Communication, Cultural and Media Studies
The results of the UK’s 2008 Research Assessment Exercise have placed NTU amongst the leading institutions for research in Media, Communications and Cultural Studies, with 70% of its research being rated as world leading or of international excellence. Research is organised within the Institute for Cultural Analysis, Nottingham (ICAn).
Research within ICAn is organised into six broad clusters:
- Globalisation, Media and Diaspora
- Cultures of the Everyday
- Strategies in Communication (SinC)
- Theory, Politics and Culture
- The Centre for the Study of Inequality, Culture and Difference
The unit is also home to some specialist research groups and a journal:
- Philosophy and Everyday Life Research Group
- Globalisation and east Asian Cultures Research Group
- the journal Radical Orthodoxy: Theology, Philosophy, Politics (co-edited with the University of Nottingham)
Publications' listings of members can be found at the University’s Institutional Repository.
Academic staff
For informal enquires and to discuss PhD research proposals (for studentship applications), please email Professor Louise Cummings or Professor John Tomlinson.


