Our first trip to the Teesside area was a opportunity to gain first insights into an area built around steel. The steel provided the basis for a thriving shipbuilding industry. It also made it a hub for other industries, not least the biggest chemical works in the country built by Read more
The VOICES consortium met for the first time on 2-4 March 2025. The meeting started with a one-day workshop at the premises of Helle Panke e.V. in Berlin. This was followed by a city tour of Eisenhüttenstadt.
How do the people of Lauchhammer remember the industrial age and its decline? With this question in mind, students from the University of Greifswald travelled to Lusatia on 21 and 22 February 2025. This was the seventh storytelling café organised in the town as part of the VOICES research project.Discussions Read more
Prof. Lilleker was invited to be keynote speaker and drew on some of the data from the Rotherham storytelling cafes as well as responses to images posted to commemorate Silverwood colliery, a pit in the heart of Maltby near Rotherham. The talk centred on nostalgia, a feature of the memorialisation Read more
Call for Participation: Share Your Story! We warmly invite the residents of Eisenhüttenstadt to take part in our research project. We are looking for individuals born before 1970 who experienced the process of deindustrialization in the region and are willing to share their personal stories. How has the economic transformation Read more
In April 2024 the publication ‘Sorbische Filmlandschaften. Serbske filmowe krajiny’ was published by our project member Andy Räder in collaboration with the author and filmmaker Grit Lemke. The book was produced in cooperation with the Sorbian Institute and the DEFA Foundation and highlights the film work of the Sorbs/Wends, an Read more
Morrison, J. (2024) ‘Abusing the unprotected ‘poor’: The prevalence of povertyist stigma and hate speech on unmoderated newspaper comment threads’, Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, 13(2), pp.237-257. Project Co-investigator Dr James Morrison has published a new article in the Journal of Applied Journalism and Media Studies, focusing on Read more
A timely new research anthology, co-edited by project member Dr James Morrison (in cooperation with Professor Sarah Pedersen of Robert-Gordon University, Aberdeen), was published earlier this month. Entitled Silenced Voices and the Media: Who Gets to Speak? (Palgrave Macmillan), the book examines the marginalisation – or ‘silencing’ – of various Read more
The UK research team started collecting contributions from members of the public to the “Voices from the Periphery” project with a site visit to Rotherham. From 23 to 25 October, they ran three discussion groups with locals who have experienced industrial decline in Rotherham first-hand. The discussion groups, held in Read more
We are looking for former Lauchhammer miners for our first series of storytelling cafés: The Storytelling Cafés will take place at the Traditionsverein in Lauchhammer. We look forward to a lively participation.