University of Bedfordshire, Luton Thursday 12th January 2012 Present: Approx. 47 members Apologies: Helen Baehr, Sarita Malik 1.0 Minutes of the meeting 13th January 2011 1.1 The minutes were agreed to be a correct account of the previous meeting. However, the spelling of “Elinar” on page two should be “Einar”. 3.0 Matters Arising 3.1 …Continue Reading
University of Ulster, 10th January 2013 AGENDA 1. Apologies 2. Minutes of 2012 AGM 3. Matters arising 4. Chair’s Report 5. Treasurer’s Report (MeCCSA accounts 2011-12.pdf) 6. Reports from Sub-Committees 6.1 Association Activities Sub-Committee 6.2 Administration and Communication Sub-Committee 6.3 Academic Development Sub-Committee 7. Report on Networks 7.1. Environment, Climate Change and Sustainability Network (Three-D Issue …Continue Reading
Dear MeCCSA member, I am writing to give formal notice of the Association AGM to be held during the forthcoming conference at the University of Ulster on January 10th 2013. All members are warmly invited to attend. An agenda and associated papers will be distributed at the conference. As the deadline for nominations to the …Continue Reading
The Academy of Social Sciences are looking to build up a series of compelling case studies to demonstrate the value and impact of social science research, to assist in making their case to Government. Please see below invitation to participate from Fiona McAllister, Policy Officer, Academy of Social Sciences. Responses are required by Thursday 24th January, 2013. The case …Continue Reading
Studying Media, Film and Communication at University: choosing the right course for you (PDF, 268k) new! Here is the new, updated version of the MeCCSA leaflet for schools and colleges aimed at prospective university students of media, film, and communication studies. All institutional members will be receiving copies of the leaflet, and you are of course free to download …Continue Reading
Three-D, issue 19 (PDF, 3.1Mb) In this issue: 1 Publishing crossroads (Einar Thorsen) MeCCSA Annual Conferences 2 MeCCSA 2013: Spaces and Places of Culture (Máire Messenger Davies) 5 MeCCSA 2014: Bournemouth University (Hugh Chignell) Academic Publishing 6 Publishing problems (Larry Gross) 8 Free labour and academic publishing (Veronica Barassi) 9 Self-publishing for academics (Paul Bradshaw) …Continue Reading
Felicity Plester Palgrave Macmillan In 2011 Palgrave Macmillan commissioned a series of surveys of over 1,200 Humanities and Social Sciences researchers from around the world to better understand the challenges they face when publishing scholarly research. Their responses illustrated the perceived restrictions in scholarly publishing – particularly regarding length, speed and timeliness – all rationales …Continue Reading
Caroline Wintersgill Bloomsbury Academic With debates raging on whether Gold Open Access or a mandated form of Green Open Access is a preferable model for future research dissemination , and against a related backdrop of hostility to academic publishers (George Monbiot calls us ‘knowledge monopoly racketeers’) developments in access to scholarly books, as opposed to …Continue Reading
Damian Tambini London School of Economics Media policy has always been a political minefield, and recent events have done little to defuse the terrain. The Leveson Inquiry has seen that elected politicians face deep conflicts of interest with regard to the media. Many say they should be removed from exercising ‘quasi-judicial functions’ in implementing the …Continue Reading
Marcela Ganea & Constantin Coderie Artifex University of Bucharest This article is meant to emphasize that lack of funds, lack of correlation and too much centralized decision have weakened the Romanian education during the last 22 years. Despite continuous claiming that reforms are taking place, the overall quality of education decreased in Romania. On the …Continue Reading
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