Research projects

CARM applies conversation analytic research to communication training to enable better conversations - from healthcare encounters to crisis negotiation. We’re also passionate about public science to bust common communication myths.

Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, this major project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, responds to the urgent need to capture cultural memories of Partition in the British Asian community.

Established in 2018 with an award from Loughborough University’s Adventure Research Programme, the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) applies cutting-edge concepts and methods from social science and information science to understand the role of social media in shaping our civic culture.

A timely research project examining the role of media in the resurgence of illiberal nationalism, populist leaders, and authoritarian forms of government in Central and Eastern Europe.

Tourism plays an important yet unacknowledged role in the construction of cultural memory. This ESRC project investigates this role by focusing on Russian tourism to Estonia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, in a time of geopolitical tensions.

Our researchers are developing guidance for effective crisis communication during a potential chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological emergency. Their work forms part of a multi-million pound TOXI-Triage project funded by the European Commission.

Screening Socialism was a three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which developed the first comparative, transnational study of television under communist rule.