Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

The Centre is delighted to announce the appointment of Dr David Wright as an Assistant Professor, commencing in September 2009. David joins us from Warwick's Sociology Department - prior to that he spent five years of post-doctoral research with the ESRC's Centre for Research into Socio-Cultural Change (CRESC) at the Open University. He gained his PhD, based around a study of work in the book industry, from the University of Nottingham in 2004.

The MA course in Creative and Media Enterprises is designed to enable students to turn creative ideas into a successful business and develop the necessary skills and knowledge to work within the creative sector. With £15,000 of venture capital money in the bank, former student, Ed Chappel, is well on the way to doing both as he sets up the UK's first Musical Comedy Awards. 

Sholeh Johnston, a current student on the MA Creative and Media Enteprises, has set up PENCILFest, the UK’s first National Student Writers' Festival, which runs Saturday 10^th and Sunday 11^th May 2008.

Sholeh, who is a graduate of the Warwick Writing Programme, recognised a gap and decided to set up an event 'created by young writers for young writers.'