Over the last 2 years, Associates at the cf. have been working on a groundbreaking new project called #media2012, which is a UK wide and international community of artists, curators, academics and students who are enacting citizen journalism projects around the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games. This month, the project received recognition from PODIUM, [...]

On March 8th, cf. Associate Dr Daniel Livingstone attended a cross-party meeting at the Scottish Parliament to consider the future of Video Games Policy in Scotland. The cross-party special interest group is responsible for advancing the industry within Scotland. Last month, Daniel appeared on STV speaking about the current state of the industry.

In debates about the public understanding of science, the role of experts and expertise is a recurrent theme. cf. Director Andy Miah considers how we may be witnessing the birth of a new era of the public intellectual, characterized by their celebrity status. Many scientists or professors are called upon by the media to comment [...]

This week, cf. Associate Ewan Crawford has appeared across the UK media speaking about the Scottish devolution debate, which has been headline news this week. Ewan was formerly private secretary to John Swinney, the former leader of the Scottish National party, and is a regular commentator on Scottish politics in the Guardian, the Scotsman and appears [...]

cf. Director Prof Andy Miah writes about the ethical issues arising from the current Leveson inquiry into how the media conduct business. This article was published in the Huffington Post.

cf. Director Andy Miah’s latest piece for the Huffington Post gets a sneak preview on the cf. website: IN RECENT YEARS, a new breed of artists named bioartists have begun to infiltrate gallery spaces and scientific laboratories in pursuit of creative expression and new knowledge. Their number includes some of the world’s most adventurous avant-garde [...]

cf. Director Andy Miah gives a 3minute short film about the Future of Genetics, within which he discusses the shift away from debates about Designer Babies towards discussions about the use of genetic information within society. He argues that the moderate achievements of the Human Genome Project urge caution in views about genetic determinism, but [...]

As our research community @UWScreative plan towards REF2014, we are going back over data collated by HEFCE for the Research Assessment Exercise 2008. We want to gain insights into what our Unit of Assessment looks like and make this public to everyone within our community. This presentation gives a first draft at what we’ve found [...]

cf. Associate Dr David McGillivray spoke last week at a conference which formed part of a project investigating the role of football in improving the lives of people with dementia. The research underpinning the project draws on cultural studies and gerontology to propose a theory of reminiscence that can have a great impact on the [...]

On Saturday 19th November, cf. Associate Jennifer Jones will give a talk at Tent City University, a space within the #OccupyLSX where people can “learn, share knowledge and develop skills through a wide series of workshops, lectures, debates, films, games, praxis and action.”   The Occupy movement has captured the attention of the world’s media [...]

cf. Director Professor Andy Miah spoke last week in Moscow at the 3rd International Moscow Readings conference at Moscow State University. The conference considered the rise of journalism within culture, the growth of social media and the role of media ethics within the profession.   Professor Miah was invited to Russia to speak about the [...]

cf. Associate Dr David McGillivray presents a keynote at the Play the Game ‘Challenges for Football’ conference in Aarhus, Denmark entitled ‘Mega Events and New Media. He argued that there is evidence of the (successful) appropriation of new media by the corporate sport-media nexus and the resultant tsunami of narratives serves to reduce ‘space’ for alternative discourses. Initiatives [...]

cf. Director, Prof Andy Miah will give a lecture at the Brain Gear conference this week, associated with the European Neuroscience & Society Network. His talk will focus on the ethics of cognitive enhancement. The event brings together artists, scientists, sociologists and philosophers to consider the implications of new technology that can alter the mind.The [...]

cf. Director Prof Andy Miah gave a talk titled ‘There’s Nothing Virtual About the Future‘ at the #virtualfutures 2.0 conference @WarwickUni last weekend. This conference brought back some of the pioneers of cybercultural studies from the 1990s to re-think where new digital technology is likely to take humanity in the future. Here’s a review from [...]

This year’s festival included four contributions from cf. Director Prof Andy Miah on the following subjects: Synthetic Biology  (8th June) Biology is being thought of in a whole new way – as a bunch of parts that can be engineered to create ‘synthetic’ biological things. But what does that mean? And should we be playing [...]

cf. Director Prof Andy Miah will make two interventions at this remarkable event in Hamburg from May 12-14. The congress is unlike any other and will take place in film sets, which will be shot as scenarios, as though in a movie. Produced by the remarkable Mobile Academy, funded by the German Federal Cultural Foundation [...]

Dr Jonathan Sykes Adisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre Director of eMotion Lab Glasgow Caledonian University   Biography Jonathan is a senior play researcher at Glasgow Caledonian University. He is director of eMotionLab, a premier research facility which offers both consultancy and development services in the area of game production and play-testing. Skilled in the [...]

Dr Philip Drake Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre Deputy Head of Postgraduate Schol Department of Film, Media & Journalism University of Stirling   Biography After completing a BA (Hons) in English and Economics (First Class) at the University of Keele, Dr rake received an MPhil (Distinction) in Media and Culture from the John Logie [...]

