Goldsmiths - University of London

For research projects of individual staff members please see our staff page.

Externally funded research projects currently housed at the Centre for Cultural Studies

• Risk Cultures in China: An Economic Sociology
  This project forms part of the ESRC's World Economy and Finance Programme. Over three years (2006-2009) the project extends the Centre's work internationally, focusing particularly on the forms of social and economic change in contemporary urbanism in Shanghai and Hong Kong.
  
  
• Metadata in the Age of Ubiquitous Media
  The Centre for Cultural Studies is responsible for Project Two in Goldsmiths' Media Research Programme, funded by The Leverhulme Trust. This project will research and design new metadata-rich applications on the internet in China, South Korea and the UK.

Recent research projects

• Broadband: Interactive Media in a Cross-Platform Environment
  (funded by DTI/ESRC)
  In this project, Goldmiths Centre for Cultural Studies joined forces with three London based media companies to produce new forms of television, tailor-made for IPTV (Internet Protocol based TV). CCS researchers focused on how the partners worked together to make the programme; how a study-group of households used or viewed the programmes and IPTV in general; and interviews with technology experts about likely future developments in broadband and related media technologies.
  
  
• Surfaces that See: Subjective Vision and Imagination in Gaze-Based Interaction
  (funded by AHRB Innovation Award)
  
  
• Guaruja - Digital Film