Media, Culture and Communication
Research in Media, Cultural and Communication Studies at Middlesex is multifaceted, interdisciplinary and engaged with a wide variety of subjects and intellectual activities.
Middlesex University is home to the Centre for Research into Creation in the Performing Arts (ResCen).
Our research-active staff regularly publish their work in the form of books, articles and contributions to contemporary media debates through both mainstream and alternative media outlets (from The Guardian to Open Democracy). Staff are on the editorial boards of several prominent international journals (including Soundings, Cultural Studies and Body and Society) and have been active in translating theoretical material by key contemporary thinkers such as Felix Guattari and Isabelle Stengers. We have also received grants from the AHRC and Home Office, most recently to conduct a project on community media.
We regularly hold research seminars connected to staff and student research and actively encourage applications for research degrees from interested students.
The areas we cover are broad and you are advised to contact Jo Littler for an informal discussion about how your interests might fit into those of the department. Some of our key areas of research are:
- cultural politics and theory;
- mediating communities;
- promotional and consumer culture;
- celebrity;
- subjectivities and gender;
- media and technology.
