MeCCSA 2025

MeCCSA 2025 Conference Programme

*Please note this is the draft programme and is subject to change – draft Wednesday 6th August

4th September 2025
DAY 1

09:30 – 10:30                    Pre-Conference Meeting

Location: Various – Network groups’ Meeting as pre-conference agenda

09:30 – 10:30 Pre-Conference Meeting – Women’s Network Group 

Location: CRL_1/06 – Special request by Women’s Network group for a meeting as pre-conference agenda.  (If other network groups would like a similar meeting, please email: meccsa2025@napier.ac.uk )  

09:30 – 11:00                    Registration

Location: Entrance Foyer

10:30 – 11:00                   Teas and Coffees

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

11:00 – 11:20                    Session 1: Welcome and opening session

Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre

Professor Sue Rigby, Principal, Edinburgh Napier University

Professor Einar Thorsen, Chair of MeCCSA

Dr Diane Maclean, Dean of the School of Arts and Creative Industries, ENU

 

Lighting of Lamp

11:20 – 12:15                    Session 2: Keynote 1

Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre

Dr Gholam Khiabany: 
State of Citizenship and Identity 
Reader in Media and Communications at Goldsmiths, University of London

Chair: Prof G D Jayalakshmi, Director, Centre for Creative Practice, SACI, ENU (?)

12:15 – 13:00                   Lunch

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

13:00 – 14:30                    Session 3: Presentations

  1. Room Number CRL_1/06 – The Gendered Voice
  2. Room Number CRL_1/10 –  Space and Identity
  3. Room Number CRL_2/05 – Exploring personal, regional, national and international cultural identity
  4. Room Number CRL_2/10 – Modern Media for 21st century educational pedagogy
  5. Room Number CRL_3/03 – Environmental Degradation and Climate Catastrophe
  6. Room Number CRL_3/11 – Digital Technologies and Culture
  7. Room Number CRL_1/115 – Oral and other Histories
  8. Room Number CRL_1/116 – Use of words and graphics in finding identity 
  9. Room Number CRL_1/117 – Brand Identity – help or hindrance? 
  10. Room Number CRL_1/118 – Panel: Presentation: Local journalism in transition: community, gaps, and challenges
  11. Room Number CRL_1/119 – Healthcare for Vulnerable People
  12. Room Number CRL_1/120 – Audience Construction, Fandom and Interaction

 

14:40 – 15:40                    Session 4: REF Plenary

Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre

Greg Walker, Chair Main REF Panel D
Regius Professor of Rhetoric and English Literature at the University of Edinburgh

Prof. Einar Thorsen, Chair MeCCSA 

15:40 – 16:10                   Teas and Coffees

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

16:10 – 17:40                    Session 5: Presentations

Location: Various

  1. Room Number CRL_1/06 – Justice for Palestine
  2. Room Number CRL_1/10 – Gender and Identity 1
  3. Room Number CRL_2/05 – Panel: Presentation: Audiences, Marginality, and Community
  4. Room Number CRL_2/10 – Nation-building: Policy and practice
  5. Room Number CRL_3/03 – Migrants’ construction of the self: Identity and belonging
  6. Room Number CRL_3/11 – Climate change and environmental activism 
  7. Room Number CRL_1/115 – Uses of Cyberspace: Cyberspace Use in expressions of identity
  8. Room Number CRL_1/116 – Uses of Social Media
  9. Room Number CRL_1/117 – Identity Construction through Archive and Memory
  10. Room Number CRL_1/118 – Representations of identity and belonging in Film and TV
  11. Room Number CRL_1/119 – Educational Pedagogy (2 papers)
  12. Room Number CRL_1/120 – Methodological considerations in Media Research

17:45 – 18:45                  Reception Drinks with Exhibition Opening

20:30 for 21:00               Pub Quiz: Voodoo Rooms – Location

5th September 2025
DAY 2

09:00 – 09:30 Day Registration 

Location: Entrance Foyer  

09:30 – 11:00                    Session 6: Presentations

Location: Various

  1. Room Number CRL_1/06 – Rethinking clothes and hair
  2. Room Number CRL_1/10 – Gender and Identity 2
  3. Room Number CRL_2/05 – Place and identity
  4. Room Number CRL_2/10 – Media and regulation: A treacherous navigation 
  5. Room Number CRL_3/03 – The Making of a Nation: National Identity Pre-occupations
  6. Room Number CRL_3/11 – Data Mining
  7. Room Number CRL_1/115 – AI: The new tool on the block
  8. Room Number CRL_1/116 – Revisitng History
  9. Room Number CRL_1/117 – Sound and Music affect and influence society: Therefore they matter!
  10. Room Number CRL_1/118 – Brand Identity affecting Political Decision making
  11. Room Number CRL_1/119 – Explorations in traditional media
  12. Room Number CRL_1/120 – Auto-ethnography: A powerful tool in identity exploration

11:00 – 11:30                   Teas and Coffees

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

1130 – 12:30                      Session 7: Keynote 2

Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre

Dr Mallika Sarabhai, Padma Bhushan 
Title: Says who? 
Director and Founder, Darpana Academy of Performing Arts, Ahmedabad, India 
Potential Chair: Emeritus Prof. Bashabi Fraser, Chair Scottish Centre for Tagore Studies 

