Giannina Warren Goldsmiths, University of London The last few years have witnessed some dramatic shifts in the funding structures and government policy related to Higher Education (HE) in the UK. Since 2011/12 Universities have had the block teaching grant removed from arts, humanities and social science subjects and students have been charged up to £9k …Continue Reading
Tim O’Sullivan De Montfort University This is the first edition of Three-D this year, slightly later than usual, and the academic year has seemed to accelerate to its end of assessments, Exam Boards and Graduations, with planning for Clearing and the new academic cycle already well under way. It is that time of year when …Continue Reading
Rosemary White James Leggott Northumbria University The dynamic conference team at Northumbria are working hard on preparations for the 2015 MeCCSA conference in Newcastle Upon Tyne. Put 7th – 9th January in your diary now! The CFP has already gone out (see next page) – as you can see we have a stellar set of …Continue Reading
Einar Thorsen, Daniel Jackson, Shelley Thompson & Hugh Chignell MeCCSA 2014 Conference Comm. Bournemouth University The MeCCSA Annual Conference 2014 was hosted by Bournemouth University at its Talbot Campus, 8-10th January 2014. We would like to thank everyone who attended for making this such a great conference! Special thanks to those who were …Continue Reading
Pete Fraser Media Education Association The changes to the curriculum at GCSE and A level have largely gone under the radar for teachers in higher education. Indeed teachers in schools and colleges are often surprised to discover what’s been happening! For all of us, the future of Media and Film Studies is potentially …Continue Reading
Garry Whannel University of Bedfordshire Everyone who knew, worked with, wrote with, argued with or just met Stuart Hall will be mourning his passing in their own way. For many of us it will not be an easy or a quick process. His lasting memorial will, of course, be left in the traces of …Continue Reading
Julian Henriques Goldsmiths What’s in a name? A lot, if that name is Stuart Hall. As has been said, there are almost as many Stuart Halls as there are people who know his work or were fortunate enough to know the person. Each of us has made him our own, through his influence on our …Continue Reading
Graham Murdock Loughborough University Stuart Hall was without doubt Britain’s most distinguished post-war public intellectual and cultural analyst. Through his writings, his inspirational mentoring and teaching, his intellectual leadership, and his political vision, he shaped the study of culture and communications in the English speaking world and beyond in decisive ways. I first …Continue Reading
Peter Golding Honorary Secretary, MeCCSA Northumbria University Many colleagues have written of their personal memories of working with Stuart Hall, and of the academic importance of his work in their lives, or of his many personal kindnesses. We wanted to record our gratitude here also for the role Stuart played in the early development …Continue Reading
Lee Salter University of Sussex The ways in which the revelations about the NSA/ GCHQ surveillance scandal have been handled by the media have been interesting to say the least. It’s not often that such a clear test of hegemony theory is presented to us by a case study that involves the most sensitive …Continue Reading
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