Centre for Research into Communication, Culture and Media
This research centre coordinates work on literature, film, media and other forms of culture within, and especially across disciplinary boundaries.
PhD Studentships and Fee Waivers in the Faculty of Arts
These awards are open to candidates who are not already registered for a research degree at Winchester.
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A Brief History of the Centre
Formalised in October 2007, the Centre develops research that has been going on in the Faculty of Arts for more than a decade. Research strengths (some identified in REF panel feedback) include: ethnicity and representation; gender and sexuality; national identity; cultural icons; the links and relations between literary, material and visual culture. Interdisciplinarity has a rich and longstanding tradition at the University of Winchester, and informs current and planned projects spanning detective fictions and museum curatorship; city spaces, urban identities, and their representation; crime and culture; critical, institutional, and policy-related research on violence and its representation; and the imbrication of cultural forms, whether literary, filmic, televisual or other, with debates over national, trans-national, and other identities.
The centre hosts visiting lectures and performances, including an annual symposium exploring a topic of current critical interest from interdisciplinary perspectives. The Centre is also associated with several popular Masters’ programmes:
Researchers in the group were instrumental in the establishment of the Winchester University Press. The centre is also interested in developing innovative modes of dissemination and knowledge exchange beyond the boundaries of traditional academic frameworks. Hence we are loosely organised into several research clusters, whose work overlaps and is mutually reinforcing.
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Steering Committee
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Associate Members