About Us
Welcome to the Communication, Cultural and Media Studies (CCMS) Research Unit, based at the Creative School of Creative and Cultural Industries .
The CCMS Research Unit provides a focus for researchers working in media, culture and journalism whose research draws on a diverse range of theoretical and methodological perspectives. As a team, we are collaborative, inter-disciplinary and engaged in sustained critical and creative analysis of media and cultural texts and processes on a diverse range of projects.
The group mounts conferences and seminars that reflect our interests in journalism, television and cultural history. The CCMS research group provides a space in which to showcase the work of research students and offers support to postgraduates through, for example, covering some conference attendance costs, doctoral completition awards and MRes studentships.
Research Interests
CCMS is a ‘broad church’ and genuinely interdisciplinary, as is evident from the research interests of its members. These interests include:
- Globalisation
- Masculinities
- Television studies
- Media audiences
- Screen adaptations
- Strategy within creative industries
- Race and representation
- Identity
- The Black Diaspora
- Museums and the heritage industry
- Photography and the city
- Portraiture
- Immigrants and minorities in Wales
- International media
- Media policy
- Media in Wales
- Arts and cultural policy
- Media and culture in small nations
