The following is a selection of research funding grants and awards received by the Department of Media and Communications.
2024
2023
- 5Rights Foundation. Digital Futures for Children (DFC). Total: £1,122,190. (Sonia Livingstone)
- British Academy. 'Fissures in Algorithmic Seeing: Bottom-up Resistance to Computer Vision Algorithms'. Total: £8,975. (Gabriel Pereira)
- UK Research and Innovation (UKRI). 'China's International Communication strategy in Latin America (CICLA)'. Total £251,200. (Pablo Morales)
- ESRC Postdoctoral Fellowship. 'Mobile lovers: Affordances, spaces, and narrativisation among dating app users in Berlin'. Total £149,392. (Fabian Broeker)
- Leverhulme Trust. Research Project Grants Scheme. 'Menopause in UK public discourse: visibility, content, factors and implications' Total: £248,924.(Shani Orgad)
- Department for Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS). 'Evaluation of the effectiveness of the Common Sense Digital Citizenship Curriculum'. Total: £249,924. (Shakuntala Banaji)
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research Investment Fund. Listening to Self-Care Stories In The Current Crises. Total: £18,799. (Shani Orgad)
- Open Society Institute (OSF). Justice, Equity and Technology Table. Total: £215,808. .
2022
- Economic Security Project. ''. Total: $60,000 (£39,418).
- Inclusive Education Action Plan (ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ IEAP) Fellowships focussed on Decolonising. Total: £5,286. (Pablo Morales & Suzanne Harris)
- ESRC Post-Doctoral fellowship. 'Stitch The Dress and The Web: Young Women, Fashion And Digital Economies In Yaounde, Cameroon'. Total: £140,720. (Ewa Majczak)
- UKRI (ESRC/AHRC). CHANSE. REMEDIS: REthinking MEdia literacy and DIgital Skills in Europe. Total: £289.358. (Ellen Helsper)
- UKRI (ESRC/AHRC). CHANSE. Platforming Families (PlatFAMs) Tracing digital transformations in everyday life across generations. Total: £364,946. (Sonia Livingstone)
- John D. and Catherine T. MacArthur Foundation. Justice, Equity, And Technology Project. Total: £220,007. .
2021
- Office of Communications. 'Evidence review on diversity in public service diversity'. (Lee Edwards)
- Open Doors Internationals Inc. 'Disinformation, hate speech, and incitement to discrimination and violence in India: the role of technology, policy and politics'. Total: £43,063. (Shakuntala Banaji)
- European Commission. 'euConsent'. Total: £48,468. (Sonia Livingstone)
- Leverhulme Trust. 'Postcolonial Publics and Digital Culture in Southern Africa'. Total: £52,627. (Wendy Willems)
- Medical Research Council (MRC). 'Adolescent Mental Health and Development in the Digital World'. Total: £216,875. (Sonia Livingstone)
- UKRI (ESRC/AHRC). 'CHANSE'. (Alison Powell)
- UKRI (ESRC/AHRC). 'CHANSE REMEDIS'. (Ellen Helsper)
- UKRI (ESRC/AHRC). '#DIGRights@EUCities'. (Myria Georgiou)
- Google News Initiative. 'Journalism AI'. Total: £200,000. (Charlie Beckett)
- Fundación Reina Sofia. 'Mapping socio-digital inequalities in education and employment in Madrid – DiSTO Spain'. Total: €13,100. (Ellen Helsper). Co-Investigators: Stefano de Marco (Universidad de Salamanca), Guillaume Dumont (EM-Lyon), Jose Manuel Robles Morales and Daniel Sorando (Complutense de Madrid).
