Culture, Communication and Media

About the department

The Department of Culture, Communication and Media (CCM) covers the following areas:

• Communication and media studies
• Applied linguistics
• Second and foreign language teaching and learning
• Intercultural communication
• Academic writing
• English education
• Music education
• Art, design, and museology
• Living and learning with technology.

Our people

The vast majority of our staff have been practising school teachers at some point in their careers. Some of our members are current teachers in schools as well as academic researchers in the department.

Management and administrative team

• Head of Department: Professor Jeff Bezemer
• Departmental Administrator and PA to Head of Department: Fran Reubens
• Academic Heads of Teaching and Learning (AHTL): Dr Sara Hawley and Ms Áine McAllister
• Heads of Research: Professor Talia Isaacs and Professor Jim McKinley
• Innovation and Enterprise Lead: Dr Eunju Hwang
• Impact Lead: Professor Alison Clark-Wilson
• Research Ethics Coordinator: Dr Hakan Ergul
• Inclusion Leads: Professor Talia Isaacs and Dr Carol Wild
• Departmental Graduate Tutors: Dr Ana Pellicer Sanchez and Dr Myrrh Domingo
• Departmental Tutors (Pastoral): Dr Emma Brooks and Ms Sophia Diamantopoulou
• Research Lead for UCL East: Professor Brigitta Zics
• Director of the UCL Knowledge Lab: Professor Kaśka Porayska-Pomsta
• Co-Directors of the Centre for Applied Linguistics: Professor Miguel Pérez-Milans and Professor Andrea Révész
• Director of International Centre for Intercultural Studies: Professor Zhu Hua
• Director of the ReMAP research centre: Professor John Potter
• Director of the Academic Writing Centre: Professor David Mallows
• Art, Design and Museology group lead: Professor Claire Robins
• Communications group lead: Professor William Gibson
• English Education group lead: Mehrunissa Shah
• Music Education group lead: Professor Graham Welch