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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies
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Researching and teaching about the creative and media industries and cultural policy at the University of Warwick since 1999. Part of the School of Creative Arts, Performance and Visual Cultures (SCAPVC).
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Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social · 20d
🌍 Want to shape the future of film, TV, games & immersive media? Creative Bridges CDT offers fully funded PhDs tackling sustainability & diversity in the UK screen industries
#CreativeBridges #PhDResearch
👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
ccmpswarwick.bsky.social
🌍 Want to shape the future of film, TV, games & immersive media? Creative Bridges CDT offers fully funded PhDs tackling sustainability & diversity in the UK screen industries
#CreativeBridges #PhDResearch
👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk
December 11, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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Read a new paper in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social from our excellent colleague Cecilia Ghidotti. 'On Quitting Cultural Work'...

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December 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
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Our Art, Enterprise and Development students enjoyed their recent trip to #coventrybiennial and @the-herbert.bsky.social. Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the tour.
Students in a gallery space Students and their teacher in front of images in an art gallery Students in front of a venue for Coventry Biennial Curator discussing an art work with students
December 9, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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🚀 Applications are OPEN for Creative Bridges CDT, a pioneering PhD programme to diversify talent in the screen industries! Fully funded studentships available. Apply by 20 April 2026 👉 creativebridges-cdt.ac.uk #PhDOpportunity #ScreenIndustries #DiversityInMedia
November 29, 2025 at 7:22 AM
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Great few days in Prato working on our @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social and @monashuniversity.bsky.social Alliance Activation award on Digital and Cultural Heritage.
November 28, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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Next week: A live recording of the FUTURES podcast feat @lukerobertmason.net and @profstevefuller.bsky.social discussing Media and the Power of Knowledge
RSVP: forms.office.com/e/x1QfsAbAd6
Details 👇
Avatars of the two speakers and a QR code to access this event
November 17, 2025 at 4:07 PM
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Our second research seminar of the term. Andrea Wallace discussing
‘Intellectual Property Restitution: reorienting cultural property in a digital age’
November 5, 2025 at 1:53 PM
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davwright.bsky.social
Our former @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social and @sociowarwick.bsky.social graduate Dr. Sun Park is now doing great things at @ucdischool.bsky.social - including leading this amazing PhD project on AI & Heritage 👇

www.ucd.ie/ics/vacancie...
PhD scholarship in AI and Heritage Futures
PhD scholarship in AI and Heritage Futures
www.ucd.ie
October 20, 2025 at 10:49 AM
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A great turn out for our first research seminar of the year, featuring @sociowarwick.bsky.social's Akane Kanai, talking about "Legible feminine subjectivities in online culture"
October 15, 2025 at 12:25 PM
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As part of the Museum of Climate Stories project @jlarkin65.bsky.social is working with artist Caitlin Kiely and Coventry Biennial, using collage to re-imagine @coventrycathedral.bsky.social at workshops this weekend. Sign up 👇

www.coventrybiennial.com/events/recon...
Reconstructing the Cathedral: A Drop-In Collage Workshop with Caitlin Kiely
Join Birmingham-based artist and educator Caitlin Kiely to reimagine and reconstruct the iconic post-war Coventry Cathedral through the process of collage. Caitlin often takes archival material as a...
www.coventrybiennial.com
July 24, 2025 at 8:08 AM
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If you're looking for media and creative industries content to keep you going over the summer, head over to Media Whatever, our podcast series feat. Chris Bilton, @carolinabandinelli.bsky.social and a series of guests from our research seminars 👇

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Media Whatever
Podcast · MCI Media Lab · Welcome to Media Whatever, the new podcast from the Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies at the University of Warwick. The podcast is about research from the Media a...
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July 17, 2025 at 3:52 PM
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Attention @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social students, alumni, staff and former staff! As part of our Museum of Climate Stories project, @jlarkin65.bsky.social is collecting stories about encounters with the plants and animals with whom we share our campus 👇
warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
Call for submissions: The Campus Kin Project
Urban Village Project
warwick.ac.uk
July 11, 2025 at 2:22 PM
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📌 THE STATE OF THE ARTS: One Year On 📌

Last July, we published a landmark report with
@ccmpswarwick.bsky.social examining the State of the Arts in the UK across 5 health metrics. One year later, we’re revisiting each one 🧮

