Media & Communication, University of Leicester

Media & Communication, University of Leicester This is the page of the School of Media, Communication & Sociology at the University of Leicester, connecting previous, current and future students.

The Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester is based within the College of Social Sciences and has been at the forefront of media research since 1966, when it was first established as the Centre for Mass Communication Research. Initially, the teaching provision was limited to PhD supervision but in 1978, the UK's Social Science Research Council (now the ESRC) invited C

MCR to design and deliver the country's first taught postgraduate degree in media and communications and the MA in Mass Communications was launched, followed by its Distance Learning sibling in 1995. In 1992, the BSc in Communication, Media and Society was launched and new degrees introduced since are the MSc in Media and Communication Research (2000), MA Globalisation and Communication (2001), MA New Media and Society (2007), Pre-Masters Diploma in Media, Communications and English as a Foreign Language (2008), BA Media and Sociology (2008), MA Media and Public Relations (2010), MA Media, Communication and Advertising (2010), and MA Media, Culture and Society (2014). Most of our postgraduate provision is available either as campus-based learning or as distance learning programmes. In 2006, CMCR evolved into the Department of Media and Communication as we celebrated 40 years of Media at Leicester but CMCR itself still exists as one of the research groups within the department and continues to draw research students to the department.

09/02/2022

Two funded PhD projects have a media and communication focus:

- Changing climate, changing places: knowledge and solidarity in the framing of climate migration in news coverage and environmental and migration activism https://le.ac.uk/-/media/uol/docs/study/funded-ops/2022-projects/future-100/f100-cssah/mcs--forchtner.docx
- Media, NGOs and Human Rights advocacy in Sub-Sahara Africa https://le.ac.uk/-/media/uol/docs/study/funded-ops/2022-projects/future-100/f100-cssah/mcs-gies.docx

Interested? Apply! Please contact: [email protected] for more information.

Insessional English language courses for UG&PG international students. Registration will open on 15th April at 9AM and c...
12/04/2021

Insessional English language courses for UG&PG international students. Registration will open on 15th April at 9AM and close on 20th April at 9AM:

Postgraduates:
EL7000 Academic English for Postgraduates (Module 2)
EL7200 Academic English for Media Postgraduates (Module 2)

Undergraduates:
EL7040 Academic Grammar will run as a 4-week course [Tuesdays - 13:00PM to 14:00PM or Thursdays 08:00AM to 09:00AM GMT, starting w/c April 26th]
EL7070 Academic Vocabulary will run as a 3-week course [Tuesday - 10:00AM to 11:30AM GMT, starting w/c April 26th]

To register for these courses, use the following link: https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/eltu/isp/online-registration

Places are awarded on a first come, first served basis.

If you have any questions or would like to know more about the courses, please do not hesitate to contact [email protected]

Registration will be open from 9AM on 15th April 2021 to 9AM on 20 April 2021. For any queries please email [email protected]

Reproduction as a Means of Evaluating Policy Models: A Case Study of a COVID-19 Simulation. A novel methodology to exter...
24/02/2021

Reproduction as a Means of Evaluating Policy Models: A Case Study of a COVID-19 Simulation. A novel methodology to externally evaluate models that may be used for policy. Newly published by Dr Edmund Chattoe-Brown and colleagues

This article proposes (and demonstrates the effectiveness of) a new strategy for assessing the results of epidemic models which we designate reproduction. The strategy is to build an independent model that uses (as far as possible) only the published information about the model to be assessed. In th...

ELTU Insessional Support Programme:The ELTU supports students with English as a second/additional language. We have 8- a...
25/01/2021

ELTU Insessional Support Programme:
The ELTU supports students with English as a second/additional language. We have 8- and 4-week modules which you may wish to attend this term:
EL3000 Academic English for international undergraduates (Module 2)
EL7200 Academic English for Media and Communications Postgraduates
EL7700 (CSSAH) Academic English for Social Sciences, Arts & Humanities Postgraduate Research Students

To register for these courses, use the following link: https://www2.le.ac.uk/offices/eltu/isp/online-registration
Registration will be open until 4pm Monday 25th January.

This module is for students who are in other departments not mentioned above. It is aimed at students in the College of Social Sciences, Arts and Humanities.

