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Publications

Centre members have published work on topics ranging from Welsh film and television drama to Hungarian translations and adaptations of Shakespeare to Norwegian fan communities. The Centre is also currently editing a series of ten volumes in partnership with University of Wales Press. This focuses on different aspects of the media and culture in small nations, first nations and diaspora communities.


Research Reports

Hurford, R. (2024) Games Survey Wales 2024 Update

Hurford, R. and McElroy, R. (2022) Games Survey Wales 2021: Mapping the Welsh Video Games Industry. Clwstwr Programme Report

Davies, H. and McElroy, R. (2022) Screen Survey Wales 2021. ISBN: 978-1-909838-58-1

Hannah, F. and McElroy, R. (2020) Screen work 2020: Future skills and innovation for the Screen Sector in the Cardiff Capital Region.

Carr, P. (2020) The Welsh Music Industries in a Post-Covid world. A report for the Culture, Welsh Language and Communications Committee. Read the full report here.

McElroy, R. and Noonan, C. with Blandford, S. (2015) Television Drama Production in Wales: BBC Wales, Roath Lock Studios.

McElroy, R., Papagiannouli, C. and William, H. (2015) 'Annex 1: Review of Policy Development’ in IWA Wales Media Audit 2015 , Cardiff: IWA, pp. 124-138. See also IWA 2015 Executive Summary.

Blandford, S., Lacey, S., McElroy, R. and Williams, R. (2010) Screening the Nation: Wales and Landmark Television, Report for the BBC Trust/Audience Council Wales. ISBN: 978-1-84054-248-6.

Submissions to Public Consultations

The Centre for Media and Culture in Small Nations (2018) Consultation Response: Terms of Reference, Ofcom’s Thematic review of Representation and Portrayal on the BBC, 28 March.

Johnson, S. (2018) Response to the Culture Welsh Language and Communication Committee Radio in Wales Consultation, 14 February. Oral Evidence (22 March).

McElroy, R., Wiliam, H., Papagiannouli, C. and Davies, H. (2017) S4C in Context: A comparative overview, Response to DCMS Review of S4C (Ymateb i Adolygiad Yr Adran Dros Ddiwylliant Cyfryngau a Chwaraeon o S4C), 13 October.

McELroy, R. Lewis, L. (2017) Response to DCMS PSB Contestable Fund Consultation, 14 February.

Research Blogs and Websites

Media Cymru: https://media.cymru/

Clwstwr: https://clwstwr.org.uk/

Creative COVID19 Blog: https://culture.research.southwales.ac.uk/creative-covid19-blog/ 

Television from Small Nations: https://smallnationsscreen.org/project/television-from-small-nations-network/

Welsh and Khasi Cultural Dialogues: http://www.welshkhasidialogues.co.uk/

The History of Popular Music in Merthyr Tydfil: https://paulcarr.org/blog/

Davies, H. and Papagiannouli, C. (2018) The Future of Welsh-language broadcaster S4C: Funding and Remit, Media Policy Project Blog, LSE.

McElroy, R. (2017) The future of media in Wales: policy challenges, Media Policy Project Blog, LSE.

Small Nations Book Series

Blandford, S. (ed.) (2013) Theatre and Performance in Small Nations. Bristol: Intellect.

Hand, R. and Traynor, M. (eds.) (2012), Radio in Small Nations: Productions, Programmes, Audiences. Cardiff: UWP.

Selected publications on media and culture in small nations by Centre members

Books

Mills, K. (2024). Myths and Ancient Stories: Narrative, Meaning and Influence in the West. Bloomsbury Academic . Minier, M., Montironi, M. E. & Paravano, C. (Eds.) (2024). Local/Global Shakespeare and Advertising. New York: Routledge Crews, S. (Ed.), & Lennox, P. S. (2023). Boxing, Narrative and Culture Critical Perspectives. (Routledge Research in Sport, Culture and Society). Routledge. Rendell, J. (2023). Transmedia Terrors in Post-TV Horror: Digital Distribution, Abject Spectrums and Participatory Cultures. Amsterdam University Press. Walford Davies, D., & Mills, K. (Eds.) (2023). Free Verse: Poems for Richard Price. Seren Books. Booth, P., & Williams, R. (Eds.) (2021). A Fan Studies Primer: Method, Ethics, Research. (Fandom & Culture). University of Iowa Press. Minier, M., & Kahn, L. (Eds.) (2021). Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe. (Transcript; Vol. 16). Legenda.

