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Research Grants, Awards, Honours and Prizes

Research in the Department of Media and Communications examines how changes in media and communications shape, and are shaped by, social, cultural, political, economic, and historical developments.

The following is a selection of research funding grants and awards received by the Department of Media and Communications.

Funding grants and awards

2024

  • BRITISH ACADEMY/LEVERHULME TRUST. 

    Social Media Influences in West Africa: Women, Work and Redistribution in Digital Economy. Total: £9,500. (Ewa Majczak)

  • ÐÓ°ÉÂÛ̳ Urgency Grant. Citizen-Refugeeness: Internal Displacement and Digital Order in Greece's Storm Daniel. Total: £9,504. ()

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 

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

2018

2017

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)

Prizes, Honours, Special Appointments

Honours

  • Robin Mansell was awarded the Outstanding Alumni Award for Academic Achievement from Simon Fraser University (2021). More .

  • Robin Mansell was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Fribourg, Switzerland (2020).  .
  • Lilie Chouliaraki was made an ICA Fellow by the International Communication Association (ICA), in recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication (2020). .
  • Robin Mansell received the 2020 C. Edwin Baker Award for the Advancement of Scholarship on Media, Markets and Democracy (2020). .
  •  received an award for Distinguished Contribution to Social Psychology from the British Psychological Society (2020). .
  • Sarah Banet-Weiser was made an ICA Fellow by the International Communication Association (ICA), in recognition of distinguished scholarly contributions to the broad field of communication (2019). .
  •  was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the Univeristy of Copenhagen, Denmark (2018). .
  • Robin Mansell was awarded the Distinguished Contribution Award, International Association for Media and Communications Research (IAMCR) (2017). .
  •  was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of the Basque Country (2017). .
  •  was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from Södertörn University, Sweden (2015). .
  •  was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Panthéon-Assas (Paris II), France (2015). .
  •  was awarded an Honorary Doctorate from the University of Montreal, Canada (2014).
  •  was awarded an OBE (Order of the British Empire) for services to children and child internet safety (2014).

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). .