ELTU English language support for international Undergraduate students:Do you sometimes find it difficult to communicate...
05/10/2020

ELTU English language support for international Undergraduate students:

Do you sometimes find it difficult to communicate in English? Would you like to be able to improve your reading, or academic writing? We have different ways to help you. Some examples are:

• how to manage your reading
• learn academic vocabulary
• organise and write different types of assignments

Watch this short video which tells you how you can sign up for free support from ELTU while you are on your course.

https://leicester.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=dd3854c6-bfa9-474c-afea-ac4500bef78c

10/02/2020

Screening of Pride in Bankfield House, 18th Feb - all welcome

Everyone is warmly invited to a School screening and discussion of the 2014 film Pride.

This will be shown at 6pm, Tuesday February 18th in the Bankfield House Lecture Theatre. This in an informal event for staff and students and everyone is very welcome to attend. Please come along and BYO popcorn and drinks!

Pride is a comedy-drama about the miners' strike in 1984 and the involvement of the Le****ns and G**s Support the Miners Campaign - so an especially apt film to watch during LGBT History Month. You can read a synopsis and watch a trailer of the film here.

We hope to hold regular film screenings for staff and students within the School, so please get in touch if you have any ideas for future events.

Hope to see you there!

24/01/2020

You are warmly invited to the MCS PGR Lunchtime Seminar on Wednesday 29 January, 12- 2pm in Bankfield House Lecture Theatre.

At this seminar, presentations will include:

• Ngozi Emmanuel: 'Portrayal of People Living with Disabilities, Human Rights and Nigerian Films: A Development Communication Study.'
• Peter Emmerson: ‘Retiring police officers: a study of influence, emotion and control.’

The Lunchtime Seminars are an opportunity for PGRs at all stages to share their work-in-progress research with the broader MCS research community. Each presenter will give a 15-20 min presentation, followed by 30 mins questions/discussion.

Our ESRC Festival of Social Science Event taking place this Saturday at Attenborough Arts; an interactive board game led...
06/11/2019

Our ESRC Festival of Social Science Event taking place this Saturday at Attenborough Arts; an interactive board game led by professional comedians, actors and other performers on the theme of able-ist privilege in creative industry careers. The event is free and open to all and the booking form is https://uk.patronbase.com/_AttenboroughArts/Productions/L14/Performances

Highlights of the UK-China advertising journey lead by Dr. Giovanna Puppin and her CreAD project (funded by AHRC).
25/10/2019

Highlights of the UK-China advertising journey lead by Dr. Giovanna Puppin and her CreAD project (funded by AHRC).

This promotional video is part of the project "CreAD: UK-China Partnership on Creative Advertising", sponsored by AHRC (Arts and Humanities Research Council)...

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Media & Communication at the University of Leicester is based within the College of Social Sciences. At 2016, a merge between the former Department of Media and Communication and the former Department of Sociology took place and we became a school of Media, Communication and Sociology.

The former Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester had been at the forefront of media research since 1966, when it was first established as the Centre for Mass Communication Research. Initially, the teaching provision was limited to PhD supervision but in 1978, the UK's Social Science Research Council (now the ESRC) invited CMCR to design and deliver the country's first taught postgraduate degree in media and communications and the MA in Mass Communications was launched, followed by its Distance Learning sibling in 1995. In 1992, the BSc in Communication, Media and Society was launched and new degrees introduced since are the MSc in Media and Communication Research (2000), MA Globalisation and Communication (2001), MA New Media and Society (2007), Pre-Masters Diploma in Media, Communications and English as a Foreign Language (2008), BA Media and Sociology (2008), MA Media and Public Relations (2010), MA Media, Communication and Advertising (2010), MA Media, Culture and Society (2014), MA Digital Media and Society (2018) and MA MA in Media, Gender and Social Justice (2018). Most of our postgraduate provision is available either as campus-based learning or as distance learning programmes. In 2006, CMCR evolved into the Department of Media and Communication as we celebrated 40 years of Media at Leicester but CMCR itself still exists as one of the research groups within the department and continues to draw research students to the department and to the school.

The former Department of Sociology also has over 50 years at Leicester. We were one of the very first universities to teach sociology in the UK and we have a long and well-respected tradition both in teaching and research. Therefore we now have over 100 years of combined expertise in both Sociology and Media & Communication.