Editorials

Crews, S., & Lennox, S. (2023). On Blood. Performance Research, 28(1). Williams, R., & Bennett, L. (2022). Fandom and Controversy. American Behavioral Scientist, 66(8)

Book Chapters

Lewis, L., ap Trefor, R., Bonello, G., & Syiem, L. (Accepted/In press). Translation in the Welsh-Khasi Cultural Exchange: Contemporary Performance and Embodied Experience. In E. De Francisci, & C. Marinetti (Eds.), Translation in the Performing Arts Lewis, L. (Accepted/In press). Continuity and Change in the Welsh Eisteddfod: the interchangeability of tradition and innovation in intangible cultural heritage. In L. McMurtry, & R. Kosmidou (Eds.), Disciplinary Approaches to Intangible Cultural Heritage Smith, R. (2025). Improvised Music in Wales. In Á. Havas, B. Johnson, & D. Horn (Eds.), The Routledge Companion to Diasporic Jazz Studies (pp. 298-307). Routledge. Lewis, L. (2024). ‘A oes a’ch deil o hyd mewn Cof a Chalon?’ Myfyrdodau ar theatr a pherfformio byw yn sgil y cyfnod clo. In Hunan a Chenedl: Atudiaethau Athronyddol #9 (Vol. 9, pp. 52-68). (Astudiaethau Athronyddol). Y Lolfa. Durden, M. (2024). After Modernism. In S. Phipps (Ed.), Brutal Wales Cymru Friwtalaidd September Publishing. Jachimiak, P. H. (2024). Out of my brain on the bullet train: Japan, mod and the migratory flows of a subculture. In E. Weesjes, & M. Worley (Eds.), Music, Subcultures and Migration: Routes and Roots (pp. 65-80). Routledge. Minier, M. (2024). Advertising and memorialising a theatrical Shakespeare rewrite in local, national and cosmopolitan contexts: The Sherman Theatre and the National Theatre's Romeo and Julie. In M. Minier, M. E. Montironi, & C. Paravano (Eds.), Local/Glob Crews, S. (2023). Letting Down the Team?: Individualism, Selfishness and Kinship in Women’s Boxing. In S. Crews, & P. S. Lennox (Eds.), Boxing, Narrative and Culture Critical Perspectives (pp. 128-147). Routledge. Jachimiak, P. (2023). Lost in the Booth: British Record Store Listening Booths as Atmospheric Sites of Intimacy. In G. Arnold, J. Dougan, C. Feldman-Barrett, & M. Worley (Eds.), The Life, Death and Afterlife of the Record Store: A Global History Bloomsbur Lewis, L. (2023). Plethu Diwylliannau Perfformio: Theatr Drawsddiwylliannol Gyfoes rhwng Cymru a Bryniau Casia. In I. Rowlands (Ed.), Llwyfannu'r Genedl Anghyflawn: Iaith a Hunaniaeth yn y Theatr Gymraeg (pp. 39-66). University of Wales Press. Minier, M. (2023). “Not […] for the Faint Hearted”: Volcano Theatre’s LOVE as a Physical Theatre Adaptation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets. In Shakespeare’s Global Sonnets: Translation, Appropriation, Performance (pp. 201-219). Cham: Springer International Perrins, D. (2023). ‘Now say something in Welsh’: Gavin and Stacey in Translation. In M. Irwin, & J. Marshall (Eds.), UK and Irish Television Comedy: Representations of Region, Nation, and Identity (pp. 175-191). (Palgrave Studies in Comedy (PSCOM)). Rendell, J. (2023). Horror TV. In G. Creeber (Ed.), The Television Genre Book: Fourth Edition (4th ed., pp. 90-94). British Film Instittue [BFI]. Rendell, J. (2023). American Horror Story. In G. Creeber (Ed.), The Television Genre Book: Fourth Edition (4th ed., pp. 94-96). British Film Instittue [BFI]. Williams, R. (2023). Desiring Doctor Who From 'Desiring the Doctor: Identity, Gender and Genre in Online Fandom’. In P. Booth, M. Hills, J. Piedmont, & T. Rayner Roberts (Eds.), Adventures Across Space and Time: A Doctor Who Reader. Bloomsbury Williams, R. (2023). Creativity and Connection: How Disney Parks’ Fans Responded During the Coronavirus Closures. In S. Mittermeier (Ed.), Fan Phenomena: Disney Intellect. Williams, R. (2023). DisneyBounding & Beyond: Fandom, Cosplay, & Embodiment in Themed Spaces. In E. Affuso, & S. Scott (Eds.), Sartorial Fandom: Fashion, Beauty Culture, and Identity (pp. 205-218). University of Michigan Press. Durden, M., & leal, J. (2022). The Idea of Álvaro Siza. In Another Approach on the Works of Álvaro Siza: Contemporary Documentary Photography on Portuguese Architecture (pp. 190-261). Scopio. Jachimiak, P. (2022). Discordant Vocals and Blinding Light: The Moment of Petrification in Children of the Stones. In S. Cardwell, J. Bignell, & L. F. Donaldson (Eds.), Sound / image : Moments in television (pp. 60-77). Manchester University Press. Jachimiak, P. (2022). Meadows, Relics, and Victorian Dolls’ Houses: Places, Ephemera, and the Unreal Realities of Pink Floyd. In C. Hart, & S. Morrison (Eds.), The Routledge Handbook of Pink Floyd (pp. 403-422). Routledge. Minier, M. (2022). “Still Our Contemporary” in East-Central Europe? Post-Socialist Shakespearean Allusions and Frameworks of Reference. In Onscreen Allusions to Shakespeare: International Films, Television, and Theatre (pp. 157-176). Cham: Springer Intern Papagiannouli, C. (2022). A Postdigital Response: Experiential Dramaturgies of Online Theatre, Cyberformance and Digital Texts. In W. W. Lewis, & S. Bartley (Eds.), Experiential Theatres: Praxis-Based Approaches to Training 21st Century Theatre Artists. Squire, L. (2022). Enabling authentic community-facing employability opportunities in a pandemic? Host a music festival! In S. Norton, & A. Penaluna (Eds.), 3 Es for Wicked Problems: Employability, Enterprise, and Entrepreneurship: Solving Wicked Problems Wallace, D. (2022). “Everything Is Out of Place”: Virginia Woolf, Women, and (Meta-)Historical Biofiction. In J. Novak, & C. Ní Dhúill (Eds.), Imagining Gender in Biographical Fiction (pp. 49-73). (Palgrave Studies in Life Writing). Palgrave Macmillan. Williams, R. (2022). Twin Peaks. In K. Gabbard (Ed.), Oxford Bibliographies in Cinema and Media Studies Oxford University Press. Allinson, J. (2021). Somatic and spatial approaches to essay writing for drama students with dyslexia. In P. Whitfield (Ed.), Inclusivity and Equality in Performance Training: Teaching and Learning for Neuro and Physical Diversity (pp. 140-156). Routledge Cunliffe, D. (2021). Minority Languages in the Age of Networked Individualism: From Social Networks to Digital Breathing Spaces. In H. Lewis, & W. McLeod (Eds.), Language Revitalisation and Social Transformation (1 ed., pp. 67-97). Palgrave Macmillan. Lewis, L. (2021). Performing on the Tightrope: Sacred Place, Embodied Knowledge and the Conflicted History of Colonial Modernity in the Welsh and Khasi Relationship. In S. Battista (Ed.), Performances of Sacred Places: Crossing, Breathing, Resisting. Minier, M. (2021). The Rhetoric of Mastery and Discipleship in the Hungarian Canon of Hamlet Translations. In M. Minier, & L. Kahn (Eds.), Hamlet Translations: Prisms of Cultural Encounters across the Globe (pp. 162-184). Legenda. Rendell, J. (2021). Tracing Terror-Bytes: Ring: Saishusho as Japanese TV horror, Online Transcultural J-horror Fan Object, and Digital Only-Click Television. In S. Abbott, & L. Jowett (Eds.), Global TV Horror (pp. 215-231). University of Wales Press. Williams, R. (2021). ‘The ‘Eatymologies’ of the Theme Park: Re-creation, Imagination and the ‘Extra/Ordinary’ in Disney Foodstuff’. In C. D. Reinhard, J. Largent, & B. Chin (Eds.), Eating Fandom: Intersections Between Fans and Food Culture. Routledge.

