Data journalism and statistics at Sheffield

When I decided to undertake a degree in Broadcast Journalism, it was partly because I was weary of numbers –I took three years of mathematics, physics, and chemistry during my time at High School– and yet there I was, attending a University of Sheffield seminar Read More …

Researching the Media & Culture Student Conference

Christmas Conference Antici… pation. For a number of years now, Final Year students from the Division of Communications, Media and Culture have gathered just before the Winter Break to present their own research work in progress. Although it’s true that it is a requirement of Read More …

Dr Alenka Jelen – Public Relations

Dr Alenka Jelen, public relations I am very excited to join the University of Stirling, which is the cradle of public relations education in the UK. I took over the role of the Programme Director for MSc Strategic Communication and Public Relations (Joint Degree with Read More …

Maggie Laidlaw

Maggie Laidlaw, from Stirling to Glasgow School of Art It’s hard to believe it’s been a full year since I sat writing about my T.A. Dunn Award received from Stirling University’s FMJ dept in 2012…but here I sit, again writing about another very unexpected award. Read More …

In the Beginning….The Birth of Communications, Media and Culture

Professor John Izod takes a stroll down memory lane and gives us his take on the history of the Division of CMC My memories of Stirling go back to the 1978 founding of what was then Film Studies. The University was one of five funded Read More …

Welcome from Professor Matthew Hibberd

Professor Matthew Hibberd welcomes our new Students to CMC A very warm welcome to our new WordPress site called CMCstir, the Division’s new blogging tool where news and information about Communications, Media & Culture will be circulated and discussed. We hope that this space will Read More …

Damyan Kachulski, Undergraduate to Post Graduate

Damyan Kachulski gives us his view on life as a Journalism student and making the transition from Undergraduate to Post Graduate study within CMC My experience with the Division of Communications, Media and Culture has been a great one. I chose to do my undergraduate Read More …

Dr Margot Buchanan

Margot Buchanan’s Stirling Journey: From CMC Student to CMC Teaching Fellow I came to Stirling University as a mature student following many years working as a journalist, Chief Reporter and depute editor in local newspapers. Stirling was my first choice of university due to its Read More …

From The Sporting Past To Future Wellbeing: Intergenerational Sports Heritage in Glasgow’s Southside

Arts & Humanities Research Council Funds Professor Richard Haynes project on Sport & Heritage: From The Sporting Past To Future Wellbeing: Intergenerational Sports Heritage in Glasgow’s Southside is an exploratory action research project funded by the Arts and Humanties Research Council under its ‘Care for Read More …