Dr Mariann Hardey Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre Associate Director of the Centre for Communication Science Durham Business School University of Durham @mazrred   Biography Dr Mariann Hardey is a social media professional and academic and the BBC North East commentator for social media and digital networks.  She read literature at the University of [...]

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Professor Angela McRobbie Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre Department of Media & Communications Goldsmiths, University of London @angelamcrobbie Biography The early research by Angela McRobbie (1976-1986) focused on young women and social class, popular culture, subculture, music and style. Between the mid 1980s and mid 1990s her attention turned to cultural production in the [...]

Dr Beatriz Garcia Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre Head of Research, Institute of Cultural Capital, Liverpool Liverpool University @beatriz_garcia   Biography Dr Beatriz García is Head of Research at the Institute of Cultural Capital, a collaboration between the University of Liverpool and Liverpool John Moores University. She is also the director of Impacts 08 – The Liverpool [...]

Professor Roy Ascott Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre Director, Planetary Collegium, University of Plymouth     Biography Roy Ascott was born in Bath, England. He was educated at the City of Bath Boys’ School. His National Service was spent as an officer in the Royal Air Force working with radar defence systems). From 1955-59 he studied Fine Art at King’s College, University of Durham (now Newcastle University) [...]

Emeritus Professor Arthur I. Miller Advisory Board, Creative Futures Research Centre   Biography Prof Miller is emeritus professor of history and philosophy of science at University College London. He is the author of several acclaimed books, the most recent of which are EINSTEIN, PICASSO (Basic, 2001) and EMPIRE OF THE STARS (Little, Brown/Houghton Mifflin, 2005), [...]

(25 May, 2012) After the 2008 Research Assessment Exercise, the summary report acknowledged the growing volume of practice-based research outputs within the Communication, Cultural & Media Studies Unit of Assessment.It also emphasized the need for practice-based researchers to provide clearer detail on the research process underpinning their work, but questions remain about how any given [...]

The cf. presents an evening lecture by Gideon Kossoff titled: ‘Early Thoughts on Transition Design’. The event is chaired by cf. Associate Director Graham Jeffery and takes place on 14th November 2011, the eve of the Shortlines Symposium. To register, click here.   “Everyone designs who devises a course of action aimed at changing existing [...]

As part of the cf. associated #media2012 project, cf. Associates will take part in a workshop run in partnership with the Abandon Normal Devices festival and Scraperwiki.  Find below the event brief. 2nd October 2011 FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology), 88 Wood Street, Liverpool, L1 4DQ FACT Medialab 11:00 – 17:00 Since the [...]

Professor Miah is part of the curatorial community of the Abandon Normal Devices festival, a flagship Cultural Olympiad project in the North West of England. This year, it takes place in Liverpool for the second time where Professor Miah will Chair debates and a #media2012 event. To view the programme for this year, click here.

cf. Director Prof Andy Miah is Co-Chair of this year’s Media Art History conference, taking place in Liverpool. The cf. at UWS is a partner for the conference, which is the fourth International Conference on the Histories of Media Art, Science and Technology. It will be hosted by FACT (Foundation for Art and Creative Technology) and [...]

image by Nik*Rad, on Flickr An International Bioethics Workshop University of The West of Scotland, Paisley Campus 30 May 2011 Habermasian Bioethics: A new paradigm? led by Dr Darryl Gunson, cf. Associate in the School of Social Sciences. “The perceived, and dreaded, advances of genetic engineering affect the very concept we have of ourselves as [...]

On Jan 24th, the cf. hosted an event sponsored by the Research Councils UK, PODIUM and ICSEMIS 2012, under the auspices of the London 2012 Olympic and Paralympic Games ‘inspired’ programme. Speakers included Professor Miah, artist Francesca Steele (pictured here) and genetic scientist Dr Yannis Pitsalidis.  

The cf. was co-host of the #media2012 programme led by cf. Director Professor Andy Miah in collaboration with the Abandon Normal Devices Festival and the London 2012 Creative Programmers in Scotland, the North West and the South West. Delegates came from around the world and included Emilio Fernandez Pena from Barcelona, Rasmus Johnsen from Denmark, Kris [...]

The Scotsman published a 4 page feature about cf. Director  Professor Andy Miah this week in its print magazine Spectrum, part of the Scotland on Sunday edition. The full article can be found here.

Prof Miah writes for the Guardian Higher Education section on what legacy should be left for HE by the London 2012 Olympic & Paralympic Games.

With the next UK government assessment of research, Prof Miah writes for the Guardian  HE section on how academics may best use their time.

Ewan Crawford writes for the Scotsman considering what should come next for the British monarchy in the year of the Queen’s jubilee

Ewan Crawford debates the future of Scotland on the BBC Radio 4 Today programme.

Prof Andy Miah writes for the Guardian Higher Education section on the new kind of public intellectual, characterized by celebrity scientists.

Ewan Crawford writes for the Scotsman about the future of Scottish politics in the wake of the British Prime Minister David Cameron’s intervention over a Scottish independence referendum.

Prof Andy Miah appeared on the BBC World Service to debate the merit of Sexing up Science and the Research Excellence Framework 2014 impact requirement with Nobel prize winner Sir Harry Kroto.