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Our teaching and research change from year to year, new staff are recruited and others move on. We make every effort to ensure that the programmes and courses are offered as described in our literature but please bear in mind that things may change between when you submit your application and when you start your study with us.

On 17 March, Associate Professor Dr Bart Cammaerts gave a paper on The Transgressive Nature of the Mainstream Media Representation of Jeremy Corbyn at the Media and Transgression Symposium held at Lund University in Sweden. In this paper, co-written with Media and Communications PhD Researchers Brooks DeCillia, César Jiménez-Martínez and João Carlos Magalhães, Dr Cammaerts presented the preliminary results of a small-scale research project on mainstream media representations of Jeremy Corbyn funded by the Department of Media and Communications. You can read the report in full and watch a 3 minute video that highlights the reports findings here.

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European Migration Crisis and the Media: Preliminary findings

During the 2016 Polis conference researchers from the Media and Communications department’s European Migration Crisis and the Media project presented their preliminary findings for the first time. A panel consisting of Dr Myria Georgiou and Dr Rafal Zaborowski along with student researchers Antonis Dimitriadis, Lisa Elkhoury, Afroditi Koulaxi, Sadichchha Pokharel and Pauline Vidal discussed their research on European media coverage of the migration crisis. See here for powerpoint presentation and audio.