Journal Articles

Papagiannouli, C. (Accepted/In press). Vlach-language theatre: The role of supertitles as translation in endangered-language heritage performance. NALANS. Allinson, J. (2024). Activation in the moment of pausing or slowing: Queer potentiality in the timeframe of performance/making. Performance Research, 28(8), 56-63. Advance online publication. Crews, S. K. (2024). Habits of Belonging in and through Boxing. Performance Research, 28(6), 115-123. Crews, S., & Lennox, P. S. (2024). Social Avatars and Future Boxing Identities. Visual Resources, 37(4), 304-320. Advance online publication. Cunliffe, D. (2024). Exploring the presence of Cymraeg on TikTok. New Media & Society, 00(00). Advance online publication. Evers, S., Kenkre, J., Kloppe, T., Kurpas, D., Mendive, J. M., Petrazzuoli, F. & Vidal-Alaball, J. (2024). Survey of general practitioners’ awareness, practice and perception of social prescribing across Europe. European Journal of General Practice, 30(1) Hill, C., & Maillochon, C. (2024). ‘Stealing fire from heaven’: Odette du Puigaudeau and French nuclear colonialism in the Algerian Sahara. International Review of Environmental History, 9(2), 99-122. Hill, C., & Ashipala, S. (2024). "Follow the Yellowcake Road": Historical Geographies of Namibian Uranium from the Rössing Mine. Historical Social Research, 49(1), 32-54. Rendell, J. (2024). Dangerous Exchange Students: Battle Royale and Transcultural Fans’ Intertextual Gatekeeping. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 22(3), 826–833. Rendell, J. (2024). Screaming Along to Mixtapes: Yellowjackets and the Choral Female Voice as Subversive Noise. Feminist Media Studies. Rendell, J. (2024). ‘Only English Around Here, Darlin’: His House, Anti-location and the Social (Sur)Realist Horror of Refugees and Asylum Seekers in the UK. Ethical Space: The International Journal of Communication Ethics, 21(2-3), 18-33. Rendell, J., & Egan, K. (2024). Special Dossier Introduction: Horror Fans and Audiences. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 22(3), 826-833. Allinson, J. (2023). Queering and disrupting as acts of intervention: Proposals for engendering an attitude of practising in the performance workshop space. Journal of Dance and Somatic Practices, 15(1), 65-75. Kenkre, J. (2023). Commentary: Lessons learned from the impact of the COVID-19 pandemic in Brazil on primary-care workplace learning groups. Journal of Research in Nursing, 28(2), 151-153. