Results of this research will be provided to all parts of the University so it can decide what changes are needed. In their words: “Your views are important to us, so please complete this questionnaire which should take about 15 minutes. As a thank you for your time you can enter our prize draw to win one of these great prizes:

2 prizes of a Flip Video Camcorder
4 prizes of £25 in High Street Vouchers

Your individual responses will remain anonymous and all information will be treated in the strictest confidence and in accordance with the Data Protection Act 1998.”

Head to the survey now and win something.

You can come to all of the conference, or just duck in for the bits you can in between classes. The line up is below (times are approximate).

1pm Julia Kennedy, University College Falmouth
WeTube, TheyTube: Mapping Imagined Communities and the ‘Maddie Phenomenon’ in User Generated Content

2pm Rob Jewitt, University of Sunderland
Panic in the streets of Mumbai: Twitter, mobile phones and participatory action

2.30pm Helen Kennedy, UWE Bristol
‘Brace Yourself!’ – the unbearable lightness of Wii-being

3.30pm BREAK

4pm Neil Perryman, University of Sunderland
Doctor Who and the Convergence of Media

4.30pm John Paul Green, University of Sunderland
The ‘Relative’ Dimensions: Representing the Family Within and Without Doctor Who

5pm Niall Richardson, University of Sussex
How do I Look?  Gay male body image in online communities

And come and join us for drinks at 6pm, as the Centre for Research in Media & Cultural Studies celebrates its superb Research Assessment Exercise (RAE), where the centre here at Sunderland was rated joint 11th in the UK for research.