We are delighted to announce two recent CMCI academic research funding successes: Professor Jeanette Steemers has been awarded Arts and Humanities Research Council follow-on funding for the project ‘Collaborative Development of Children’s Screen Content in… Read more

Welcome back: CMCI Senior Lecturer and cultural historian Dr Harvey G. Cohen is back at the department this autumn after two years away on a Leverhulme Trust research grant and sick leave. In the meantime,… Read more

CMCI Senior Lecturer Dr Paul Sweetman has been collaborating with researchers from Scandinavia on a paper on ‘Subcultures and the Experience and Branding of Place and Fashion’, which they co-presented at the Royal Geographical Society/Institute… Read more

CMCI’s Dr Ricarda Vidal, together with her collaborator Sam Treadaway, are  re-presenting works from their “bookwork” Revolve:R edition two (www.revolve-r.com), a two-year-long collaboration between artists, writers, filmmakers, a mathematician and a composer. They will be showing works… Read more

Professor Richard Howells’ latest book is now available “FTIP” –publishing jargon for the First Time In Paperback. An academic book usually comes out first only in hardback –with a hard price to match. But if… Read more

Colleagues from Chile and London are joining CMCI’s Dr Jo Entwistle in organizing a symposium on ‘Cultural Mediators in the Digital Age’. Together with Arturo Arrigada from Chile and Agnes Rocamora from University of the… Read more

CMCI’s Professor Richard Howells was a judge at the national finals of the 2017 Debating Matters schools debating competition. Six formers from all over the UK competed in the initial heats and then a series… Read more

There’s not many people can combine Peppa Pig and Parliament with such authority, but CMCI’s Professor Jeanette Steemers continues to fly the flag for the academic study of children’s media, and especially television. She joined… Read more

CMCI’s Dr Btihaj Ajana has just made a 13-minute documentary film called “Quantified Life” as part of her research project on digital health and “self-tracking.” It focuses on Thomas Blomseth Christiansen, who for the last… Read more

Dancing broke out at the launch of CMCI’s Towards Cultural Democracy: Promoting Cultural Capabilities for Everyone report. Headed by Dr Nick Wilson, our Reader in Creativity, Arts and Cultural Management, the report is the culmination of… Read more