Home Banner

Communication, Cultural and Media Studies Research Centre

Centre News

  • Comedy expert Dr CP Lee, an CCM member was interviewed on BBC Radio 2's History of British Comedy programme, hosted by Comedian David Mitchell. Dr Lee talked about "all sorts of aspects of comedy, from the development of stand up, a new performance form in the early 1900s, to the rise of double acts which were illegal on the Music Hall stage until the 1930s." The University of Salford also contributed to the programme by supplying the Mike Craig Comedy Archive, a digital resource based in the University's Archives Unit. The radio programme will be aired from 11 March 2013 for three consecutive Monday nights. Read the full story»
  • Congratulations to Dr Carole O'Reilly for securing a book contract for her monograph The Greening of the City: Urban Parks and Public Culture 1840-1940. The book will be published in 2015 in the Routledge series Studies in Cultural History.
  • Good luck to two of our PhD students who have vivas coming up this month: Dan Ward, and Ira Yusof. 
  • 17 July 2012, Prof George McKay has been appointed to an AHRC Leadership Fellowship for the Connected Communities Programme, starting in September 2012. Read the full story»
  • Music Documentary CoverCongratulations to CCM members Dr Ben Halligan and Kirsty Fairclough on the publication of their co-edited volume, The Music Documentary: Acid Rock to Electropop (Routledge). In this collection of fifteen essays, the reader will find comprehensive discussions of the history of music documentaries, insights in their production and promotion, close studies of documentaries relating to favourite bands or performers, and approaches to questions of music documentary and form, from the celluloid to the digital age.

Forthcoming Events

  • Rethinking Jazz Cultures posterRethinking Jazz Cultures (McKay, PhD student Tom Sykes, members of organising committee). MediaCityUK, 11-14 April 2013. With over 100 papers received, this promises to be the biggest jazz academic conference ever in the UK (probably). Bringing together Music, Cultural Studies, History, and Media colleagues for the second and final international conference of the HERA EUFP7 research project Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities. It follows the wonderful conference at Amsterdam Conservatory in September 2011.
  • Research Society for Victorian Periodicals symposium, July 2013. Co-organiser: Prof Peter Buse
  • DE2013: Open Digital, 4-6 November 2013 - this year is the fourth year the  RCUK's Digital Economy programme has organised an ‘All Hands’ meeting to bring together the research community from across sectors. It will be hosted by University of Salford at MediaCityUK.