The project is led by Professor Peter Lunt in collaboration with Professor Sonia Livingstone.

Peter Lunt, Professor of Media and Communications at Brunel University, has worked on the mediation of public participation and has a long-standing interest in questions of identity in relation to material culture and media consumption, the psychology of the television audience, the role of the media in public participation and debate (Talk on Television, with Sonia Livingstone; Routledge, 1994) and consumer psychology. His research has been supported by a number of grants from the Economic and Social Research Council and the European Commission.

Sonia Livingstone is Professor of Social Psychology and a member of the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics and Political Science. She has an established background in researching how audiences interpret and use the media; her most recent work concerns children, young people and the internet, as part of a broader interest in the domestic, familial and educational contexts of new media access and use (http://www.children-go-online.net/). Sonia is also Non-Industry Vice Chair of the Internet Watch Foundation.

Sarita Malik, Researcher in the School of Social Sciences at Brunel University, has a background in media/communications and sociology. Her research focuses on racial and cultural identities – both in relation to media representation and social change. Current interests include cultural policy and public service broadcasting, ‘race’ and reality television, and diversity in digital contexts.

 

Professor Peter Lunt, Principal Grant Holder
School of Social Sciences
Brunel University
Middlesex UB8 3PH
Tel: 01895 267330
peter.lunt@brunel.ac.uk
http://people.brunel.ac.uk/~hsstpkl

Prof Sonia Livingstone, Grant Holder
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics and Political Science
Houghton Street
WC2A 2AE
Tel: 020 7955 7710
Fax: 020 7955 7248
s.livingstone@lse.ac.uk
http://www.lse.ac.uk/collections/media@lse/whosWho/soniaLivingstone.htm

Dr Sarita Malik
School of Social Sciences
Brunel University
Uxbridge
Middlesex UB8 3PH
Tel: 01895 266874
sarita.malik@brunel.ac.uk
http://www.brunel.ac.uk/about/acad/sss/depts/sociology/commstaff/saritamalik

Social Contexts and Responses to Risk network (SCARR) - http://www.kent.ac.uk/scarr/
Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC) - http://www.esrc.ac.uk/ESRCInfoCentre/index.aspx

Duration of Project 2004-2008