2020
- Nuffield Foundation. Ada Lovelace Institute. Total: £195,000. (Alison Powell)
- EPSRC. ''. Total: £1,165. (Alison Powell)
- HEFCE. 'Interrogating (Gendered) Information Ecosystems in Climate Change Adaptation in rural Ghana and Kenya: a pilot field study'. Total: £2,351. (Lee Edwards)
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Research Committee Seed Fund. 'The Infrastructural Power of Platform Companies'. (Jean-Christophe Plantin)
- European Commission. ')'. Total: £142,538. (Sonia Livingstone)
- European Commission. 'Youth Skills (ySKILLS)'. Total: £413,278. (Sonia Livingstone, Ellen Helsper and Myria Georgiou)
- Medical Research Council (MRC). 'Adolescence, Mental Health and the Developing Mind'. Total: £8,738. (Sonia Livingstone)
- Google News Initiative. 'Journalism AI'. Total: £178,000. (Charlie Beckett)
- Insight Development Grant, Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. 'HIV and the network society: developing a methodological toolkit for marginalized internet histories'. Total: $69,119 CAD. (Dylan Mulvin, co-investigator with Dr Cait McKinney)
2019
- WhatsApp Inc. 'WhatsApp Vigilantes? An exploration of citizen reception and construction of WhatsApp messages triggering mob violence in India'. Total: £34,480. ()
- Kuwait Foundation For The Advancement Of Sciences. 'Evaluating Digital Skills and Tangible Outcomes in Kuwait'. Total: £74,998. (Ellen Helsper)
- British Academy. 'The Future of National News Agencies in Europe'. Total: £9,978 ()
- . 'Improving Deliberation, Improving Copyright'. Total: £93,238.59.
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Knowledge Exchange and Impact (KEI) Fund. 'Justice, Equity, and Technology Table'. Total: £97,131. Period: 1/20-7/21.
- EPSRC. 'Pivotal Strategy: Making Ethics Intelligent and Negotiable'. Total: £2,500. (Alison Powell)
- Polish National Agency for Academic Exchange. ' Total: £37,710. (Eva Polonska-Kimunguyi)
- Google News Initiative. 'Journalism AI'. Total: £150,000. (Charlie Beckett)
2018
- ESRC. 'Total: £36,227. ()
- Projects by If. 'Approaches to transparency and accountability in federated learning -current practices and future possibilities'. Total: £20,000 (Alison Powell)
- Wellcome Trust. 'STEM Inside: Broadening Participation through Transdisciplinary Youth Development Programs Leveraging Technology, Arts, Design, and the Science'. Total: £86,132 (Sam Mejias)
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Knowledge Exchange and Impact (KEI) Fund. 'The Future of National News Agencies in Europe'. Total: £84,000. ()
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). 'Outcomes and Effectiveness for Children's Helplines'. Total: £19,540. ()
- Information Commissioner’s Office (ICO). 'Children's data and privacy online'. Total budget: £99,820. ()
- Open Society Foundation. 'Understanding Automated Decisions: Using design research to investigate communication of personal data use within automated decision making contexts'. Total: £69,940. ()
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Spanish Ministry of Science and Innovation. Convocatoria proyectos I+D "Retos de la sociedad". 'Digital Inequality and job opportunities: studying online platforms for job searches – DiSTO Spain'. Total: €71,000. (Ellen Helsper). Co-Investigators: Dr Stefano De Marco (Salamanca University), Guillaume Dumont (EM-Lyon), and Jose Luis Martinez (Autonoma de Madrid).
2017
- European Commission. Values and Ethics in Innovation for Responsible Technology in Europe. Ongoing. (Alison Powell)
- Open Society Foundations, 'Justice, Equity, and Technology Project'. Total: £63,562. Period: 1/2017-7/2018.
- European Research Council. 'Heteropolitics: Refiguring the Common and the Political Period'. Total ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ budget: €43,594. ()
- Leverhulme Trust International Fellowship. 'Communicating the Digital City'. Total budget: £20,900. ()
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Knowledge Exchange and Impact (KEI) Fund. ''. Total budget: £70,000. ()
- Rockefellar Foundation. 'Resilient communities, resilient cities? Digital makings of the city of refuge'. Total budget: £160,000. ()
- The Oxford Noble Foundation. 'We the People': Political discourses of 'us' and 'them' - Poland in a comparative perspective. Total budget: £30,000. ()
- European Commission. Makerspeaces in the early years: Enhancing digital literacy and creativity. Total budget: £102,628. (
- European Commission. Identity Management on Social Media by Diasporic LGBTQs. Total budget: £289,334.84. ()
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Higher Education Innovation Fund (HEIF). HEIF: ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Commission on Truth, Trust and Technology. ()
2016
- The Royal Society Newton International Fellowship. 'Alevi Television and the Making of Transnational Alevi Identity'. Total Budget: £90,000. Period: 10/2016 - 09/2018. ()
- The Oxford Noble Foundation. 'The Future of Public Service Broadcasting: Poland in Comparative Perspective'. Total Budget: £50,000. Period: 10/2016 - 09/2017. ()
- European Commission Horizon 2020 Marie-Curie European Individul Fellowship. Lukasz Szulc - 'Social Media and Identity from the Perspective of Diasporic LGBTQs'. Total budget: £134,796. Period: 10/2016 - 09/2018. ()
- International Inequalities Institute Research Innovation Fund. ‘Network effects in digital exclusion: Social contextual explanations of the links between social and digital inequalities.’ Total Budget £9,945. Period: 1/8/2016 – 1/8/2016. ()
- Prince’s Trust. ‘Socio-Digital Skills and Wellbeing of Disadvantaged Young people’. Total Budget £33,809. Period: 4/7/2016 – 9/12/2016 ()
- New America. 'Our Data Bodies'. Total: £37,864. Period: 10/2016-03/2019.