#2 is Arts Education, with the @neunion.bsky.social
Heading of Arts Education with the description "A society in which the arts are healthy is one in which high-quality arts education is valued and available to all, fostering creativity and developing the artists and audiences of the future."
July 9, 2025 at 12:15 PM
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We're delighted to be part of @uni-of-warwick.bsky.social's partnership with @universityofleeds.bsky.social and other partners, directing @ukri.org PhD funding to the challenges of the creative industries. Details in the 🧵 #screenindustries #PhDtraining
leedsunimedia.bsky.social Media and Communication @ University of Leeds @leedsunimedia.bsky.social · Jul 3
📢 Exciting news! The University of Leeds and the University of Warwick have together secured one of just ten AHRC Doctoral Focal Awards for Creative Bridges – a major new interdisciplinary PhD programme focused on sustainability and diversity in the screen industries. 🧵
July 3, 2025 at 12:16 PM
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davwright.bsky.social
Really delighted to be working with @leedsunimedia.bsky.social and @joannegh.bsky.social on this initiative . If you're a UK-based researcher interested in a @ukri.org funded PhD on diversity and sustainability, watch this space! 👇
#ScreenIndustries #CreativeBridges #PhDTraining
July 3, 2025 at 10:20 AM
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leedsunimedia.bsky.social
Thanks to everyone involved in this work.

@universityofleeds.bsky.social

@uni-of-warwick.bsky.social

‪@joannegh.bsky.social

@davwright.bsky.social

@leedsunimedia.bsky.social

@ukri.org

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Universities of Leeds and Warwick secure prestigious national award for new joint PhD programme focused on screen industries
The programme, Creative Bridges, draws on the established screen media clusters in Yorkshire and the Midlands to connect academic and industry expertise
ahc.leeds.ac.uk
July 3, 2025 at 9:44 AM
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Many thanks to @tellynelly.bsky.social for delivering our CMPS Annual Lecture. Really important research on the differences between the duty and ethics of care in Reality TV.
June 25, 2025 at 12:19 PM
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Thanks to Cecilia Ghidotti and @vivaharehills.bsky.social for a fascinating discussion of the politics of quitting. Watch it back on CDI-TV 👇
www.youtube.com/live/GS8V7PT...
Two figures in front of a green screen in the CMPS media lab. A third lurks in the background
June 23, 2025 at 7:16 PM
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Tomorrow, we'll be welcoming @tellynelly.bsky.social to give the CMPS Annual Lecture, discussing the @recaretv.bsky.social project and duties of care in reality TV.

You're welcome to join us

4.30pm, FAB0.08 👇

warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/sca...
CMPS Annual Lecture: Professor Helen Wood on Duties of Care in UK Reality TV
We're delighted to be welcoming Professor Helen Wood from Aston University to deliver this year's CMPS Annual Lecture: 'Between the duty of care and an ethics of care: compliance, work and experiences...
warwick.ac.uk
June 23, 2025 at 8:10 AM
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Our Centre Director Pietari Kääpä has co-edited a new special edition of the Film Education Journal on 'Film Education and the Environment'. With Hunter Vaughan and Mette Hjort.

Out Now! 👇

journals.uclpress.co.uk/fej/article/...
‘Film education and the environment’ – Special issue of the Film Education Journal
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June 19, 2025 at 12:24 PM
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Why not knock off early on Monday and tune-in to CDI-TV featuring Cecilia Ghidotti and @vivaharehills.bsky.social on quitting in the creative industries 👇

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS8V...
I quit! Between Resignation and Refusal
YouTube video by Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick
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June 18, 2025 at 12:39 PM
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We're about to go live on CDI-TV
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The Politics of AI on CDI TV
YouTube video by Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick
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June 6, 2025 at 3:33 PM
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Getting ready for our closing Critical Dialogues on AI roundtable
June 6, 2025 at 3:25 PM
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I am excited to be part of this panel on The Politics of AI this Friday. Come join us if you are in Warwick or around.
ccmpswarwick.bsky.social Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Studies @ccmpswarwick.bsky.social · Jun 2
Joins us this Friday for our Critical Dialogues on AI event, featuring @joannegh.bsky.social , Tanaya Guha, Sanjay Sharma, Sebastián Lehuedé, @bheravi.bsky.social and our own @carolinabandinelli.bsky.social 👇
June 5, 2025 at 4:04 PM
ccmpswarwick.bsky.social
Joins us this Friday for our Critical Dialogues on AI event, featuring @joannegh.bsky.social , Tanaya Guha, Sanjay Sharma, Sebastián Lehuedé, @bheravi.bsky.social and our own @carolinabandinelli.bsky.social 👇
June 2, 2025 at 1:43 PM