Dear all,
We would like to invite you to our MeCCSA Postgraduate Network event, Challenges and Changes: Women in Journalism and Media, on Wednesday 12th March 2014, at Liverpool John Moores University. The MeCCSA PGN in collaboration with the Liverpool John Moores University, have organised a full-day event (9.30am - 5pm). Topics to be addressed during this event include: overarching issues for women in journalism and the media industry; the influences of women writers in both newspaper and literary journalism in Britain from the 1970s to the present; the continued (mis)representation of women in media content; online abuse of female journalists; the position of women's sports writers; the involvement of women in decision-making structures across European media institutions; diversity in the workplace.
Confirmed speakers and panel members include:
Prof. Karen Ross, Northumbria University;
Prof. Suzanne Franks, City University;
Prof. Deborah Chambers, Newcastle University;
Deirdre O'Neill, Leeds Trinity University;
Dr. Rhianne Jones, BBC;
Dr. Vicky Canning and Dr. Helen Monk, Liverpool John Moores University;
Prof. Haifa Takruri-Rizk, Salford University (and more tbc).
This event is free but we would be grateful if you could register: www.meccsapgn1.eventbrite.com
If you have any questions, please email Charlotte Barlow ([log in to unmask]).
This event is part of a series of MeCCSA PGN Events, including:
> Challenges and Changes in Academic Publishing, 5th March, University of Sussex, www.meccsapgn.eventbrite.co.uk
> Out of Sight: Constructing, Experiencing, Changing Peripheries, 20th March, Goldsmiths, www.meccsapgn2.eventbrite.co.uk
> Challenges and Changes in Public Engagement, 6th June, University of Nottingham.
> MeCCSA Postgraduate Network Annual Conference 2014, 23rd – 24th June, University of Leeds, more details: http://goo.gl/lXVGam
Best wishes,
Charlotte, Emma, Sam, Irene and Rachel
MeCCSA PGN 2013/2014 Committee
http://www.meccsa.org.uk/networks/postgraduate-network/
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