Featuring CMPS researchers @davwright.bsky.social, Chris Bilton & Heidi Ashton and other stars in the creative labour/cultural policy firmament 👇👇

Watch here
www.youtube.com/live/OUAWf5l...

About to go live for our livestream on AI and the bullshittification of work.

Pleased to hear Drs. Melanie Stavrou, Hao Xie and Younggeon Byun talk about their work on Decolonisation as Cultural Justice.

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Great to see this article from our PhD student Pengyun Lu now out, open access, in @ejcs-journal.bsky.social
"Between ‘audience lords’ and ‘rich fathers’: Triadic relational labour and contingent moral improvisation among Chinese tech creators on UGC platforms"
journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Going live for our CDI stream on digital intimacies.

Looking forward to working, as part of the AHRC Creative Communities Co-Lab Policy network, on Strengthening the Cultural Foundations of the West Midlands

creativecommunities.uk/research_art...

🌍 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

Quitting Creative Industries: CMPS Research Seminar 1 with Cecilia Ghidotti - 18th October 2023 YouTube video by MCI Media Lab - University of Warwick

And you can hear Cecilia talking about this at a research seminar last year on our YouTube channel
youtu.be/fUA23VuZJNs?...

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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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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

Our Art, Enterprise and Development students enjoyed their recent trip to #coventrybiennial and @the-herbert.bsky.social. Thanks to Ryan Hughes for the tour.

🚀 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

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.

Avatars of the two speakers and a QR code to access this event

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 👇

Our second research seminar of the term. Andrea Wallace discussing
‘Intellectual Property Restitution: reorienting cultural property in a digital age’

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...

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"

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...

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...

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...

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 👇

open.spotify.com/show/6gMv78F...

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...

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."

📌 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

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

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

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

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

ahc.leeds.ac.uk/arts-humanit...

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.

Two figures in front of a green screen in the CMPS media lab. A third lurks in the background

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...

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...

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/...

I quit! Between Resignation and Refusal YouTube video by Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick

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...

The Politics of AI on CDI TV YouTube video by Centre for Digital Inquiry, University of Warwick

We're about to go live on CDI-TV
🍿🍿
youtube.com/live/E0rhTEw...