2015
- New America. 'Digital Privacy and Data Literacy'. Total Budget: £63,709. Period: 09/2015-03/2017.
- European Commission. ''. Total Budget: £259,100. Period: 10/2015 - 09/2018 ()
- UNICEF. ''. Total Budget: £210,373. Period 08/2015 - 03/2017 ()
- UNICEF Office of Research. ''. Total Budget: €25,000. Period: 2015 ()
- Australian Research Council. ''. Total Budget: £43,228; Period: 01/2015 - 12/2017 ()
- The Research Council of Norway. 'MediAfrica: New media practices in a changing Africa'. Total Budget: £21,913. Period: 06/2015 - 05/2018 ()
- Open Society Foundation. 'Data, Democracy and Political Communication'. Total Budget: £11,954. Period: 06/2015 - 09/2015 ()
- The University of Chicago. 'The Price of Conection'. Total Budget: £62,499. Period: 09/2015 - 08/2017. ()
2014
- Open Laws. European Commission. 'DG Justice'. Total budget: €104,785; Period: 04/2014 - 03/2016 ()
- Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). ‘You Can’t Move History. You Can Secure the Future’: Engaging Youth in Cultural Heritage. Total Budget: £25,132. Period 10/2014 - 07/2015 (Pollyanna Ruiz).
- MacArthur Foundation. ''. For the blog see: . Part of the Connected Learning Research Network. Total Budget: $4.9m. Amount: awarded to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳: $493,000. 2014-17. ()
- MacArthur Foundation. 'Connected Learning'. Total Budget: £104,554; Period: 04/2014 - 03/2017 ()
- European Commission. ' '. Total Budget: 500,000 Euros; (25,000 to Department of Media and Communications). Period; 2014-16. ( & )
- ESRC Future Research Leader grant. '', to be taken up at the University of Cambridge; period 2014-2017 (Ella McPherson)
- Microsoft Corporation. '. Total Budget: £304,757; 05/2014 - 04/2017 ()
- Creative Exchange. 'Indie Data'. Total Budget: £3,728; Period: 10/2014 - 12/2014 ()
- European Commission; Joint Research Centre (Milan). ''. PI for UK part of a 7-country study. Total Budget to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳: €15,000. Period: 2014-15. ()
- European NGO Alliance for Child Safety Online (eNACSO). ''. Total Budget: €15,000. Period 2014-15. ()
- Department for International Development (DfID). . ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ is a consortium member of this Overseas Development Institute (ODI) project. Total Budget: £4.6 million. Period 2014-23 ()
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Seed Fund. 'Production, Representation and Reception of Social Movement Frames'. Total Budget: £8,670.00. Period: 07/2014 - 07/2015 ()
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Seed Fund. The Mediatization of Government. Total Budget: £16,946. Period: 01/03/2014 - 28/02/2015 ( and )
2013
- Open Society Foundation. Connecting Scholars and Civil Society: Building an International Media Policy Network. Total budget: £29,360; Period 01/11/13 - 31/10/14 ()
- European Commission: EINS. STRUCTNET: Algebraic structures of Network. Total budget: 10,043 Euro; period 01/10/2013 - 30/09/14 ()
- European Commission FP7 Cooperation: COMPARE. Interdisciplinary explorations of self-organisation in practice. Budget of 1,846 Euro; period 10/13 - 09/14 ()
- John Fell Fund, University of Oxford:. From digital skills to tangible outcomes: improving measures and models of internet use. Total budget £27,885; period 08/13 - 03/14 ()
- UNICEF Office of Research. 'Recommendations for developing UNICEF's global research strategy on children’s rights in a digital age'. Total Budget: €25,000. Period: 2013. ()
- European Commission FP7 People Marie-Curie: Upload. Budget of 177,910 Euro; period 03/13 - 02/15 ()
- Marie Curie Inter-European Fellowship, (UPLOAD) Upload. Urban Politics of London Youngsters Analyzed Digitally. Total budget £231,283; period 2013-2015 (Koen Leurs)
