Communication, Media Studies and Film research

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Research in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities

School of Media, Arts and Humanities

Explore all of our research in the School of Media, Arts and Humanities.
Research programmes and centres

Research impact

Why social media use is such a risk among military personnel

Professor Sarah Maltby’s research on the behaviours and risks of military personnel engaging in digital media has led to the development of new policy guidelines in the British Army..

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The magic of conversation across generations

Professor Margaretta Jolly’s research has not only changed perceptions of the UK Women’s Liberation Movement, it has shown how oral history has the power to connect and to humanise.

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Unexplored aspects of the history of the BBC

Connected Histories of the BBC is a major research project based at the University of Sussex and funded by the Arts and Humanities Research Council.

Its central aim is to transform public access to the BBC’s extraordinary collection of oral history interviews with its own staff. Click to explore the Connected Histories of the BBC website.

Picture credit: Olive Shapley (producer) with Mrs Emerson in the colliery village of Craghead, County Durham BBC North region 01/01/1939 © BBC