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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…

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 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 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.