Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research

AHRC BBC Radio Listeners Online - 2007 to 2008

Interactive Cultures led the AHRC-BBC Pilot Knowledge Exchange Programme into Listener online…

AHRC Knowledge Transfer Fellowship - 2011 to 2013

The Knowledge Transfer Fellowship (KTF) in New Strategies for Radio and Music Organisations aimed…

Supporting diversity in the craft economy

Exploring  BAME female craft workers’ use of social media for self-promotion, networking and…

CETL Interactive Technologies for Active Learning

Interactive Cultures worked on a pilot study to deepen Birmingham City University's understanding…

Cities and Science Communication

This project aimed to assess ways of building a scientific culture, in order to devise and test…

Culture Cloud - 2011 to 2012

Interactive Cultures is one of a number of academic evaluation teams working on projects funded…

Developing Citizen Journalists in the Arab region

Developing Citizen Journalists in the Arab Region is a two-year project funded by the British…

Digital Champions for a Digital Birmingham - 2009 to 2011

On behalf of Birmingham City Council, this project was intended to benefit Birmingham-based…

iMeedan - 2011 to 2012

The iMeedan project focused on making a contribution to improving media plurality in Egypt, through…

Innovative Media and Music Heritage - 2011 to 2013

Birmingham Centre for Media and Cultural Research (BCMCR) are the leaders of an EU-funded Leonardo…

Media, Community and the Creative Citizen - 2012 to 2014

Every day millions of citizens do something creative, from genealogy to knitting, photography or…

Online Music Enterprise - 2005 to 2006

Online Music Enterprise was a two-year Research and Knowledge Transfer initiative funded by the…

Rhythm Changes - 2012 to 2013

Rhythm Changes is a transnational research project which investigates jazz scenes and practices in…

1960s jazz broadcasting

Recreating music TV's golden era

Establishing a cross-generational forum of archivists, fan collectors and media studies academics.

CHIME Research Project

Exploring the uses of different types of heritage

Why festivals are so undervalued in Europe’s culture

M & E Lab

Developing effective media methods

Helping improve monitoring and evaluation for new projects and ongoing research.

Rhythm Changes

Discovering new insights into European issues

New insights to address social, cultural and political problems

Taking humour seriously

Researching the world of online blogging

The role of humour in successful gossip blogs

Go Home Campaign

Examining the campaign's impact

Examining the impacts of the Home Office's immigration campaign

CI & CE

Getting deprived communities involved in creative cultures

Cultural Intermediation and Creative Economy

Jazz & Everyday Aesthetics

Exploring the everyday value of jazz

Connecting jazz scholars with jazz audiences through workshops across Europe.