Oliver Carter takes questions from the floor
One of the things that happens when you go more fully into research mode is that you end up going to a lot of research meetings and research presentations.
And one of the upsides of the area of Media and Cultural Research is that you tend to get presentations about [...]
Categories: 365
Tagged: Photo, research, University
Meet the music industry
First day back at work today, and I started by gathering together a group of music industry professionals to ask them about what it is they actually do for a living. It’s research.
You see, there’s lots of talk about “the music industry” and what they do and think. But there seems [...]
Categories: 365, Birmingham, Music
Our glamorous campus. Photo courtesy Birmingham City University
Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research
Research Studentship worth £16,680
Popular music and radio in the digital age
The Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research is a rapidly developing centre of research excellence based at Birmingham City University with a community of over thirty academics and research degree [...]
Categories: Music, Radio, Technology, University
Tagged: application, culture, media, research
For the past couple of weeks, I’ve been working on a Music As Culture project with the band UB40.
They’re going to be playing a gig at the Rainbow pub in Digbeth on Tuesday to raise money to help the venue pay for a new soundproof roof over the courtyard, so that they don’t get shut [...]
Categories: Birmingham, Music, University
Tagged: Birmingham, culture, Music, research, UB40
David McInerney, Tom Arnott, Adam Regan and me – after a spectacularly successful DJ gig at the Hare and Hounds, Kings Heath
I often do top 10 or 20 lists (and sometimes even top 100 lists) of music from the year gone by. I generally spend quite a bit of time over this, and then I [...]
Categories: Birmingham, Business, Music, New Zealand, Travel, Whisky
Tagged: 2008, Birmingham, Business, Internet, Music, New Zealand, Personal, research, review, Seminar, Travel, University, web, Whisky
