University of Huddersfield Media, Journalism, Film and Drama

🎞️ We are delighted to showcase Future Content Creators, a film by Dr Errol Salamon

👨‍💻It is based on a symposium he co-organized at the uni earlier this year aimed at helping budding social media content creators get a foothold in the sector

▶️Watch the film in full on YouTube

Future Content Creators This film was based on an event organised at the University of Huddersfield. On 12 January 2023, academics from the Department of Journalism, Film and Drama ...

🙂Strong Hud Media presence at in Glasgow this week

📺Yesterday Dr Ben Litherland gave a talk on Media & Morality then later in the day Conner Kacperski presented on Participatory Politics

🔊Plus on Wednesday Caroline Pringle is set to speak about Focused Podcast Listening

🎬 Danny Boyle is the Special Guest Speaker at the Costume Symposium hosted at the uni later this week

🎞️ The Trainspotting, Slumdog Millionaire, & 28 Days Later Director will be speaking on Fri 1st September

http://costumesymposium.co.uk/

With the 60th anniversary of Doctor Who on the horizon, Professor Matt Hills will be one of the co-editors of a new collection of writing assessing issues around the wider 'Whoniverse’ in Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader 👽🛸

https://www.hud.ac.uk/news/2023/august/doctor-who-books-60-years-anniversary/?utm_source=twitter&utm_medium=social&utm_campaign=socialcentral

🎬Congratulations to technician Tom & all of our film students

👩‍🚀Their short film 'Thrust' which was shot in our Patrick Stewart Film Studio has been nominated as a Semi Finalist entry for the International Playback Festival

⏳Finalist decision due this week so good luck team🤞

📰 NEWS: Scoring his dream job in a competitive field, sports journalism alumnus Harry says gaining real-world experience during his degree has been key to his success. Read the full story 👉 hud.ac/pbk 🏏

🚨 Online Research Talk🚨

Pop Culture News and the Process of Public Connection: A Qualitative Study of Digital News Audiences

🗣️ Joel Penney, Montclair State University
📍 Thu 23 Feb, 4.15pm (UK Time)
🌐 Online via MS Teams
🙂 All welcome. If interested message us for the link

Joel will be joining us from Montclair State University and presenting part of his new book, Pop Culture, Politics and the News (2022)

He explores how journalism has increasingly become a driver of political reporting, particularly in tandem with social media-based activism efforts addressing the cultural representation of marginalized identity groups

⚽️This week Huddersfield Sports Journalism graduate & EFL journalist Holly Hunt interviewed Manchester United’s World Cup winner Lisandro Martinez, Bruno Fernandes, and other members of the team ahead of the Carabao Cup final.

Nice one Holly!

We are delighted to announce a new Media, Culture and Creativity PhD scholarship.

We offer a three-year stipend (£17,668) and full fee waiver for a suitably qualified doctoral candidate from an under-represented background. We are accepting research proposals related to one of our three core areas of research expertise:

🗣️Participatory Culture

🖲️Digital, Cultural and Creative Industries

🎭Practice Research in Performance and/or Moving Image

Candidates should meet at least one of the following criteria:

⚫ Any experience in local authority care

⚫ Refugee status

⚫ Have a disability

⚫ Black or minority ethnic background

Applicants will be considered on the basis of the quality of their research proposal, their academic track record, their performance at interview and their fit to our areas of research expertise.

We strongly advise potential applicants to discuss their research proposals in advance of applying with our Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr Rebecca Saunders ([email protected]).

This Scholarship is open to home students only.

The closing date for applications is 9th June 2023.

We are delighted to announce a new Media, Culture and Creativity PhD scholarship.

We offer a three-year stipend (£17,668) and full fee waiver for a suitably qualified doctoral candidate from an under-represented background. We are accepting research proposals related to one of our three core areas of research expertise: 

Participatory Culture 

Digital, Cultural and Creative Industries 

Practice Research in Performance and/or Moving Image  

Candidates should meet at least one of the following criteria:  

Any experience in local authority care 

Refugee status 

Have a disability 

Black or minority ethnic background  

Applicants will be considered on the basis of the quality of their research proposal, their academic track record, their performance at interview and their fit to our areas of research expertise. 

We strongly advise potential applicants to discuss their research proposals in advance of applying with our Director of Postgraduate Research, Dr Rebecca Saunders ([email protected]). 

This Scholarship is open to home students only.   

The closing date for applications is 9th June 2023.