Welcome to the February 2017 CEMP Newsletter

About CEMP: In 2005 the Higher Education Funding Council for England accredited the only national Centre for Excellence in Teaching and Learning in Media at Bournemouth University. CEMP is now an established research centre within the School of Journalism, English and Communications. The centre has developed a suite of unique blended distance-learning programmes: the MA in Creative & Media Education; the Media Short Course CPD Framework and the Doctor of Creative / Media Education. CEMP founded the annual Media Education Summit, now an international conference hosted in a different country each year and produces the Media Education Research Journal and the Journal of Media Practice. CEMP researchers have provided research projects for the EU / EC, AHRC and ESRC, the BBC, Higher Education Academy, EPSRC, Sixteen Films / the BFI, Reuters, the United Kingdom Literacy Association, the Media Education Association, British Academy and Samsung. 
 
CEMP benefits from research collaboration, co-authoring, supervision, consultancy and course input from a group of experts in creative arts, media and education research, working with us as Visiting Fellows and Professors: Yoko Akama (RMIT), John Potter (UCL Institute of Education), Dave Trotman (Newman University), Becky Parry (Nottingham University), Susan Orr (Arts University, London), Steve Connolly (University of Bedfordshire), Matt Locke (Storythings), Jenny Moon (Freelance) and Jonathan Shaw (Disruptive Media Lab, Coventry University). More info on CEMP People.

CEMP’s mission is to:

• Create a visible and inclusive environment for creative & media practice, pedagogy research and innovation;
• Provide unique and innovative creative and media postgraduate and research courses and continuing professional development for creative & media practitioners / educational practitioners
• Develop CEMP’s profile and reputation as an international hub for media education, media literacy and digital literacy research
• Disseminate creative and media practitioner / pedagogic research and innovation activity and digital learning tools.

Here’s what we’ve been up to since the last dispatch….
 
Marie Curie Fellowship
 
We are delighted to announce that Annamaria Naeg will be joining CEMP as EU-funded Marie Curie Fellow in the summer. Annamaria completed her doctorate at Corvinus University in Hungary, before moving to the University of Nottingham's Ningbo campus in China. While at CEMP, Annamaria will work with Richard Berger on a large media literacy project with a focus on unaccompanied minors in EU refugee camps. Annamaria will also contribute to MERJ and CEMP's Doctorate of Education (Creative & Media) programme.
 
Outputs
 
Mark Readman’s Teaching and Learning On Screen: Mediated Pedagogies was recently published by Palgrave MacMillan.
 
Julian McDougall’s co-authored book (with CEMP Fellow John Potter), Digital Media, Culture and Education: Theorising Third Space Literacies, is in press with the same publisher:

The Routledge International Handbook in Media Literacy Education, co-edited by Julian, is also in press, as is the outcome of the ECREA project on Media and Information Literacy, to which CEMP contributed and have a chapter.

CEMP researchers have had chapters accepted for the International Handbook of Media Literacy Education (Routledge), Perform: Writing for the Screen: Succeeding as a Creative Professional (Focal Press), Discourses of (De)Legitimization: Participatory Culture in Digital Contexts (Routledge) and The Scandinavian Invasion: New Perspectives on Nordic Noir (Pete Lang).
 
Journals
 
MERJ issue 7.2 is now published, with open access content.
 
Issue 8.1 is in press, publishing work first presented at the Media Education Summit in Rome, with a guest editorial from Jad Melki.
See Jad’s keynote talk at the Rome Summit:

Issue 8.2 will be a special issue on Media Learning and Engagement in Early Childhood (Guest Editors: Becky Parry, Fiona Scott, Cary Bazalgette, Ashley Woodfall and Michelle Cannon). See the call for articles.

Issue 17.2-3 of The Journal of Media Practice is now published.
 
Issue 18.1 will publish research first presented at the JMP / MECCSA Practice Symposium in June 2017, to be published in March.
 
Issue 18.2 – the special issue on Disruptive Media (guest edited by CEMP Fellow Jonathan Shaw and colleagues at Coventry University) is under an open review process, to be published in the summer.
 
Issue 18.3 is a ‘standard issue’ (call still open) to be published in December.
 
Events
 
Planning is underway for The Media Education Summit 2017, in Segovia.
In advance of the physical conference in Segovia, CEMP will host the English-speaking online element across May 2017. This part of the conference will take place in a bespoke MOOC, and will directly inform the MES strand of the 'live' event in June, for which David Buckingham will present the keynote.

We were delighted to welcome CEMP Fellow Jonathan Shaw, Director of the Disruptive Media Learning Lab at Coventry University, who gave a talk to Faculty members on Thursday 12 January. Jonathan presented his innovative photography work, which explores the relationships between the still image, time and space, as well as some examples of hybridised teaching and publishing projects, all of which provoked a fascinating conversation.

The first of a series of CEMP / UoA 25 workshops took place in January, a co-publishing scheme to pair first time writers with more experienced mentors.
 
Courses
 
CEMP’s new industry education partnership is with the Daily Telegraph, to start September 2017:

The ninth cohort of the MA in Creative and Media Education recently embarked on their 'Practice' unit. The January included sessions from Trevor Hearing, Kip Jones and Jonathan Shaw, and a TV studio exercise in which we were grateful for the assistance of Bournemouth University BA TV students Tom Stone and Ella Betts.

At the same time John Oliver was running his Corporate Strategy in the Media short course (part of the Build Your Own MA framework) at the Creative Skillset offices in London. This is one of our most popular courses, and part of the Creative Media Leadership pathway. One of the students offers this blog post about the programme.

CEMP’s unique taught doctorate in Creative and Media Education is currently recruiting its fifth cohort. At the last residential, visiting speakers Julian Sefton-Green and Susan Jones and CEMP’s own Mark Readman gave keynotes on their recent publications and Julian worked with cohort 2 students on data collection, reflecting on his own longitudinal ethnography with Sonia Livingstone for ‘The Class’.  Read The Class online:
 
Information on CEMP courses.
 
People
 
Congratulations to Andy Tedd on the award of his doctorate, researching Social Media and New Ways of working at the BBC, and to Peter Westman for the award of his PHD on Digital Ethnography as a Pedagogical Approach. Good luck to Tamsyn Dent for her forthcoming viva. We expect to announce the first crop of new Doctors from our Ed D towards the end of 2017 – no pressure!
 
Richard Berger has been appointed Visiting Fellow at Charles University Prague. Julian McDougall was recognized as Principal Fellow of the Higher Education Academy and both Julian and Isabella were appointed as evaluators on European grant applications (Marie Curie Fellowships and EPSRC).
 
CEMP appointed an Undergraduate Research Assistant, Luisa de Oliveira Moritz) for a project investigating the synergies between Telecentres and Mobiles, with Jacqueline Priego (CEL) and Sara Vannini (University of Washington).
 
Networks
 
CEMP researchers provided PHD examination at University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa), consultancy at University of Ulster (on media practice research) and Saudi Electronic University (programme development), the UK report for a media literacy COST action and data for the European Audiovisual Observatory. Julian gave the keynote speech at the Tavistock Institute’s Serious Play event, showcasing an EU project on serious gaming and has been invited to give a research seminar at Leeds University on media education research and co-present a seminar at UCL with John Potter, both in the Spring.