Cultural and Media Policy Studies News and Events

Joanne Garde-Hansen will be running a British Council/FAPESP funded workshop at the University of Sao Paulo, Brazil 23rd-24th April. This unique collaboration between Joanne, Prof Gilson Schwartz (USP), Prof Anna Reading (KCL), Prof Michael Pickering (Loughborough), Paulo Nassar (Aberje, Brazil) and Prof Lucia Santaella (PUCSP) tackles the theme of Beyond the Digital - Collective Memory and Social Networks in Emerging Global Conflicts. The methodology of the workshop is a combination of keynotes, discussion activities, presentations, visits, group work and hands-on guidance. The aim is to engage 10 UK Early Career Researchers with 10 Brazilian Early Career Researchers in cross-culturally developing and designing one or more international research proposals with potential to be submitted for funding. The workshop will cover the following:

1) The exploration of innovative areas of media, culture, arts and technology research in the context of global innovation and change

2) The role of memory, heritage, culture, archives and history to an emerging global democracy

3) The debate around the role of economics in cultural exchange from an international perspective

4) To be engaged, generate ideas, communicate and be committed to the workshop

5) To be exposed to new cross-disciplinary, cross-sector and cross-cultural ideas and opportunities

6) To share knowledge for trans-cultural research with a view to tackling future research issues and pathways

Joanne has said: "The workshop presents not only a first for the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies, collaboration with Brazilian researchers, it also lays the foundations for extending the reach of the Centre's influence into Brazil, a key area in our exploration for recruiting the brightest global citizens to our well established postgraduate media, arts, creativity and cultural management programmes."

Students from all over the world will be coming to Warwick this summer for a programme of intensive study drawing on innovative teaching from across the university. One of the Centre's part-time tutors, Sara Lattey, will be running a module on 'Creative Commercial Communication' - a chance for international undergraduates to discover a snap shot of the kind of work our postgraduate students tackle on one of the Centre's MA programmes. The programme will run from 29th June to 9th August - for further information and to register, click on the title caption above.

The best of last year's MA dissertations are now available via the Centre's online publications page. Once again the work covers a wide range of subjects, from the 'sharing economy' of the couch surfing website Airbnb, through intellectual property rights in China, the 'seven basic plots' in advertising to a political economy analysis of Google. Congratulations to the authors, Katie Finley, Xiao Ma, Sandra Kaliszewski and Callum Goodwilliam. The winners were awarded a small prize at our annual degree congregation and we look forward to congratulating next year's winners in January 2015! Click here to read more.