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New Generation Thinkers
For those of you who haven't heard of it, New Generation Thinkers (NGT) is a scheme for early career researchers and postdocs run by both the AHRC and the BBC. In the past two years, BCU has enjoyed some success in the competition, with Dr Islam Issa appointed as a...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Craig Hamilton
Hi Craig, congratulations on passing your viva! What was your PhD title? The Harkive Project: popular music, data, and digital technologies Can you explain in a couple of sentences what your PhD was about? I was interested in the relationship between of digital, data...
Media Insight Training: Communicating Your Research Confidently
As an academic researcher, you're probably comfortable with the idea of communicating your research at a conference or in a journal paper. But what about reaching a wider audience, can you pick out popular interest stories from your research, and does the prospect of...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Jakub Ceglarz
Hi Jakub, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Odd and little bit anti-climactic. At the same time, I am extremely glad and thankful to everyone involved – a PhD is a team sport and I had an amazing team. What was your PhD title? Ummm…wait - let me...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Edmund Hunt
Hi Edmund, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! It was great to feel that years of work had come to fruition. I was very pleased to have passed, although it was a bit of an anti-climax; something which had been an all-consuming part of my life had...
Corpus Linguistics Approaches to Data: Andrew Chatora
Andrew Chatora, a first year doctoral student, reflects on his experience of attending a workshop on corpus linguistics. I attended the Corpus Linguistics workshop at Birmingham City University as it felt novel, and I was chiefly interested in seeing whether it would...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Jerome Turner
Hi Jerome, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Good! It really did feel like the final but also biggest hurdle, and I’m glad to have got through it. What was your PhD title? Hyperlocal community media audiences: An ethnographic study of local...
WANTED! Cultural translation bloggers: James Hodgson
PGR Bloggers Wanted! . I am looking for a 3 - 5 PGR students interested in contributing to a new blog about Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research's Cultural Translation theme (details post-scripted below). I am after people to write short (200 - 500 word)...
Finding the Groove: Ed McKeon
Finding the Groove by Ed McKeon My research is part-time. Part time, partitioned time, the relation of moments to a whole; and part time, about time – or rather timeliness. It’s also about a time of parts, a present ‘historical’ moment comprised of fragments that...
Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities: Angela English
The DCDC17 (Discovering Collections, Discovering Communities) Conference was organised jointly by the National Archives and Research Libraries UK and was held at The Lowry, Salford Quays 27-29 November 2017. The conference theme was the cultural value of...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Karen Patel
Hi Karen, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Great! It took about a week to sink in, people calling me ‘Dr’ helped but it was a strange moment when I was told I had passed. For 3 years the viva was this big scary thing that I was dreading, but in...
Viva 60-second interview: Dr Gregory Dunn
Hi Gregory, congratulations on passing your viva! How does it feel?! Thank you, it feels lovely. Even though I have work (minor amendments) to complete, it’s great to have gotten this far and fulfilled the promise that I made to my family, friends and to myself....
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