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Our research is organized around four challenge-led themes, highlighting how our research relates to key societal issues and concerns. 

We are committed to our research having a positive societal impact and value engagement and knowledge exchange with partners from industry, government, the public sector and civil society. 

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Research themes

Our research is organized around four challenge-led themes, highlighting how our research relates to key societal issues and concerns. The themes span traditional sub-fields of media, communication, and cultural studies while also making possible inter-disciplinary connections, enabling new research collaborations and emergent outcomes.

Each intersecting theme is explored through various theoretical perspectives, modalities, and methods, including creative practice and practice-led research. As well as advancing academic knowledge in these areas, we are committed to our research having a positive societal impact and value engagement and knowledge exchange with partners from industry, government, the public sector and civil society. 

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Working in partnership

The School of Media and Communication collaborates with internal and external partners to inform regional, national, and international policy through collaborations with industry, regulators and policymakers, such as the BBC, Ofcom, the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, and the European Commission. Our researchers work with communities and industry partners to interrogate the challenges they are facing through dialogue, participation, public engagement and creative practice. Find out more.

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Our research projects explore the past, present and future of media and communication using archives, new technologies and global partnerships.

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SOLUM: Jim Brogden photographs 2007-2025

The exhibition will reveal a researcher-photographer attuned to the quiet eloquence of place and the stories embedded in its contours

Tuesday 24 February 2026 - Monday 16 March 2026, 11:00 - 17:00 |

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Research Seminar: ‘Visibility, invisibilities and hypervisibility of female professionals in the Dutch screen industry’

Based on research in collaboration with professional organizations I discuss how female screen professionals navigate challenges in their work through visibility, invisibility and hypervisibility.

Wednesday 25 February 2026, 15:45 - 17:00 |

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Healthy Users: The Governance of Well-being on Social Media

In this book talk, Niall Docherty will present empirical and theoretical findings from Healthy Users (2025, UC Press) to show how living well online is not as simple as it seems

Wednesday 4 March 2026, 15:45 - 17:00 |

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The Cultural Industries in Long-Term Historical Context

Marking the publication of the new, fifth edition of David Hesmondhalgh’s book The Cultural Industries, a discussion between David Hesmondhalgh and Anamik Saha followed by Q&A

Thursday 12 March 2026, 18:15 - 20:00 |

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