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Seed Fund. Community through digital connectivity? Total budget: £23,805.00; period 10/2013 - 09/2014 ( and )
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Seed Fund. Beyond 'Desperate Housewives'. Total budget: £17,589; period 01/07/2013 - 31/03/2014 ()
2012
- European Commission FP7 People Marie-Curie: Mesaporus. Budget of 154,840 Euro; period 10/12 - 09/14 ()
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): Development Journalism Laboratory (Knowledge Exchange Opportunities). Budget of £45,389; period 10/12 -10/13 ()
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC): '. Total Budget: £73,556; Period 09/12 - 8/13 ()
- Open Society Foundation. Media and Recent Political Changes in Some Arab Countries. Budget of £62,300; period 04/12 -03/13 ()
2011
- European Commission FP7 Cooperation: EU Kids Online III. Budget of 500K euros; period 12/11 - 11/14 ()
- European Commission (Information Society and Media Directorate-General): partnership in European Network of Excellence on Internet Science. ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Budget of 100,000 Euro; period 12/2011 - 06/2014 ( and )
- Open Society Foundation: Arab Revolutions: Media Revolutions. Budget of £12,608; period 12/2011 - 03/12 ()
- Open Society Foundation: Facilitating Academic and Civil Society Engagement in Media Policy Debates. Budget of £31,000; period 08/11 - 02/13 ()
- UC Humanities Research Institute: Methodologies for Researching Connected Learning. Budget of £12,984 period 07/11 - 06/12 ()
- UC Humanities Research Institute: Distributed Research Learning Network. Budget of £18,588; period 06/11 - 11/11 ()
- The MacArthur Foundation: The Class, part of the Connected Learning Research Network, budget of $280,000 (main award, plus supplementary award of $30,000 and award for seminar organisation of $22,000; period 01/11-12/14 ()
- National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children (NSPCC). . Co-I with Institute of Education, Kings College London and ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳. Total Budget: £25,000. Period 2011. ()
2010
- International Knowledge Management - Emergent, EUR 5m, period 2007-2012 (Steering Committee member) European Commission (7th Framework Programme): 'Socio-Economic Impact Assessment for Research Projects' (), budget of EUR 151,070, period: 01/05/2010 - 30/04/2012 (Paolo Dini and )
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ HEIF4 Fund. ''. Total Budget: £19,739. Period 2010-11. ()
- The Leverhulme Trust. ' Mediated Humanitarian Knowledge; Audiences' Reactions and Moral Actions', budget £232,210; period: 1/10/2010 - 1/10/2013 (B. Seu and ).
- Hellenic Alumni Association. Sponsorship to support PhD Scholarship in 'International Journalism'. Total Budget: £30,000. ()
2009
- European Commission (7th Framework Programme): : Social platform on research for families and family policy, budget of 1,546,740 Euros to the consortium, including 54,302 Euros to ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳; period: 10/2009 - 04/2011 ()
- European Research Council, Advanced Investigator Grants: ' Media and Democracy in Central and Eastern Europe: Qualities of Media, Qualities of Democracy', budget of EUR 2,06 million, period 1/10/09-30/9/13 (J.Zielonka and )
- US Conference Board /Telefonica Foundation Funding, The Linked World: The long tail of digital exclusion. Total Budget $44.000, period 09/2009 - 04/2010 ()
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Seed Fund. Local Citizen Participation in Local Government. Budget: £4,000.00. Period: June 2009 - June 2010. (L.Manyozo).
