Communications, Media & Culture
@ University of Stirling
What is the point of a professor? The clue is in the title. Professors are experts in their chosen field, and with that title comes an obligation to share that expertise. Put simply, professors are meant to profess – to communicate their learning to the Read More …
I joined the TV production team at Stirling in September 2017. I am a TV producer, developer, writer and lecturer. After a postgraduate journalism course at the Scottish Centre for Journalism Studies (Strathclyde and Caledonian Universities), I exchanged improbable programme ideas for a work placement Read More …
The Division of Communications, Media and Culture, University of Stirling is organising a European Awareness Day, which will take place from Tuesday 13 – Wednesday 14 June 2017. There will be two showings of a free music recital ‘Europe: What a Passion!’ at the Read More …
Communications, Media & Culture production students are on a roll with their current win at the Scottish Student Journalism Award taking them to 3 years in a row for Best Broadcast. The quality and dedication shown by our students has been recognised and they winning Read More …
For my Journalism Project I travelled to the Greek Island of Lesvos and the border region of Idomeni. Both these regions are hotspots of the recent refugee migration to Europe, dubbed by many news outlets as the migrant crisis. It has to be said that Read More …
CMC research covered by Time, the New York Times and Social Media The recent publication of The State of News Photography: The Lives and Livelihoods of Photojournalists in the Digital Age has caused a great deal of debate in the industry worldwide. The study, which Read More …
There’s a fabulous story about George Brown, the former British Foreign Secretary in Harold Wilson’s first government. It’s almost certainly not true, but it should be. Brown was a drunk in an era when it was quite acceptable to be a senior member of Her Read More …
Fans of British comedy of the 1980s will be familiar with the involuntary and politically incorrect image that rushes into Reggie Perrin’s mind every time his mother-in-law is mentioned. His wife doesn’t see what he sees, but his face betrays the fact that something is Read More …
The 2014 Scottish independence referendum was one of the most important political events in the media last year and generated unprecedented engagement among the electorate. As part of the research project I have been working on in the last few months, looking at the framing Read More …
Former Scotsman political editor Fraser Nelson, now editor of The Spectator, has written an excellent analysis of the collapse of the Andy Coulson perjury trial and the prosecution of journalists, making very valid points about what it is easy to argue has become the judicial Read More …