Coventry University Department of Media and Communication
The Department Of Media and Communication is part of Coventry School of Art and Design in Coventry University. It is located within the Ellen Terry Building, which is a £7 million refurbished 1930s cinema in the centre of Coventry, UK.
Its courses include undergraduate degrees in Journalism and Media, Media Production, Photography, Advertising and Media and Media and Communications (Formerly Communication, Culture and Media). It has masters level degrees in Applied Communication, Automotive Journalism, Film and Visual Cultures, Global Journalism, Global Media and Communications, Health Journalism, Digital Media and Culture and Media Production .
Research, Impact and Recognition
The department has a long established research culture in the fields of Media and Communication contributing to debates at local, national and international level. In 2006 it launched a weekly industry talk series called the Coventry Conversations whose long list of speakers includes Jeremy Paxman, Murray Walker, Donal Macintyre, Jeff Jarvis, Paul Abbott, Jeremy Vine, Baroness Valerie Amos and many more.Jon Snow, of Channel 4 News, is a visiting professor in the department. The department also has talk series in Open Media and Photography
The department is underpinned by its "Open Media" approach to education in the fields of Media, Culture, Communication, Photography and the Visual Arts. It was the first practical media department in the UK to start broadcasting lectures to the iTunes U platform and onto the Youtube Edu platform in 2009 and has innovated in teaching learning through open technologies and pedagogies including the development of the worlds first open iPhone application for a photography degree course
In terms of access to research - in July 2009 MC publicly established what was the 1st Green Open Access Mandate for a Humanities Department in the UK and only the 3rd for a Humanties Dept. in the World; it was also the UK's 24th Green Open Access Mandate. This mandates faculty to make academic research output freely available online.
Notable Alumni
Pete Ogden, Television Broadcaster, Producer of X Factor and Big Brother
Gideon Coe (BBC radio presenter. BBC 6 Music)
Kevin de la Noy (film producer, Titanic, Saving Private Ryan, Mission Impossible, Blood Diamond, Batman: The Dark Knight)
Stephen Brookes (disability and equality consultant; former advisor to The Labour Party’s communication department)
Evodokia Thomopoulou (freelance artist and designer)
Simon O Grady (head of Media Studies, Stratford upon Avon College of Further Education)
Sara Noel (Vogue magazine – fashion shoots and syndications co-ordinator)
Line Lonning-Andersen (Artistic Director, Operaen i Kristiansund/ Kristiansund Opera, Norway)
Dominic Breadmore (founder Predacom productions, video and multimedia services)
Laith Al Juneidi (Palestinian film-maker)