Media and Creative Industries

We have a leading reputation, not just in the UK but worldwide too, ranking in the QS world top 60 for Communication and Media Studies, due in part to our academic and employer reputation, and citations per faculty.

Research within the Institute for Media and Creative Industries underpins our ability to deliver an innovative teaching experience at the forefront of our discipline. Our interdisciplinary team of researchers focus on four key research areas:

1. Infrastructure: Analysing technological innovation, regulation, meaning, and ownership, through the use of ethnographic, political-economic, environmental, activist and public-policy research.
2. Labour: Engaging the legal, economic, training, environmental, and organisational context of work, by drawing on institutional and ethnographic methods to engage both structural and experiential determinations.
3. Output: Understanding cultural production by addressing both content analysis and textual analysis, and combining statistical and hermeneutic methods to establish patterns of meaning.
4. Audiences: Combining quantitative and qualitative measures to establish the audience’s composition and conduct in the wake of cultural consumption. Analysis of ratings, uses and effects, as well as ethnographic and psychoanalytic traditions are key to this area of research.

The Institute for Media and Creative Industries attracts research students from a range of disciplines across the globe, creating a multinational, interdisciplinary research community.

Based in the former Broadcast Centre of the Olympic and Paralymic Games, our neighbours include BT Sport: owners of Europe’s largest sport TV studios, and international technology innovation company, Plexal. Along with providing a strong theoretical foundation into the media and related creative industries, our postgraduate programmes provide unrivalled connections to industry which have the potential to offer industry exposure and insight into the practical aspects of the media industry.