School of Communications Research Centre

The Centre for Society, Information and Media, based in the School, has undertaken major research projects on various aspects of media production, policy and reception.

Members of the School are involved in Representing Women Project. The Representing Women involves a team from three research centres at DCU. It draws on the expertise of three Research Centres in the areas of Linguistics, Political Science and Communication Studies located in The Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences at DCU to investigate the gender dynamic operating within Irish parliamentary democracy; specifically the representation, role(s) and performance of women politicians in Dáil Éireann. The project will make a significant contribution not only to Irish national politics but will also advance the development of both a European and international comparative research framework.

In June 2005, the School of Communications co-hosted with School of Media, Dublin Institute of Technology, the first all-Ireland media research conference under the title, Power, Trust and Ethics. The conference heard presentations by academic staff and postgraduate students from DCU, DIT, University of Limerick, University of Ulster, Trinity College Dublin and Dun Laoghaire Institute of Art Design and Technology. Visitors from abroad included Professor Robert Savage, Boston College, and the keynote speaker, Professor James Curran, Goldsmiths College, London.