As part of their Creative Business Project module, a team of students from the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises and the MA in Global Media and Communication conducted a project for video production company Ember TV in Birmingham to understand the return on investment and value of online video. It's an elusive concept as the team discovered but, as Ember TV report in their blog, the project was both valuable and enlightening.

We are delighted to announce that Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen will be joining the Centre as a new Associate Professor in Culture, Media and Communication in April. We are delighted to announce that Dr Joanne Garde-Hansen will be joining the Centre as a new Associate Professor in Culture, Media and Communication in April. From October 2013, Jo will be taking over from Dr Jonathan Vickery as director of the MA in Global Media and Communication (Jonathan is not leaving us but is developing some new research and teaching projects in the Centre). Jo is an experienced teacher, currently leading the MA in Media and Creative Enterprises at University of Gloucester. Her research draws on interests in media, memory, ageing and gender, with a particular focus on digital media and online creativity. Currently Joanne is working with colleagues in Brazil on the theory and practice of a social technology of media and memory. She is a co-researcher on the AHRC funded research network Women, Ageing and Media and co-investigator on the ESRC funded Sustainable Flood Memories project. Recent publications include Save As... Digital Memories (Palgrave Macmillan 2009), Media and Memory(EUP 2011), Geography and Memory and Emotion Online: Theorizing Affect on the Internet (Palgrave 2013).

Respected music industry magazine, Music Week, reports on project work undertaken by a team of current students on the MA in Creative and Media Enterprises for the Association of Independent Festivals as part of their Creative Business Project module. The team have just embarked on the project to analyse the economic impacts of music festivals and will be reporting their findings to AIF and its members in June.