About CAMRI

CAMRI is located in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication within the School of Media, Arts and Design. The Department runs the UKs longest-established degree in media studies. Members of CAMRI are the founding editors of Media, Culture and Society (1979).

The Institute is the successor to the Centre for Communication and Information Studies (CCIS)which was given a 5 rating in the Research Assessment Exercise (RAE) of 1992, 1996, and 2001. In 2008 it has been rated as the best media and communication research centre in the UK.

Members of CAMRI have produced many high level research publications, for example Carnage and the Media (Seaton 2005), Making Journalists (de Burgh 2005),  Women and Media in the Middle East (Sakr 2004), Globalization, Development and the Mass Media (Sparks 2007), Diasporic Cultures (Tsagarousianou 2007), Creative Explorations (Gauntlett 2007), Restyling Factual TV (Hill 2007), and the history of Radio 4 Life on Air (Hendy 2007).

Members of CAMRI are responsible for editing seven scholarly journals including: Media, Culture and Society, Global Media and Communication, Middle East Journal of Culture and Communication, Journal of African Media Studies, Convergence, Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture and Interactions: Studies in Communications & Culture.

Through its vigorous policy of engagement with public institutions, policy-makers, politicians and regulators, CAMRI researchers engage with the outside world, influencing media policy in Britain and abroad. For example, de Burgh has been active in the All-Party Parliamentary Group on China and the Select Committee for Trade & Industry (2005-06), and Barnett was appointed as key advisor to the House of Lords on communications issues.

CAMRI has awards and other financial support from diverse sources. It has received research project, travel and seminar grants, and research leave awards from the ESRC, AHRC, British Academy, and three research fellowships from RCUK. European-led networks and seminars have been funded by the ESRC, and the EU. Independent research has been commissioned by the International Broadcasting Trust, the Rowntree Foundation, and the BBC.