Glasgow Media Group

The Media Unit is a research based grouping of academics within the sociology department of Glasgow University. Much of its work is published under the name Glasgow Media Group, (aka Glasgow University Media Group). The Group consists mostly of people who have worked in the unit at Glasgow University, plus broadcasters and others who have published with us. The purpose of our work is to promote the development of new methodologies and substantive research in the area of media and communications. The Unit has obtained a series of major academic awards and research contracts. We have also developed close links with other academic groupings such as the MRC, Medical Sociology Unit at Glasgow University and the Centre for Statistics in Medicine and the Department of Psychiatry at Oxford University (in jointly funded projects for the ESRC and Nuffield). We have also presented our work at conferences both in Britain and abroad (for example, Moscow 1996, News and Politics, Brussels 1996, Ethnic Minorities and Media, London 1998, Dispatches from Disaster Zones, in Berlin 1998, for the Bielefeld Society for Risk Analysis, 'Food Scares and Media', Romania 1999,World federation of Mental Health, Humbolt University of Berlin 2000, Swedish Institute of Medicine 2000 'Mental Health and Media', Edinburgh International Television Festival 2000 'Television coverage of developing countries'.