Anastasia Kavada and Pieter Verdegem have each been shortlisted for the 2022 MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards. The MeCCSA Awards recognise outstanding research in the fields of media, communication, and […]

This week Jean Seaton was a guest on a special audio series about Queen Elizabeth II produced by Radio France. The five part podcast series by Maylis Besserie explores […]

This week Doug Specht was formally awarded Chartered Teacher status at the London Guildhall. While Specht had gained this award in 2021 alongside his Advanced Teacher Status, the covid […]

  Ed Bracho-Polanco and Roza Tsagarousianou both joined a panels at the 2022 World Journalism Education Congress on 30th June. The 2022 Congress focused on the theme of Reimagining […]

On Thursday 23rd June, Prof. Jean Seaton joined the the British Library and a panel of distinguished guests to take a critical look at the BBC on its 100th […]

Ed Bracho-Polanco recently joined scholars from around the world at the Media and Governance in Latin America conference hosted by Jönköping University, Sweden. The conference “Media and Governance in […]

  On the 21st June 2022, Pieter Verdegem delivered a keynote speech at the ‘(im)possibility of an island? ethical AI in a geopolitical world‘ event hosted by the Foundation […]

  Tarik Sabry has been invited to join The Humanistic Inquiry and Theory (HIT) group on Arab Media and Culture. The Humanistic Inquiry and Theory (HIT) group on Arab […]

  Winston Mano has spoken to Vogue about conversational commerce in Africa. Conversation commerce happens at the intersection between messaging apps and shopping, with text based conversations being used […]

Tarik Sabry recently joined the faculty and students of Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in München (Germany) to discuss the future of Arab Cultural Studies and the field of Critical Arab Cultural Studies.  […]