On the 14th of June 2023, the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University will host an international symposium on “Bridging divides with communication research”. The event will be held from 2pm to 6pm at the Hazlerigg Council Chamber and will be open to all members of staff and students at Loughborough […]
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In our latest post, Dr Emma Richardson discusses how research using conversation analysis (CA) helps us understand ‘evidential difficulties’ in crime reporting of gender-based violence. According to official data, the impact of violence against women and girls in the UK and beyond is pervasive. For example, in the year ending March 2020, 78% of investigations […]
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RealTalk, the groundbreaking educational tool for health care practitioners has been licensed to Treetops Hospice ensuring long-term high-quality communication care to patients and their families. The CRCC is proud to spotlight impactful work conducted by our research community members here at Loughborough University and beyond. We are especially excited about recent developments in the work […]
Read moreThe Centre for Research in Communication and Culture is pleased to co-host an international workshop on pandemic communication and populism, to be held at Loughborough University on 12-13 June 2023. You can submit your abstract until 15 January 2023. As the COVID-19 pandemic disappears from the headlines and attention turns to new political crises, it […]
Read moreAuthenticity has become a buzzword for our times. A new collection, edited by scholars in the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture at Loughborough University, provides the first interdisciplinary examination of authenticity. The book titled ‘Cultures of Authenticity’ analyses the concept of authenticity in relation to travel and tourism, branding and marketing, popular culture, […]
Read moreFrom 23 July until 2022 until 31 January 2023, the National Science and Media Museum in Bradford is hosting “Switched on: 100 years of broadcast innovation“. This is the largest exhibition in a series of events organized throughout 2022 by Science Museum Group across Manchester, London and Bradford in collaboration with the BBC to celebrate […]
Read moreThe Centre for Research in Communication and Culture is delighted to host the eighth conference of The International Journal of Press/Politics, an interdisciplinary journal for the analysis and discussion of the role of the press and politics in a globalized world. After two years in which the conference was successfully run online, this year the […]
Read moreOn the 21st of September 2022, the Centre for Research in Communication and Culture will host Professor Maria Repnikova (Georgia State University) for a talk on “Advancing Research on Communication under Authoritarianism”. Professor Repnikova’s talk will be open to the public and will also serve as the keynote speech for the eighth annual conference of […]
Read moreWe have now completed our 2021-22 Seminar Series, which was mainly held online. We are delighted to share the video recordings of most of our events. “Urban Cultural Institutions in Post-Pandemic Perspective” by Dr Fabian Holt (Roskilde University) “Networked power and arbitrariness in the U.S. asylum system” by Professor Caroline Nagel (University of South Carolina) […]
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This week, the 72nd annual meeting of the International Communication Association (ICA) will be held in Paris in hybrid format from 26-30 May. ICA is the largest global organization that advances the scholarly study of communication, with more than 5,000 members in over 80 countries. As is the case every year, colleagues from CRCC will […]
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