Media and Creative Industries

This project investigates the role of communication and media in the making of populist backlash, democratic backsliding, and the crisis of the rule of law in the European Union.

Youth designing the future analyses how young people living in riverside communities in the Amazon region imagine and negotiate an image for the future, considering tensions between different generations and internal and external cultural and technological inputs.

A real-time study of the impact of Covid-19 on creative businesses in East London.

Overcoming Stigma through Paralympic Sport will build on lessons learned from the London 2012 Paralympic Games to explore how representation, education and communication in Paralympic sport can break down barriers to stigma to support access and adoption of assistive technology with a focus on Ghana, Malawi, and Zambia.

Women’s Memory and Media in Turkey researches, documents and archives women’s daily lives and struggles at work, home and in social relations in Turkey.

Cross Border Queers will address the missing history of the queer South Asian migration to the UK.

Connect2Aspire explores new approaches for mobilising cultural, creative and community resources to provide skill development and lifelong learning opportunities for UK’s young people.

A new collaboration bringing together creative businesses and researchers to explore and develop Creative Research and Innovation.

This research will explore the role of film co-productions in promoting soft power in the UK and China relations.

Migrant Memory and the Postcolonial Imagination:British Asian Memory, Identity and Community After Partition is research project investigating cultural memories of the Partition of British India and wider processes of decolonisation, that circulate within South Asian diasporic communities in the UK.

EduMAP explored the real and potential impact of adult education on learning for active participatory citizenship in Europe. Loughborough led the research on how the providers and users of educational initiatives are situated in the flows of information and communication.

Un/Making CSC investigates the implications of growing entrepreneurial discourses and capitalist values within communication for social change (CSC), with the overall aim to advance theory and practice on a justice-driven approach to communication for social 'changemaking'.