May | 2016 | CCCI@City

Congratulations Zeena on new post at Kings!

Congratulations to Dr Zeena Feldman who has just obtained a new position as a Lecturer in Digital Culture in the Department of Digital Humanities at King’s College London! Zeena completed her PhD thesis here at City in CCI (with Jo Littler); her thesis ‘Articulating Belonging Online: Couchsurfing.org, Social Media and the Power of Passion-based Social…

Jo talks at Loughborough in London

Jo Littler travelled all the way to Hackney Wick yesterday to talk to students and staff at Loughborough University in London about her research interests, academic history and experience of Higher Education.

Jo talks about mediated elitism at Warwick

Dr Jo Littler gave a talk yesterday at the University of Warwick on “Kind parents, luxurious winners and normcore plutocrats: the mediated popularisation of ‘meritocratic’ elitism”. The talk was for staff and graduate students in the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies and beyond and the abstract can be read here

Dr Rachel O’Neill nominated for the SAGE/Sociological Research Online prize for innovation and excellence

Congratulations to Dr Rachel O’Neill who has been nominated for the SAGE/Sociological Research Online prize for innovation and excellence. This is an outstanding achievement which recognizes the very best of sociological research. There are five nominees each year, and Rachel’s nomination has her alongside luminaries like Les Back. It is an extraordinarily impressive achievement for…

Congratulations Dr De Benedictis!

Congratulations are due! Prof Ros Gill’s PhD student Sara de Benedictis was awarded her PhD yesterday with no corrections! Her thesis looked at birth on television, exploring the meaning and impact of reality/factual hybrids like One Born Every Minute. Sara’s thesis was examined by two brilliant sociologists: Professor Bev Skeggs and Professor Steph Lawler who…

NEW PUNKS ON THE BLOCK – WEDNESDAY 18 MAY 2016 MEET THE CUTTING EDGE OF THE INDEPENDENT MUSIC SECTOR 10AM – 6PM + AFTER PARTY TILL LATE

As part of CCI’s 40th anniversary celebrations we have teamed up with Tileyard Education to bring together a complete cross section of the UK independent music sector to discuss the nature and growth of DIY artist development, production and live music brought about by new technology and the connectivity that the internet affords creativity.This will…