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On 23-24 April 2026, Anke Fiedler from University of Greifswald gave a keynote speech on the topic of “Locality Constructed, Contested, and Lived: Rethinking Media Inequality in Post-Industrial Communities” at the workshop “Locality and Context: Examining the Role of Place in Understanding Media Inequalities”, organised by scholars from Indiana University’s Read more

Drawing on the UK data, the paper “Voices from the Periphery: discourses of marginalisation and lost futures in deindustrialised communities in England’s North” will be presented at the UK Political Studies Association Annual Conference, held in Oxford 30 March – 1 April. The paper is co-authored by Maike Dinger, Darren Read more

Our project team will host an IAMCR pre-conference in Dublin on the topic of “Representations of (Post-)Industrial Communities: Voice, Visibility and Value”. The Call for Papers can be found here and below. We are still accepting submissions. The pre-conference is free of charge and is supported by the IAMCR Section Read more

A contribution by the two VOICES team members, Anke Fiedler and James Morrison, on the relationship between mass media regulation and social inequality in a UK–Germany comparative perspective has just been published in the peer-reviewed journal Javnost – The Public. Click here to read the full open-access article: Fiedler, A., Read more

The publication of the Index of Multiple Deprivation 25, 30 October 2025, by the Ministry of Housing, Communities and Local Government (MHCLG) demonstrates continuing inequalities across the UK which has a severe impact on communities. The Index of Multiple Deprivations ranks neighbourhoods according to the extent of them experiencing multiple Read more

The British-German VOICES team was represented with two presentations at this year’s MeCCSA Annual Meeting in Edinburgh: The conference also saw James Morrison awarded a runners-up certificate in the Best Edited Collection category of the 2025 MeCCSA Outstanding Achievement Awards, for the book Silenced Voices and the Media: Who Gets Read more

As part of our ongoing research, members of our UK-team have submitted written evidence to a committee inquiry of the British Parliament. The inquiry on “Local bus services in England” asked for evidence on public transport across England to be submitted by 3 July 2025. Following on from the national Read more

The VOICES paper “Lauchhammer – Death in Lusatia: Interpretive Power and Self-Perception in Post-Industrial Communities” by Andy Räder has been accepted for this year’s Annual Conference of the German Society for Media Studies in Paderborn. The presentation explores how the ARD crime series and its accompanying para-texts (web documentaries, interviews Read more

The VOICES paper “How do different models of media regulation influence approaches to social inequality: A comparative qualitative analysis of key legal texts from Germany and the UK” by Anke Fiedler and James Morrison has been accepted for presentation at this year’s IAMCR conference in Singapore. In the talk, they Read more

VOICES researcher Dr James Morrison has been shortlisted for a prestigious academic prize by the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MeCCSA). His collection Silenced Voices and the Media: Who Gets to Speak? – co-edited with Professor Sarah Pedersen of Robert Gordon University, Aberdeen – has been shortlisted in the Read more