Communications, Media & Culture
@ University of Stirling
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 …
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 …
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 …
To honour and celebrate the sporting achievements and physical strength of athletes, the Ancient Greeks used to place a wreath of olive branches on the heads of the winners. For the first time, during the Athens Olympics in 1896, the winning athletes received medals. For Read More …
Did you know that a Scottish athlete won the first marathon of the British Empire Games, or that one of Scotland’s most successful medallists was a diver? For its 84 years of existence, the Commonwealth Games has awarded 8582 gold, silver and bronze medals to Read More …
The Scottish Cultural Memory Project has been established by Peter Broughan, producer, in association with the University of Stirling, Creative Scotland and BBC Scotland with links to Bafta Scotland. The project aims to capture and preserve first-hand accounts and personal memories of recent cultural activity Read More …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …