MeCCSA nominations to HEFCE for RAE panel members

The following letter was sent to HEFCE in relation to the request for nominations for the next RAE exercise: ‘As Chair of the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association I am submitting a set of nominations for the 2008 RAE for UoA 66. They are for Peter Golding, University of Loughborough, as Chair Martin Barker, …Continue Reading

MeCCSA 4th Annual Conference

MeCCSA 4th Annual Conference University of Reading, 18 – 20 December 2002 Click here for map The annual conference provides members (and non-members) with the opportunity to meet each other and discuss common professional and academic concerns – as well as to wind down after a hard term! MeCCSA’s AGM will also take place during …Continue Reading

Presentations

Teleology on Television: Wildlife Programmes Aldridge, Meryl Panel Discussion – the Current State of Audience Research Barker, Martin The Heroine – Feminist Encounters in the 21st Century Bennion-Nixon, Lee-Jane The ‘Virtual Real’: Cyberspace Challenges Cultural Studies Beynon, John Reality television does not exist Bourdon, Jerome Sex, Drugs and Role Models: Masculinity, the Sporting Celebrity and …Continue Reading

Programme

Wednesday 18 December 1.00 – 2.00 Arrival and Registration 2.00 – 3.15 Plenary Session: The Media and 11 September Eve-Anne Prentice and Stuart Allan 3.15 – 3.30 Tea 3.30 – 5.15 Panels A: Audiences Kate Egan, Kaoruko Kondo Religion in the Media Mike King, William Taylor, Mo Dodson Politics and the Media 1 Karin Wahl-Jorgensen, …Continue Reading

The ‘New Sexism’

Contact: jane.arthurs@uwe.ac.uk A day of presentations and discussion addressing the resurgence of ‘sexist’ forms of discourse and imagery in the popular media. If the 1990s can be characterised as a period of ironic sexism have we now moved to a period of post-ironic ‘retrosexism’ in the new millennium? If this is the case what new …Continue Reading

Competition to host MeCCSA Postgraduate Conference 2009

This is an exciting opportunity for postgraduate students to gain valuable project management experience, and help further their academic career. If any of your postgraduate students are interested in organizing the annual conference in 2009, please get in touch with the Chair of the Postgraduate Network, Kaitlynn Mendes (mendesk@cardiff.ac.uk), to register your interest and request …Continue Reading

Women’s Mentoring Day

Round-table panels: Succeeding in the Academy Getting Grants Speakers include: Professor Terry Threadgold, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Professor Jenny Kitzinger, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Dr Cynthia Carter, Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies Dr Katharine Sarikakis, Coventry School of Art and Design, Coventry University Registration: …Continue Reading

Recent activities of the Network

Network members are being rather modest in sending their profiles to Karen Ross, Coventry University who has provided a template for women to give their web biographies. In June Karen made the template available again to members of our mailing list and it is hoped that women will find time over the summer to fill …Continue Reading

Preliminary response to HEFCE Consultation Paper: RAE 02/2004 – panel configuration and recruitment

May 2004 Links: HEFCE (Higher Education Funding Council for England) RAE 02/2004 This Association represents teachers, researchers, and students in its fields within UK Higher Education. Its predecessor body was instrumental in arguing for the formation of a panel within the Research Assessment Exercise that could properly recognise and assess research in our fields. This …Continue Reading

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