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"We are very proud of the performance improvement in this research unit, transforming the quality profile of their research achieving a 4*research output profile (31.3%) that ranks 4th within the institution.
This research underpins research impact, of which 100% was regarded as internationally excellent making contributions to society and culture in Northern Ireland."
How we did
Overall
An outstanding 77% of our research has been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent.
Research Impact
100% of our impact case studies have been judged as having outstanding or very considerable impacts in terms of their reach and significance.
Environment
75% of our research environment has been judged as being conducive to producing research of world-leading or internationally excellent quality and enabling outstanding impact, in terms of its vitality and sustainability
Research Outputs
68.8% of our research outputs have been judged as world-leading or internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance, and rigour
Research Director
Unit of Assessment Coordinator
Our Team
| Name | Role |
|---|---|
| Baker, S Dr | Lecturer in Film & Television Studies |
| Baylis, G Dr | Lecturer - Media Studies |
| Edge, S Professor | Professor of Photography and Cultural Studies |
| Ekins, R Professor | Emeritus Professor of Sociology and Cultural Studies |
| Giffney, N Dr | Lecturer |
| Hickey, A Mr | Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media |
| Hook, A Mr | Senior Lecturer in Interactive Media |
| Jackson, H Dr | Senior Lecturer |
| Long, M Dr | Lecturer |
| Mairs Dyer, J Dr | Lecturer in Media Production |
| McGrath, C Dr | Lecturer in Public Relations |
| Murphy, C Dr | Subject Leader in Media, Film and Journalism |
| Porter, R Dr | Research Director – Communication, Cultural and Media Studies |
| Ramsey, P Dr | Lecturer |
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"I am so proud and delighted for my colleagues in Communication, Media and Cultural Studies concerning our performance in REF. Nearly tripling our four star performance in outputs is a truly outstanding and unprecedented improvement in results for Ulster in sub-panel 34. Simply brilliant!!!"
Impact Case Studies and Environment Statement
View the outputs
- A Few Too Many Photographs? Indexing Digital Histories
- A New Pedagogy to Enhance the Safety and Resilience of Journalists in Dangerous Environments Globally
- A Transmedia Topology of 'Making a Murderer
- BBC Radio and public value: The governance of public service radio in the United Kingdom
- Becoming a follower of the Merseysippi Jazz Band: An approach from ethnography, autoethnography and social world analysis—a study in resocialization
- Broadcasting to reflect ‘life and culture as we know it’: media policy, devolution and the case of Northern Ireland
- Clinical Encounters in Sexuality : Psychoanalytic Practice and Queer Theory
- Commercial Public Service Broadcasting in the United Kingdom: Public Service Television, Regulation, and the Market
- Con Colbert's Portrait: The Lives of a Photograph
- Invisible Belfast : Flat ontologies and remediation of the post-conflict city
- ‘It could redefine public service broadcasting in the digital age’: Assessing the rationale for moving BBC Three online
- Screen production on the ‘biggest set in the world’: Northern Ireland Screen and the case of Game of Thrones
- Seeing and knowing Titanic Belfast using augmented reality: an auto-ethnographic view
- Self-injury, stigma, and identity: The Northern Ireland context
- Social constructions of ‘authenticity’ and the sounds of the Kid Thomas Valentine Band: The case of ‘Basin Street Blues’—an approach from sociological musicology and cultural studies
- Star Trek and American Television
- The British Media and Bloody Sunday
- The end of the television licence fee? Applying the German household levy model to the United Kingdom
- The Extraordinary Archive of Arthur J. Munby: Photographing Class and Gender in the Nineteenth Century
- The photographic portrait : a means to surveillance and subversion
- The Picaro and the Prole, the Spiv and the Honest Tommy in Leon Griffiths's Minder
- The risks and benefits of collaborative documentary filmmaking in post-conflict Northern Ireland. An analysis of participant and audience responses to telling and hearing stories from the Troubles.
- The Social Construction of a Music Mecca: Goin' Home, New Orleans and International New Orleans Jazz Revivalism
- Totalizing Institutions, Critique and Resistance
- Tribeca Belfast and the on-screen regeneration of Northern Ireland
