Cardiff School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies

Awards

Recent Funded Research

(2008-2011) NHS Service and Delivery Organisation - `Evidence into practice: evaluating a child-centred intervention for diabetes medicine management'. Consultant for CDA of information provided for children on diabetes. Principal investigator: Professor Anne Williams, RCN Professor of Nursing Research, Cardiff University. (£399,993- £1,600 to JOMEC for consultation).

(2007-2010) NHS Service and Delivery Organisation R&D Programme, “Health, medicines and self-care choices made by children, young people and their families: Information to support decision making." Principal investigator: Professor Anne Williams, RCN Professor of Nursing Research, Cardiff University. Discourse analysis of health information provided for children to help manage particular tracer conditions (e.g. diabetes, epilepsy, asthma) and ENT surgery.

(2008-2009) Bavarian Broadcasting Corporation, International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television. Project entitled “Children’s Television Worldwide: Gender Representation.” Twenty-country study, monitoring children television channels. Follow up study using initial data to undertake an international comparison of English language children’s TV introduction songs and non-fiction programming (€ 5,540). Principal Investigator: Dr Cynthia Carter with RA Ms Ann Luce.

(2009) ARHC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme, Knowledge Infusion – Investigating the Transitional and Teen News Audience. Principal Investigator: Dr Cynthia Carter with colleagues Professor Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University); Professor Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster); Dr Kaitlynn Mendes (De Montfort University); Mr Ian Prince (BBC). (£10,000)

(2007-2008) AHRC/BBC Knowledge Exchange Programme. Bid entitled “What Do Children Want from the BBC? Children’s Content and Participatory Environments in an Age of Citizen Media”. Joint research with the BBC for the “Children’s Content and Participatory Environments” project. Principal Investigator: Dr Cynthia Carter (Cardiff University). BBC partners: Roy Milani (former Editor, Newsround) and Louise Wass (BBC Learning). Academic partners: Professor Stuart Allan (Bournemouth University - from 1 September 2007) and Professor Máire Messenger Davies (University of Ulster).

Report: www.bbc.co.uk/blogs/knowledgeexchange [1.41MB]

(2007) "Children's Television Worldwide: Gender Representation," Bavarian Broadasting Corporation (International Central Institute for Youth and Educational Television). Principal investigator for a project on representations of gender on three UK children's television channels as part of an international study in over 20 countries.