Project Title: Media Diversity in the UK: Persistent Inequalities and Emerging Agendas
Project Code: MD-UK - 40203701
Project Description:
The student will undertake research on a media platform (e.g., press, broadcasting, digital) and will explore the selected platform’s equity, diversity and inclusion agenda and its related practices, outputs, and future planning. Conclusions drawn from the project will tackle questions about ongoing inequalities and emerging trends in the UK’s media sector. The outcomes of this project will inform research on this and related topics, as well as present action-points and recommendations for media diversity professionals and policymakers.
We are particularly interested to hear from applicants who are under-represented in both the media sector and the academia.
Anticipated Findings:
It is anticipated that this project will portray the state of media diversity in the UK today, highlighting persistent inequalities and emerging agendas and unpacking the factors and actors that determine today’s state of media diversity in the UK.
In identifying evidence on the importance and ramifications of today’s state of media diversity for the future of the media sector in the country, the project will contribute to research and empirical work on media diversity and will provide conceptual insights and evidence that will inform research in relevant disciplines and comparable contexts.
Contact (and Director of Studies for this project):
Prof Panayiota Tsatsou – Panayiota.Tsatsou@bcu.ac.uk
Application Link: https://www.bcu.ac.uk/courses/media-and-cultural-studies-phd-2024-25