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The MeCCSA Executive Committee has sought clarification about the place of our field in the Learning and Teaching Support Network, as we were a little concerned at overlaps in responsibility between initially two, and latterly three,Centres. The following letter on behalf of the Centres, from the Director of C-SAP at Birmingham, helps clarify the position.Members may also wish to know that the Committee is seeking support from the Network on behalf of the field for teaching and learning initiatives. -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Professor Peter Golding MeCCSA Dept of Social Sciences Loughborough University Loughborough Leics LE11 3TU 27 February 2002 Dear Peter Golding, Thank you for your letter of 20 February requesting clarification of LTSN’s mapping of subjects. Initially, LTSN set up two subject centres covering the following subjects: ADC at Brighton University covering Art, Design and Communication (the latter includes Media) C-SAP at Birmingham University covering Sociology, Anthropology and Politics. These two subject centres realised that cultural studies had been left off the map and were successful in a joint bid for project funding from the LTSN Executive to extend their services to Cultural Studies. The English Subject Centre has now joined in, so the three subject centres are collaborating on Cultural Studies. This cultural studies project will be carried out by two specially appointed academic coordinators, Angela Devas at ADC, and someone (part time) to be appointed on 8 March at C-SAP. Siobham Holland is representing English. The project has three elements: 1. Establishing a network of departmental contacts in cultural studies 2. Developing learning and teaching resources on cultural studies on our websites 3. Project funding. The three subject centres are meeting on 11 March to establish divisions of labour and lines of communication regarding the first two above. I hope this clarifies the situation. I would be grateful if you would circulate this information to your members. I would like to send you a further update in due course. Yours sincerely, Sue Wright Director of C-SAP