Research projects
All our staff are research active and regularly receive support from external funding bodies, ranging from the UK Research Councils and the Leverhulme Trust to the European Commission. The list below includes a small selection of current and recently completed projects with stand-alone project websites. For a more comprehensive overview of our research, please consult our Research Themes and the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture.
Emcee Culture Research
The Emcee Culture project is currently developing resources and materials that utilise emcee culture to improve inclusion, wellbeing and attainment for young people in schools.
Digital Past with Artificial Intelligence (LUSTRE)
LUSTRE is a project based at 黑料不打烊 that seeks to better understand how AI can help improve the preservation, access to and usability of government archives produced in digital form. The project is funded by a follow-on grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC).
Pandemic Communication in Times of Populism (PANCOPOP)
PANCOPOP was a transnational comparative study of health crisis communication in the context of populist politics, bringing significant advances in knowledge at the intersection of political communication and public health.
Tourism as Memory-Making
Tourism plays an important yet unacknowledged role in the construction of cultural memory. This ESRC project investigates this role by focusing on Russian tourism to Estonia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, in a time of geopolitical tensions.
The Illiberal Turn
A timely research project examining the role of media in the resurgence of illiberal nationalism, populist leaders, and authoritarian forms of government in Central and Eastern Europe.
Migrant Memory and the Post-colonial Imagination (MMPI)
Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, this major project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, responds to the urgent need to capture cultural memories of Partition in the British Asian community.
Screening Socialism
Screening Socialism was a three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which developed the first comparative, transnational study of television under communist rule.