University of Leicester Media & Communication Department

General information

The Department of Media and Communication at the University of Leicester is based within the College of Social Sciences and has been at the forefront of media research since 1966, when it was first established as the Centre for Mass Communication Research. Initially, the teaching provision was limited to PhD supervision but in 1978, the UK's Social Science Research Council (now the ESRC) invited CMCR to design and deliver the country's first taught postgraduate degree in media and communications and the MA in Mass Communications was launched, followed by its Distance Learning sibling in 1995.

In 1992, the BSc in Communication, Media and Society was launched and new degrees introduced since are the MSc in Media and Communication Research (2000), MA Globalisation and Communication (2001), MA New Media and Society (2007), Pre-Masters Diploma in Media, Communications and English as a Foreign Language (2008), BA Media and Sociology (2008), MA Media and Public Relations (2010), MA Media, Communication and Advertising (2010), and MA Media, Culture and Society (2014). Most of our postgraduate provision is available either as campus-based learning or as distance learning programmes.

In 2006, CMCR evolved into the Department of Media and Communication as we celebrated 40 years of Media at Leicester but CMCR itself still exists as one of the research groups within the department and continues to draw research students to the department.