Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association
The MeCCSA Executive Committee were deeply concerned to see the updated guidance issued by the Government to the OfS this week on Strategic Priorities Grant funding for 2025-26, which stated: “I am asking you to reprioritise high-cost subject funding away from media studies, journalism, publishing and information services courses. While I recognise that these courses …Continue Reading
Earlier this month the Government published its response to the HE reform consultation following the recommendations from the Augar review, prompting a particularly egregious press-release headline: “crackdown on rip-off university degrees”. Reforms are being proposed that the Government claims are designed to ensure – as the journalistic summary puts it – “Students and taxpayers will …Continue Reading
Concerned by the number of universities that have been reconsidering their range of provision, and in some cases cutting back or closing teaching and research in fields with which MeCCSA is involved, the Association’s Executive Committee has agreed the following brief outline of the importance of media, communication and cultural studies at higher education level. …Continue Reading
The MeCCSA Executive Committee has written to the Vice Chancellor and the Chair of the Board of Governors at Birkbeck, University of London, to express our serious concerns about the impact of their proposed restructure on staff in the Department of Film, Media and Cultural Studies. Read the letter from MeCCSA Chair Professor Einar Thorsen.
The MeCCSA Executive Committee has written a letter to express our concern about the action taken to suspend Professor Des Freedman and Dr Gholam Khiabany, the Head of Department and Deputy Head of Department respectively for Media, Communications and Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths University of London. We encourage everyone to read the context and if …Continue Reading
The MeCCSA and BAFTSS executive committees have written a joint letter to express our alarm and dismay of the possibility being considered by Queen Mary University of London to end recruitment to its very highly regarded Film Studies programme, and thereby to threaten the future of the Department and that of the staff and students …Continue Reading
The REF2021 panel overview reports have now been published, which provide a more detailed and reflective overview of the research performance in each area. MeCCSA has published a press release in response to these overview reports. In this we welcome the results as demonstrating the extremely high quality and social importance of research by our …Continue Reading
University research in media, communications and cultural studies has been shown to be of outstanding quality, “amongst the best in the world”, according to the recently published results of the Research Excellence Framework undertaken by the four UK higher education funding bodies. MeCCSA (the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association), the national subject association for …Continue Reading
As an association representing the interests of university students, teachers, and researchers in media, communication, cultural studies and associated fields, we are deeply concerned about recent announcements of closures and cuts in these areas. These follow substantial cuts in funding for arts, humanities, and social sciences subjects arising from the Government’s imposition in 2021 of …Continue Reading
The MeCCSA Executive Committee has submitted a formal response to the consultation organised through JISC on the future shape of the UK research assessment exercise. Read the full response here
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