Professor Nick Fyfe, Vice Principal for Research and Community Engagement, RGU

Professor Einar Thorsen, Chair of MeCCSA

Dr Jo Royle, Dean of the School of Creative and Cultural Business, RGU

Professor Anandi Ramamurthy, Professor of Media and Culture, Sheffield Hallam University. "Elevating the voices of the marginalised: the Nursing Narratives project".

Chair: Dr Jo Royle, Dean of School of Creative and Cultural Business, Robert Gordon University.

Local and Community Network Roundtable

A discussion of public interest local news in Scotland featuring participants from the Scottish Government’s Public Interest Journalism Working Group.

Chair: James Morrison, RGU. Participants: John Toner, NUJ Scottish organiser; Frank O'Donnell, editor in chief of Aberdeen Press & Journal and formerly editor of The Scotsman, Edinburgh Evening News and Scotland on Sunday; Rhiannon Davis, editor and founder of Glasgow's hyperlocal Govanhill Magazine.

Race, Ethnicity and Postcolonial Network Roundtable

'Overlooked voices in media audience studies'.

The roundtable will largely focus on South Asian women as a media audience and will examine how they have been overlooked in audience studies. Participants: Rittika Dasgupta, Herminder Kaur and Hanna Klien Thomas.

Policy Network Roundtable

On the occasion of the BBC centenary, this session will discuss the BBC and Public Service Media. PSM  have long been viewed as important sources of information that enable a plurality of voices to be heard within democratic societies. However, the long-term future of organisations such as the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) and Channel 4 in the UK appear increasingly in doubt, both due to government plans to cut public subsidies to PSM, as well as the growing challenges that these organisation face in today’s globalised and digitally convergent media industry. In this roundtable, our experts will give lightning talks (no longer than 5 minutes) that look back at the history of organisations such as the BBC and the key challenges facing PSM (both within the UK and Europe), ranging from concerns over funding, decreasing audiences, growing competition to their efforts to ensure their future sustainability and editorial independence from national governments. The roundtable will then invite contributions from the panel speakers and audience about the future trajectory of PSM in the next decade.

Participants will include: Mark Ashmore (LJMU); Tom Chivers (Cardiff); Hossein Derakhshan (LSE); Tony Dowmunt (Goldsmiths); Adrian Hillman (Goldsmiths); Helen Jay (Westminster); Alex Kocic (Napier); Eleonora Mazzoli (LSE); Maike Dinger (Stirling); Giles Moss (Leeds).

Lord Provost Reception, Aberdeen Town House, Broad Street, Aberdeen

Pub Quiz at Six Degrees North, 6 Littlejohn Street, Aberdeen

Dr Miklós Áron Sükösd, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen. 

"Threats to democratic communication in Europe: Who wants to silence voices and why?

Chair: Dr James Morrison, Reader, School of Creative and Cultural Business, RGU.

Network meetings: Please grab a lunch bag and make your way to the following rooms for network meetings

Climate change network N309 

Disability studies network N310

Local and community media network N311

Policy network N317

Postgraduate network N345

Practice network N242

Race, ethnicity and post-colonial network N345

Radio studies network N117

Social movements network N118

Sound Studies Network N246

Women's network N344

Professor Karen Ross, Professor of Gender and Media, Newcastle University. "Menopause madness and the creative crone: participatory research with wise women”.

Chair: Professor Sarah Pedersen, School of Creative and Cultural Business, RGU.

MeCCSA AGM and Awards Ceremony. 

REF reflection and discussion.

Postgraduate Network Roundtable

PGR studies, research and post-doc employment in and after the global pandemic.

Panellists: Shiyu (Sharon) Zheng, Yating Zhang, Silas Udenze, Shiyi Zhang and Vincent Obia. 

Women's Network Roundtable

You are welcome to join a roundtable discussion led by the Women's Network, where you will be invited to reflect on a series of thought provoking questions relating to 1.Journeys into academia; 2. Progression in academia, 3. Juggling life inside and outside academia 4. Useful advice. This will be Led by Chair of the Women's Network (Beth Johnson) and Vice Chair (Barbara Mitra) and will hopefully will provide thought provoking discussion and advice.

Practice-based Network Roundtable

"Funding experiences and funding opportunities". Guest Speaker from the British Academy: Peris Thuo, Early Career Researcher Network Manager.

Conference dinner

Professor Greg Philo, Professor of Communications and Social Change and Director of the Glasgow Media Unit. "From Interpreting the World to Changing It".

Chair: Professor Peter Reid, School of Creative and Cultural Business, RGU.

Closing session