Research projects

LUSTRE is a project based at Loughborough University that seeks to better understand how AI can help improve the preservation, access to and usability of government archives produced in digital form. The project is funded by a follow-on grant from the Arts and Humanities Research Council (AHRC). 

PANCOPOP was a transnational comparative study of health crisis communication in the context of populist politics, bringing significant advances in knowledge at the intersection of political communication and public health.

Established in 2018 with an award from Loughborough University’s Adventure Research Programme, the Online Civic Culture Centre (O3C) applies cutting-edge concepts and methods from social science and information science to understand the role of social media in shaping our civic culture.

Tourism plays an important yet unacknowledged role in the construction of cultural memory. This ESRC project investigates this role by focusing on Russian tourism to Estonia, Ukraine and Kazakhstan, in a time of geopolitical tensions.

A timely research project examining the role of media in the resurgence of illiberal nationalism, populist leaders, and authoritarian forms of government in Central and Eastern Europe.

Coinciding with the 70th anniversary of the Partition of India, this major project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust, responds to the urgent need to capture cultural memories of Partition in the British Asian community.

Our researchers are developing guidance for effective crisis communication during a potential chemical, biological, nuclear or radiological emergency. Their work forms part of a multi-million pound TOXI-Triage project funded by the European Commission.

Screening Socialism was a three-year project funded by the Leverhulme Trust, which developed the first comparative, transnational study of television under communist rule.