Research
Welcome to our research pages. The research in the Department is multidisciplinary and covers a wide variety of topics from the social sciences. Our aim is to produce both fundamental and applied research of exceptional quality. We use a diversity of methods for data gathering and analysis, but our department has a particularly strong international reputation when it comes to the application of inductive and qualitative research methods.
For enquiries contact: Professor Liesbet Van Zoonen, research co-ordinator.
For staff research support, click here.
Latest News:
On June 9, an international colloquium on ‘ Identities in language, media and society’ takes place at the Department, 13-18 hrs.. Guest speakers are Liz Stokoe, Sabina Mihel and Daniel Chernilo from Loughborough Social Sciences, and Maria Eugenia Merino from Chile. They present theoretical and empirical work about social interaction, journalistic practice and ethnic identities. For more information and registration (free), contact Christean Tileaga.
Elizabeth Stokoe was awarded 2K from the University's Enterprise Office /Knowledge Transfer fund, to prime a new project on role-play training and simulated interaction, Read more.
Leverhulme Grant Awarded.
Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering have received a three year research grant of £106.810 from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate how photography and music, as processes of recording and retrieval which appeal to two distinct senses of perception, act as vehicles of memory in everyday contexts. For more information click this link.