The criminal justice system encompasses a wide range of interactions, from police officers engaging with the public on the street to police interviews with witnesses and suspects, emergency calls, discussions between suspects and solicitors, cross-examinations in court, interventions with children embroiled in the law, jury deliberations, and managing behaviour in prisons. These conversations are the […]
Dr Vaclav Stetka – CRCC’s Political Communication theme lead and Reader in Comparative Political Communication – presented the key findings of the 2024 Media Freedom Poll on 25 April in Budapest, during a high-profile event featuring representatives of regional news organizations as well as the Vice-President of the European Commission Vera Jourova. The data from […]
The CRCC scholar Burçe Çelik, along with Anaïs Carlton-Parada (Loughborough University London) and Nelson Costa Ribeiro (Universidade Catolica Portuguesa) are co-organising a two-day international workshop at the Loughborough University London campus on 25 and 26 April 2024. Bringing more than 25 leading and emerging scholars together, the workshop aims to foster discussions on how to […]
Jilly Kay – a CRCC member and Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at Loughborough University – appeared on BBC Radio 4’s Woman’s Hour to discuss her research on ‘femcels’ – women who identify as involuntary celibate. The discussion with presenter Emma Barnett can be heard at 48 minutes into the programme. She also recently […]
Talk by Professor Innocent Chiluwa- Visiting Professor at the CRCC 30th April, at 1-2pm in WAV040 Wavy Top at Loughborough University and on MS Teams https://shorturl.at/uvzS6 The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) is hosting the talk, co-sponsored by the Political Communication and Language and Social Interaction themes. The talk explores women’s rights […]
Jilly Kay – the co-lead of our Media, Memory and History theme and Senior Lecturer in Communication and Media at Loughborough University – was an invited speaker at the University of Toronto on March 6th, 2024. The symposium, hosted by the Institute of Communication, Culture, Information and Technology (ICCIT), was entitled ‘Log Out! The Technopolitics […]
Talk by Professor Erik Bucy – US-UK Fulbright Scholar in Communication and Media, Loughborough University Respondent, Dr Ronan Lee – Leverhulme Trust Early Career Fellow, Loughborough University London 26th March 2024, at 2-4pm, in U1.22 Brockington Building at Loughborough University and on MS Teams The Centre for Research in Communication and Culture (CRCC) and the […]
Professor Chiluwa will be visiting Loughborough University for the next six months and collaborating with members of the Language Social Interaction and Political Communication themes at the CRCC. Innocent Chiluwa is a Professor in Applied Linguistics (Discourse Studies), Media & Communication. He was the head of the Department of Languages (and later) Dean of the […]
The 2016 “Brexit” referendum heralded an age in which disinformation and divisive messaging spread on social media play a significant role in politics. The world is still grappling with how to deal with the impact of this on the health of democracy and society. While the majority of research in this area has focused on […]
The CRCC’s Political Communication strand recently hosted a two-day event at the Houses of Parliament and Loughborough London. The event formed part of a European Union funded European Elections Monitoring Center (EEMC) project devoted to creating the first ever continental wide archive of electoral advertising covering all 28 member states and currently holding nearly 15000 […]
