Media and Creative Industries
The media and related creative industries have become a keystone of contemporary social and cultural life. The Institute for Media and Creative Industries has been established to reflect and respond to this development, and become London's premier institution for postgraduate teaching and research into media, broadcasting, popular culture and the arts.
Why choose to study media and creative industries with us?
We have a leading reputation
Loughborough University was recently awarded first place in the 2018 Guardian University Guide for Media and Film subjects. The results are compiled by scoring each institution on a range of aspects, such as course and teaching satisfaction, staff to student ratio and graduate career prospects.
The quality of our teaching is reflected in every single one of our degrees
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Communication and Cultural Policy MA
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
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Global Communication and Development MA
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
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Media and Creative Industries MA
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
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Media and Creative Industries MRes
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
Join our inspiring research community
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Communication and Social Movements PhD
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
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Communication for Social Change PhD
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
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Communication, innovation and design: critical approaches for social change PhD
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
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Evaluating Cultural Value PhD
Campus: London
Department: Institute for Media and Creative Industries
Research is important to us
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:
- Infrastructure: Analysing technological innovation, regulation, meaning, and ownership, through the use of ethnographic, political-economic, environmental, activist and public-policy research.
- 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.
- Output: Understanding cultural production by addressing both content analysis and textual analysis, and combining statistical and hermeneutic methods to establish patterns of meaning.
- 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.
Strong industry links = better career prospects for our students
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.