Welcome to Media, Communication and Sociology

The subject area offers:

• undergraduate courses in film, media, public relations, sociology, and cultural studies
• postgraduate programmes in public relations, culture, politics and economy and screen studies.

All our undergraduate programmes, including the only programme in Scotland accredited by the Chartered Institute of Public Relations (CIPR), offer a critical understanding of the media, culture and society, while one sixth of each programme is devoted to practical media production. QMU is the only Scottish Institution to offer CIPR accredited undergraduate and postgraduate programmes and to teach the CIPR Diploma.To find out more about our programmes, click on the "Courses" link at the top of this page. Links are also provided to career prospects, samples of student work, opportunities to study abroad and staff details.

QMU’s Communication, Cultural & Media Studies research has been rated as internationally original, significant and rigorous, and in some cases world leading, by the Research Assessment Exercise 2008.

Four star (4*) - quality that is world-leading in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
Three star (3*) - quality that is internationally excellent in terms of originality, significance and rigour but                     which nonetheless falls short of the highest standards of excellence.
Two star (2*) - quality that is recognised internationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
One star (1*) - quality that is recognised nationally in terms of originality, significance and rigour.
U/C - unclassified

Details of MCS Research - QMU eResearch website
RAE2008: The Outcome - RAE website

For more details about research at QMU, please click on the Research button top left.