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Seed Fund. Riding on eMule: A Case Study on the File Sharing Community in China. Budget: £3,750.00. Period: January - April 2009. ()
2008
- European Commission: Media and Citizenship. Transnational Television Cultures Reshaping Political Identities in the European Union, budget 327,117 euro; period: 01/04/2008 - 30/03/2011 ( European Consortium leader: C.Slade)
- European Commission (7th Framework Programme). 'Connecting Socio-Economic Research on the Dynamics of the Knowledge Society in the European Union and Latin American and Caribbean Countries' (EULAKS), EUR 95,791, period: 1/02/2008-31/01/2011 (Paolo Dini)
- Dutch Research Council for the Humanities. 'Journalism and Cosmopolitanism' with Utrecht University. Total Budget: £30,000. Period 2008-2010. ()
2007
- ESRC Seminar Series. ' The Educational and Social Impact of New Technologies on Young People in Britain', budget of £17K; period: 01/10/2007-30/9/2009, with John Coleman, Department of Education, University of Oxford. ()
- DfES/Becta. 'DfES - Children Go Online - Literature Review', period :02-03/07 ()
2006
- Research Council of Norway. '' (1 of 20 networked researchers from Nordic countries, UK and USA), 4.4 million NOK; period: 2006-2009 ()
- European Commission. "Open Philosophies for Associative Autopoietic Digital Ecosystems" (), EUR 1,392,759, period: 01/06/2006-31/08/2010 (Paolo Dini, )
- Great Britain Sasakawa Foundation. "Diasporic Daughters", budget of £2,500; period: 01/06/2006-30/08/2006 ()
- Nuffield Foundation. "Diasporic Daughters", budget of £9,540; period: 01/01/2006-30/06/2006 ()
- EC (Safer Internet Plus programme). '', budget of 0.5m Euro, period: 26/06/2006-25/06/2009. ( and )
- RCPO/EPSRC. IDEAS Factory, Sand-Pit Director, 'Countering Terrorisim in Public Places', budget of £20,000, period: 03/08/2006-31/12/2006 ()
- USC Annenberg Center for Communication. Senior visiting fellowship ($15,000), period: 01/10/2006- 31/01/2007 ()
- European Commission (6th Framework Programme). 'Biologically-Inspired Autonomic Networks and Services' (BIONETS), EUR 461,248; period: 01/01/2006-28/02/2010 (Paolo Dini)
- ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Seed Fund. The Survivor in Contemporary Media and Public Disclosure. Budget of £13,730.00. Period: June 2006 - August 2007. ()
2005
- OFCOM. Updating R18 Literature Review, period: 11/05-02/06 ()
- Technical University of Denmark. 'Telecom Demand', period: 1/5/05-31/12/05 ()
- International Development Research Centre (IDRC Canada). Telecom Demand: Measures for Improving Affordability with LIRNE.net, £25,000, period: 01/01/2005 - 31/12/2005 ()
- ICSTIS, Vodafone, OFCOM, BT, BBC, BBFC, AOL. ICSTIS - Harm and Offence Literature Review, period: 03/05-12/05 ()
- OFCOM. UK Children Go Online Emerging Opportunities and Danger, period 20/01/05-30/04/05 ()
- British Academy Small Research Grant. When News Became New, budget of £4,244; period: 01/01/2005-15/2005 ()
2004
- Ofcom. The Role of Advertising on Children's Food Choice: A Literature Review, £3,500; period: 01/02/2004- 30/04/ 2004 ()
- Nuffield Foundation. 'Political Advertising in Comparative Perspective', budget of £5,108, period 1/03/2004-31/12/2004 ()
- European Commission. (IREN - International Radio Research Network) budget of £70,203; period: 01/03/2004 to 31/08/2006 (P. Lewis), budget of £5,108; period: 01/03/2004-31/12/2004 ()
- Electronic Data Systems (EDS) Limited. 'Innovation Research Programme', period: 1/12/04-30/11/09 ()
- Ofcom. The Relation between Advertising and Children's Food Choice: Analysis of Survey Data, £3,100, period: 01/06/2004-30/07/2004 ()
- Calouste Gulbenkian Foundation. 'Social Tapestries', budget of £10,000; period: 01/05/2004-31/03/2005 ( and )
- Ofcom. Media Literacy: A review of the literature on UK adults, £5,000; period: 01/10/2004-31/12/2004 ()
2003
- ESRC (with co-funding from AOL, BSC, ITC, Citizens Online): ' UK Children Go Online', budget of £261,000, period 25/04/2003 - 24/04/2005 ()
- Department of Trade and Industry, Office of Science and Technology. Cyber Trust and Crime Prevention Project, Foresight Programme, £28,600, period 01/04/2003-30/06/2004 ()
- Department of Trade & Industry. 'Urban Tapestries', budget of £9,987, period: 01/05/2003-31/01/2004 ( and )
