Grants

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. Using in-depth interviews, the project attends to the various ways in which the technologies are used by people of different genders, ages, ethnicities, and socio-economic backgrounds in articulating relationships between the past, present and future. The empirical data is used to develop a deeper understanding of the relationship between individual memory and its social and cultural contexts, bringing the personal and collective dimensions of remembering into view of one another.

REPORTING HEALTH INEQUALITIES (2009):

James Stanyer, David Deacon, John Downey, and Dominic Wring have been commissioned by the National Social Marketing Centre (a partnership between the Department of Health and the National Consumer Council) to analyse the reporting of health inequalities in the UK since 1998.

FITNA, THE VIDEO BATTLE (2009).

Liesbet van Zoonen and Sabine Mihelj have been awarded a small grant from the AHRC-ESRC Media  and Religion program to analyse the protest videos uploaded on YouTube as a reaction to the anti-Islam video Fitna.  [Read more].

THE NATIONAL DNA DATABASE IN THE NEWS (2009)

John Downey, Mike Stephens and Jan Flaherty have started a one-year ESRC funded project analysing media debates about the national dna database.