Projects

CCM members are involved in many individual and collaborative research projects, externally funded by AHRC, ESRC, EU framework programmes, as well as supported by internal university research and innovation monies.

2012

Prof George McKay - AHRC Leadership Fellowship for Connected Communities Programme. £359,000.

Prof Peter Buse - European Society for Periodical Research (ESPRit) network development grant, awarded from Nijmegen University (£12,092). Prof Buse leads a cluster of researcher at Salford, the Periodicals and Print Culture Research Cluster, which was established in 2010 as a means of bringing together and developing increasingly widespread interest in the study of periodicals both as a necessary aspect of literary and historical studies and as a developing and exciting research field in its own right. The diversity of focus among the cluster's members has created a proper context for cross-disciplinary study, and brought together scholars working across a wide historical range, with the main focus of interest in Victorian and Modernist publications. Another CCM contributor to the cluster is Dr Carole O'Reilly.

Prof George McKay - AHRC Connected Communities programme, follow-on funding. 'Community Gardening, Creativity and Everyday Culture'. Partners are Universities of Manchester and Brighton, and working with three community gardening organisations in Manchester, London, Sussex. Total grant: £79,588.

Dr Andy Willis - AHRC Research Network, co-investigator. Chinese Film Forum UK. Partner with University of Manchester. Total grant: c £30,000.

2011

Prof Ben Light - AHRC/NESTA/Arts Council England Digital Research and Development Fund for Arts and Culture grants. Out of 495 applications, 8 were funded, including two featuring Salford Media Sociologists. 1. Imperial War Museum (IWM) with Knowledge Integration and University College, London (£84,500):

IWM and partners will develop a system that will enable the interpretation, discussion, collection and sharing of cultural experiences with, and between, audiences. This data-driven project will have in-gallery, online and mobile applications, which will augment and spread museum collections through social media and digital interaction. 2. London Symphony Orchestra with Aurora Orchestra and Kodime (£67,270): London Symphony Orchestra will create and test mobile marketing and ticketing, allowing students to purchase discounted concert tickets through mobile apps. The apps will also use location data to show events nearby and allow students to share comments via social media.

Prof George McKay - AHRC Connected Communities programme. To produce a scoping study: 'Community Music: History and Current Practice, its Constructions of "Community",  Digital Turns and Future Soundings'. Read the completed report. £26,773

2010

Dr William Hope - AHRC Research Network grant. A New Italian Political Cinema. £26,000

Prof George McKay - 2010-2012: researcher on HERA EU PF7 project, Rhythm Changes: Jazz Cultures and European Identities. Partnership of five EU universities:  Saldoford, Stavanger, Amsterdam, Graz, Copenhagen, plus other UK partners in Lancaster and BCU. Total award €1m; to McKay, c. £40,000

Prof George McKay - AHRC Research Leave Scheme award. 'Spasticus: Popular Music and Disability'. £37,594

2009

Prof Ben Light - ESRC. 2009-2011: 'Engaging Boys and Young Men in Sexual Health Maintenance via Digital Media'. ESRC-funded KTP with Brook Advisory. £120,000

Prof Ben Light - TSB. 2009-2011: 'Social Media Deployment for Customer Networking.' TSB-funded KTP with Cetus Solutions. £137,000

Prof George McKay - Stanley Smith (UK) Horticultural Trust. Small grant for picture permissions for Radical Gardening book. £1,000

Prof Ben Light - TSB. 2009-2011: 'Internet Based Promotion System Development.' TSB-funded KTP with The Foundry Communications. £120,000

2008

Prof Ben Light - ESRC/SPSRC. 2008-2010: 'Social Media Deployment for the Co-operative Movement'. ESRC/EPSRC-funded KTP with Co-operatives UK. £109,000

Prof Ben Light - AHRC. Scoping study on digital media. £11,750

Prof George McKay - University of Sydney International Visiting Fellowship: 'Popular Music, Media & Cultural Politics: disability, activism, (post-) subculture, and community'. £5,459

Dr Michael Goddard - British Academy Overseas Conference Grant - participation in the Visible Memories Conference, Syracuse, NY, October, £400

2007

Dr Peter Buse - AHRC Research Leave grant. 'Polaroid Cultures'. £26,844

Dr Andy Willis - British Academy conference organisation grant. 'Europe on Screen: issues on the future distribution and exhibition of European Cinema'. £1,315

Dr Phoebe Moore - British Academy Overseas Conference Grant. 'Bridging multiple divides'. £500

2006

Prof George McKay - EU Framework 6 international collaborative project (2006-8) 'Society and Lifestyles: Towards Enhancing Social Harmonisation through Knowledge of Subcultural Communities'. Society & Lifestyles is a major EU funded research project involving a dozen European universities, looking at subculture and new religious movements in Eastern Europe. Partners include institutions in all Baltic states, Romania, Russia, Poland Slovakia, Hungary, and well as the UK. Social groups looked at include neo-pagans and druids, extreme right skinheads, neo-bohemians, and widens to consider also gypsies. Questions of national identity, theories of alternative identity, the politics of such groupings, their treatment by the authorities - are all explored in the 3 years of the project. Salford's contribution is led by Professor George McKay. The project was launched in Vilnus, Lithuania, in March 2006, with a druidic fire ceremony on a snow-capped hill on the edge of this medieval city, and closed three years later with an international conference at Salford, and a book co-edited by McKay in 2009. £111,957

Prof Erik Knudsen - SDF collaborative project: 'Record from the outside'. Consultative role on cross-institution project. £7,967

Dr Peter Buse - British Academy small research grant to visit Polaroid archives, Cambridge Massachussetts, USA. £3,200

Dr William Hope - British Academy overseas conference grant. To attend 4th International conference on New Directions in the Humanities. £400

2005

Prof Erik Knudsen - AHRC Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts. 'Hearts of Gold: an exploration of traditional African story telling techniques: possible uses in documentary forms'. £5,000

2003

Dr Gareth Palmer - European Social Fund (regional). 'BME communities and the media'. The final report of this project was published in 2007. £77,884

2002

Prof George McKay - AHRB research leave grant 'Circular Breathing: the cultural politics of jazz in Britain'. This project involved transcriptions of interviews with improvising musicians undertaken as part of the research for the book, including images. These can be found as a PDF file - 'Jazz in Britain: interviews with modern and contemporary jazz musicians, composers and improvisers'. £12,135

2001

Prof George McKay - AHRB Small Grant in the Creative and Performing Arts. 'American Pleasures, Anti-American Protest'. £3,169