique

    Out this month… A special number of Fashion Theory, guest edited by CMCI’s Dr Joanne Entwistle, along with Emma McClendon of the Fashion Institute of Technology in New York. This special issue on “The Body:… Read more

  • Seventy Percent of Artists….

    There’s been quite a media stir over Dr Kate McMillan’s report on the representation of female artists in the UK. Headline findings include that nearly 70 percent of artists represented by London’s top galleries are… Read more