Research Fields

Prospective students can approach us with proposals for research on any media related topics, but topics we are currently best equipped to supervise are:

  • Sport, the Media and the Olympics
  • Olympics and the Public Sphere
  • Political Communication
  • ‘Citizen Journalism’ in UK Politics?: Marking the changes in the Public Sphere
  • Researching the Audience for UK community radio
  • Between Screen and Screen: Post-Jungian Insights into Gamers and Gaming
  • Situating Digital Poetry: Innovative Poetics and Digital Practices
  • Cross-media storytelling: convergence in the new media
  • Eighteenth, nineteenth, twentieth and twenty-first century literature, authors and publishing

We welcome proposals in the following fields:

  • New Media
  • Media History
  • Creative writing
  • Media industry
  • Journalism
  • Radio
  • Music technology
  • Creative practices in art and design (digital technologies)
  • Performance (practice-led)
  • e-dance
  • Book history
  • Authorship
  • Literary studies

Proposals for research degrees may also be considered outside of these areas, depending on the availability of supervision, expertise and facilities.

For further information or a preliminary discussion, please contact Dr Nicola Darwood marking your email 'RIMAP enquiry' in the subject line.

E: nicola.darwood@beds.ac.uk

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