The Department of Media and Communication (DMC) is staffed by academics from a number of disciplines and backgrounds, including cultural studies, film and cinema, linguistics, political science, psychology, and sociology. The Department therefore actively embraces a multi-disciplinary orientation to research that includes critical and empirical analysis of media and communications, their structures, policy and legal frameworks, audiences and effects. Research at DMC is both theoretical and applied, designed to enhance theory and method and to feed into thinking about policy and commerce.

Current topics and themes

Current topics and themes (not an exhaustive list) in which staff have common and particular interests in relating to media are:

• Advertising and Consumerism
• Celebrity
• Crime, Justice and Security
• Disability
• Environment/Science (including climate change)
• Ethics/Regulation
• Health
• Memory
• Minority Groups
• News
• Politics
• Research Methods

Postgraduate Research

Further Research undertaken by some of our PhD students