Centre for Discourse and Cultural Studies

Building on a long tradition of cultural studies at the University, scholars grouped in the Centre for Discourse and Cultural Studies carry out research into representations of social and cultural realities.

Areas of particular interest are gender and lived experience, discourses of mental illness, social exclusion, as well as media, religion and popular culture.

The centre is based within the University’s School of Law, Social Sciences and Communications.

Recent highlights

• a vast bank of internationally recognised publications and externally funded projects
• current research into marginalisation and trauma in the media

Impacts

Research at the Centre for Discourse and Cultural Studies seeks to understand who the different people, together with their experiences and cultures, are represented in society.

Research areas

Research into gender and lived experience focuses in particular on:

• masculinity and fatherhood and mental illness
• the experience of organ and tissue transplantation
• experience of psychosis.

Research into social exclusion and trauma has a particular focus on the following areas:

• post-accession migrants to the United Kingdom
• child forced-labourers
• narratives of post-Communist transformation in Central and Eastern Europe.

Media research projects include:

• psychoanalysis and space in American and British cinema
• representations of insanity and trauma in war films
• landscape and British cinema.

More information

Tel: 01902 322 484  |  Email: lssc-enquiries@wlv.ac.uk  |  Web: www.wlv.ac.uk/cdcs