Einar Thorsen Bournemouth University In this issue of Three-D, we are for the first time publishing an anonymous article. It is a sad consequence of the belligerent attacks on higher education, and in this instance media studies, that people fear speaking out publicly. The article makes grim reading and is a stark warning to us …Continue Reading

Sue Thornham University of Sussex This time last year I began my report by referring to the ‘considerable uncertainty’ which marked the new academic year. Over the past year uncertainty has been replaced by the all too clear evidence of the threats we face: as academics, as academics within media, communication and cultural studies in …Continue Reading

John Mundy Discipline Lead for Media & Communications, Higher Education Academy The Higher Education Academy (HEA) exists to promote excellence in teaching and learning across the higher education sector. A recent restructuring of the HEA will see responsibility for encouraging teaching and learning excellence move from the former Subject Centres to newly-appointed academic Discipline Leads. Although …Continue Reading

Julian Matthews University of Leicester 28 September 2011 University of Leicester On 28th September 2011, The University Leicester played host to ‘Thinking with Food: An Ideas Exchange’, the first annual research event of the Department of Media and Communication’s Cultural Production & Consumption Research Group. The event attracted participants from across the UK and EU, …Continue Reading

Kay Richardson University of Liverpool   Katy Parry University of Leeds 8 October 2011 The Leeds/Liverpool Political Culture symposium This one-day Symposium came about as the result of a collaboration between staff at the Universities of Leeds and Liverpool, and was funded from a Liverpool AHRC award, ‘Media Genre and Political Culture’ (https://www.liv.ac.uk/communication-and-media/Staff/politicalculture.htm). It was …Continue Reading

Anonymous Contributor These are difficult times for media studies. Whilst many colleagues are lucky enough to be in valued departments with sympathetic management, others are bearing the brunt of the economic cuts and changes in higher education. For those at risk the problems can be exacerbated by the nature of media studies itself and its …Continue Reading