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On June 9, an international colloquium on ‘ Identities in language, media and society’ takes place at the Department, 13-18 hrs.. Guest speakers are Liz Stokoe, Sabina Mihel and Daniel Chernilo from Loughborough Social Sciences, and Maria Eugenia Merino from Chile. They present theoretical and empirical work about social interaction, journalistic practice and ethnic identities. For more information and registration (free), contact Christean Tileaga.

Elizabeth Stokoe was awarded 2K from the University's Enterprise Office /Knowledge Transfer fund, to prime a new project on role-play training and simulated interaction, Read more.

Leverhulme Grant Awarded.

Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering have received a three year research grant of £106.810 from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate how photography and music, as processes of recording and retrieval which appeal to two distinct senses of perception, act as vehicles of memory in everyday contexts. For more information click this link.

MEDIA OF REMEMBERING (2010)
 
Emily Keightley and Michael Pickering have received a three year research grant of £106.810 from the Leverhulme Trust to investigate how photography and music, as processes of recording and retrieval which appeal to two distinct senses of perception, act as vehicles of memory in everyday contexts. For more information click this link.

Centre for Child and Family Research wins tender (with the Institute for Education and Kent University) for the highly prestigious DCSF childhood wellbeing centre.