Projects per year
Organisation profile
Organisation profile
Politics doesn’t just happen in parties and parliaments, nor does it only happen during elections.
We look at how politics is a pervasive force in our lives outside those spaces and times. In doing so we explore the everyday nature of power, its lived experience as oppression and privilege; we examine the importance of identity, its formation and politicisation and how these deeply felt modes of difference and similarity structure the contemporary socio-political landscape; we interrogate ideology and the way it takes shape in the complex networked fora of the digital.
In all these examples, the role of the media and the importance of culture are central, and we approach these core areas of inquiry from a variety of different socio-cultural locations and through a range of theoretical perspectives. Our research looks at the way social movements form and what conditions enable their success or limit their capacity to change society. We look at how critical theory opens a window on power relations: how they are formed, sustained and challenged. We ask practical questions about regulation and governance of these fields, particularly as digital technologies present new challenges for established models of understanding. We demonstrate the way that media and politics connect at the psychological and behavioural levels, but also how individual experience of political affect can be aggregated into potent collectivities.
Our research group draws on deep and varied wells of expertise in political science, cultural studies, media theory, media regulation, journalism, psychology, area studies and more. Individual scholars will often have expertise across more than one of these fields leading to vibrant collaborations and productive interdisciplinarity.
Network
Profiles
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Oliver Brooks
- School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies - Lecturer
- Political, Social and International Studies - Member
- Cultural Politics, Communications & Media - Member
Person: Academic, Teaching & Scholarship, Research Group Member
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Sally Broughton Micova
- School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies - Associate Professor in Communications, Policy & Politics
- Political, Social and International Studies - Member
- Centre for Competition Policy - Member
- Cultural Politics, Communications & Media - Member
- Policy & Politics - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Research Centre Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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Alan Finlayson
- School of Politics, Philosophy, Language and Communication Studies - Professor of Political & Social Theory
- Political, Social and International Studies - Member
- Cultural Politics, Communications & Media - Member
- Policy & Politics - Member
Person: Research Group Member, Academic, Teaching & Research
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BA Researcher at Risk: Social roles, identities and values in the families of Ukrainian refugees in 2022-2024
1/02/23 → 31/01/25
Project: Fellowship
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Transcendence, fantasy and desire: the affective infrastructures of neoliberalism
Ibled, C., Finlayson, A. & Ibled, C.
Economic and Social Research Council
1/10/22 → 30/09/23
Project: Fellowship
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Activism and objectivity in political research
Frazer, M., 23 Jan 2023, (Accepted/In press) In: Perspectives on Politics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile -
COVID-19 and ‘the public’: UK government discourse and the British Political Tradition
Finlayson, A., Jarvis, L. & Lister, M., 11 Jan 2023, (E-pub ahead of print) In: Contemporary Politics.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
Open AccessFile4 Downloads (Pure) -
Effective and Proportionate Implementation of the DMA
de Streel, A., Bourreau, M., Broughton Micova, S., Feasey, R., Fletcher, A., Kraemer, J., Monti, G. & Peitz, M., 13 Jan 2023, Centre for Regulation in Europe (CERRE).Research output: Book/Report › Other report
Open Access
Prizes
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Martin Sundby
Alan Finlayson (Host)
6 Mar 2023 → 20 Mar 2023Activity: Hosting a visitor › Hosting an academic visitor
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BOOK LAUNCH: Humanitarian Journalists - the solution to under-reported crises (London / Frontline club)
Martin Scott (Speaker)
30 Jan 2023Activity: Participating in or organising an event › Public lecture/debate/seminar
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Systemic Risk in Digital Services (award R212168)
Sally Broughton Micova (Contributor)
11 Jan 2023 → …Activity: Other activity types › Other
Press/Media
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UK Politics round up (BBC Suffolk radio morning show)
3/03/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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morning show, UK Politics (BBC Radio Norfolk)
1/02/23
1 item of Media coverage
Press/Media: Press / Media
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Why so many humanitarian crises are ‘forgotten’, and 5 ideas to change that (The New Humanitarian)
17/01/23
1 Media contribution
Press/Media: Press / Media