MRes/PgDip/PgCert Journalism
- Part-time study available
- International students can apply
- Based at MediaCityUK
A varied range of teaching activity takes place on the MRes (Journalism) at Salford, such as:
Lectures, lecturer led discussion in seminars, workshops, one-to-one tutorials and supervisory meetings, in-class collaborative exercises, student-led debates in seminars, online tuition through the use of the University’s Virtual Learning Environment.
Assessment
- Essays (short and extended)
- Project dissertation
- Research reports (short and extended)
Staff Profile
Seamus Simpson
Programme Leader for the MRes (Journalism)
Seamus Simpson is Professor of Media Policy at the School of Media, Music and Performance. Seamus teaches ‘Journalism and Media Convergence’ and ‘European and Global Media Policy’. His research in media policy has been published widely in leading scholarly journals and he is author of the books Globalisation, Convergence, and European Telecommunications Regulation (with Peter Humphreys, University of Manchester) and The New Electronic Marketplace: European Governance Strategies in a Globalising Economy (2007, Edward Elgar) (with George Christou, University of Warwick). Seamus is currently preparing two further volumes: The EU in Global Electronic Communications (Routledge 2014, forthcoming) and Governance, Regulation and the Media (Edward Elgar 2014, forthcoming).