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Profile: Chief Project Ambassador Cary Cooper
We are very proud to introduce Prof. Sir Cary Cooper, the Centre’s Chief Project Ambassador. Prof. Sir Cooper is a Distinguished Professor of Organizational Psychology and Health in Lancaster University’s highly acclaimed Management School, and Chair of the Academy of Social Sciences, and thus has a broad experience of the different disciplines within the Centre’s…
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CASS Director Tony McEnery to be panelist at “Community Question Time – Islam and the Media”
On Thursday 25th April, Tony McEnery will join Dr. Sara Silvestri (City University London), Ahmad Bostan (Unity FM), and Simon Jones (Director of Communications, Policy and Performance at London Borough of Hammersmith and Fulham) at Regent’s Park Mosque to speak on the topic of Islam and the Media. This event is the sixth in a series of Question Time style…
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Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British Press
A new volume is now available from CASS investigators Paul Baker and Tony McEnery, along with Edge Hill University Senior Lecturer and Lancaster University alumnus Costas Gabrielatos: Baker, P., Gabrielatos , C. & McEnery, A. (2013). Discourse Analysis and Media Attitudes: The representation of Islam in the British Press. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. “Is the…
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Opening of ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science
It is with great pleasure that I’m able to issue our first news update from inside the brand new ESRC Centre for Corpus Approaches to Social Science, now open at Lancaster University. People The CASS team has been steadily growing with a series of recent appointments. Joining the In February, Amanda Potts and Vaclav Brezina were appointed…
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