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 'Media Consumption and the Future of Public Connection', budget of £135,000, period: 01/10/2003 - 31/03/2006 ( and )
- European Commission. 'Marie Curie Fellowships - FUTURUM', period: 1/10/03-30/09/05 ()
- European Commission. 'Digital Business Ecosystems(DBE)', budget of £404,000, period: 01/11/2003 - 31/1/2007 (Paolo Dini)
- European Commission. 'New Media and Everyday Life in Europe', period: 1/1/03-31/12/05 ()
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 'ICT & Transformative Social Change', period: 1/01/03-31/03/04 ()
2002
- University of Freiburg. 'Digital Dialogues', period: 01/01/02-03/12/03 (Peter Lewis)
- Department for International Development. 'Evaluation of Alternative Community Media'; budget of £24,900; period 06/02/2002-30/06/2002 (D. Slater & Peter Lewis)
- Broadcasting Standards Commission. Media: Literacy: Literature Review , budget of £3,000; period: 01/04/2002-30/06/2002 ()
- Cabinet Office: 'Electronic Networking'; budget of £29,345; period: 10/06/2002-09/08/2002 ()
- European Commission. 'Growth Nodes in Knowledge Based Europe'; budget of £40,605; period: 01/07/2002-30/06/2003 ()
2001
- University of Brighton. 'Radio Teaching and Learning'; budget of £4,821; period: 01/01/2001-31/12/2001 (Peter Lewis)
- Department for International Development. 'e-commerce for Developing Countries'; budget of £195,683; period: 01/01/2001-31/12/2002 ()
- University of Sussex. 'Digital Revolution'; budget of £35,000; period: 01/03/2001-31/12/2003 ()
- Commonwealth Secretariat. 'Information Technology'; budget of £4,256; period: 01/03/2001-31/03/2001 ()
- National Children's Bureau. 'Children and the Internet', budget of £5,000; period: 15/11/2001-28/02/2002 ()
1995-2000
- European Commission. European Media ()'; budget of £805,103; period: 01/05/2000-30/04/2003 ()
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 'The Radio Research Project', period: 01/03/99-28/02/02 (Peter Lewis)
- Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC). 'Increasing Public Understanding of Radio Medium'; budget of £93,111; period: 01/03/1999-28/02/2002 (Peter Lewis)
- British Telecom. 'Families and the Internet', budget of £108,650; period: 01/09/1999-30/06/2001 ()
- European Commission. 'Educational Pathways for Adult Learners'; budget of £6,672; period: 01/09/1998-31/08/1999 ()
- European Commission. 'ESF: 'European Comparative Study': period: 01/01/97-31/12/00 ()
Multi-funded Projects:
- 'A 12-Nation European Comparison of Children’s Changing Media Environment'. Total Budget: £84,600; Period: 1997-2000. ()
- Funders: European Commission (£35.6k); European Science Foundation (£19k); European Parliament (£30k)
- 'Children, Young People and the Changing Media Environment'. Total Budget: £300k; Period 1995-1999. ()
- Funders: BBC (£90k); Leverhulme Trust (£66.3k); British Telecoms plc(£60k); Advertising Association (£7k); Broadcasting Standards Commission (£20k); Yorkshire/Tyne-Tees/ITVA (£25k); Independent Television Commission (£32k)
Honours
Prizes
- and Andreas Hepp (University of Bremen) were awarded the German Communication Association (DGPuK) Theory Prize for their co-authored book (2017).
- and were awarded the IAMCR and Urban Communication Foundation 2016 Urban Communication Research Grant for their project (2016).
- 's book was awarded Outstanding Book of the Year by the Interntional Communication Association - ICA (2015).
- was awarded the European Journal of Communication Top Academic Article of 2012 for his article entitled: (2013).
- 's article was awarded Outstanding Paper of the Year in the ICA Journalism Studies Division (2012).
- was awarded the Family Online Safety Institute Award for Outstanding Achievement (2012).
- 's article was awarded Top Paper of the Year in the ICA Journalism Studies Division (2010).
Special Appointments
- was appointed specialist adviser to the House of Lords Communications Committee inquiry into children and the internet (2016). .
- was appointed as special adviser on broadcasting to the House of Commons select committee for culture, media and sport (2015). .
- was appointed Interim Deputy Director and Provost of ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ (2015-16).
- and were appointed as Commissioners for the Gender, Media and Culture section of the ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Commission on Gender, Inequality and Power (2015). .