12:30 – 13:30                   Lunch with Network Group Meetings

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

13:30 – 15:00                    Session 8: Presentations

Location: Various

  1. Room Number CRL_1/06 – Panel Presentation: Action Heroines in the 21st Century: Sisters in Arms
  2. Room Number CRL_1/10 – Panel Presentation: Journalism in ruins: Dependency, power and resistance
  3. Room Number CRL_2/05 – Community re-imagingings of heritage
  4. Room Number CRL_2/10 – Racial and national Identities
  5. Room Number CRL_3/03 – Media affecting climate and sustainability policies
  6. Room Number CRL_3/11 – Digital narratives
  7. Room Number CRL_1/115 – Panel Presentation: How can media and arts practice support and promote greater sports participation for women and girls?
  8. Room Number CRL_1/116 – Barriers in Music: Change-making through pedagogical practices, institutional accountability and creative expression
  9. Room Number CRL_1/117 – What can the archives reveal? 
  10. Room Number CRL_1/118 – Faces of Local Journalism
  11. Room Number CRL_1/119 – The Mirror, Mirroring and Other forms of mediated reality
  12. Room Number CRL_1/120 – Role of Documentary in Idenitity Construction

15:00 – 15:30                   Teas and Coffees

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

15:30 – 17:00 Session 9: AGM and Awards 

Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre 

17:00 – 18:00                   Session 10: Roundtables/ Screenings/ Practice based research  

Location: Various

  1. Room Number CRL_1/06 – [Round table]: Future Paths for UK Practice Research: A Repository?
  2. Room Number CRL_1/10 – [Round table]: A Round Table linked to the new EUP volume The Ethics of Documentary Film
  3. Room Number CRL_2/05 – [Round table]: Intercultural explorations of identity and belonging in the work of hospitality and integration
  4. Room Number CRL_2/10 – [Interactive Workshop]: Mapping Youth Narratives: An Interactive Workshop On Art and Creative Methods for Decolonial Research
  5. Room Number CRL_3/03 – [Interactive Workshop]: From pen to pixels. Your handwriting in transition from paper to screen.
  6. Room Number CRL_3/11 – [Round table]:MeCCSA Policy Network Roundtable
  7. Room Number CRL_1/115 – [Round table]: Behind The Horizon
  8. Room Number CRL_1/116 – Workshop: Values in the media: Understanding our cultural values and exploring how these may appear in our work
  9. Room Number CRL_1/117 – [Round table]: SACI Journalism Roundtable: The state of journalism in Scotland
  10. Room Number CRL_1/118 – Panel Presentation: Trust in Arts-Based Research
  11. Room Number CRL_1/119 – LGBTQ+ and trans-gender Issues (3 papers)
  12. Room Number CRL_1/120 – Photographic Practices

18:00 – 19:00                    Drinks Reception 

19:00 – 20:30                    Dinner

20:30                                    Pay Bar open

21:00 – 22:00                    Ceilidh – The Chapel

6th September 2025
DAY 3

09:00 – 09:30 Day Registration 

Location: Entrance Foyer  

09:30 – 11:00                    Session 11: Presentations

Location: Various

  1. Room Number CRL_1/06 – Gender informed social media strategies
  2. Room Number CRL_1/10 – Panel Presentation: ‘I girlbossed too hard’: Gender, Labour, Visibility and Identity
  3. Room Number CRL_2/05 – Diaspora, Displacement and Idenity
  4. Room Number CRL_2/10 – Initiatives for Cultural Community Building
  5. Room Number CRL_3/03 – Enacting Feminism and Femininity
  6. Room Number CRL_3/11 – National Identities and Decolonsing Media Practices
  7. Room Number CRL_1/115 – Panel Presentation: Rethinking Peer Review for Non-Screen and Non-Text-Based Creative Practice Research
  8. Room Number CRL_1/116 – Digital Data and Responsibility
  9. Room Number CRL_1/117 – Scandalous!
  10. Room Number CRL_1/118 – Identity Construction through Media
  11. Room Number CRL_1/119 – Confronting Populism and Neo-liberalism (3 papers)
  12. Room Number CRL_1/120 – Trauma studies

11:00 – 11:15                   Teas and Coffees

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

11:15 – 12:45                    Session 12: Presentations x 4

Location: Various 

  1. Room Number CRL_1/06 – Media Power Relations: How media reporting affects policy
  2. Room Number CRL_1/10 – Panel Presentation: Narratives of place, identity and representation in local media
  3. Room Number CRL_2/05 – Exclusionary Narratives
  4. Room Number CRL_2/10 – Creating a Better world: Eco- Activism, Creative and cultural policies and much more!
  5. Room Number CRL_3/03 – A labour of love!
  6. Room Number CRL_3/11 – Identity and belonging through labour in the 21st century
  7. Room Number CRL_1/115 – Ethics in an age of Disinformation
  8. Room Number CRL_1/116 – Panel Presentation: Bad News on the Cost of Living Crisis: a Glasgow University Media Group panel
  9. Room Number CRL_1/117 – Screenings Other
  10. Room Number CRL_1/118 – Screenings Other
  11. Room Number CRL_1/119 – Screenings Other
  12. Room Number CRL_1/120 – Screenings Other

12:45 – 13:05
 Session 13: Closing Session 

Location: Lindsay Stewart Lecture Theatre 

13:00 – 14:00                   Lunch

Location: TBC – River Suite and Foyer (?)

15:00
Edinburgh Walking Tour  

Location: TBC – Starting point will be confirmed once numbers are confirmed