Between icebreakers and penguins, we were present with a poster at the AHRC-DFG-funded “UK-German Arts and Humanities Bilateral Celebration Event” at the British Arctic Survey in Cambridge on 7-8 May. We heard Read more…
Two papers from our VOICES project team have been accepted for the 2025 MeCCSA Annual Conference, to be held in Edinburgh on 4-6 September!
Paper accepted for publication in the Journal of Visual Political Communication. Darren Lilleker & Maike Dinger (Bournemouth University) Abstract Art of all forms is inherently political, even if it does not pursue Read more…
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 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 Read more…
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 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 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 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 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 Read more…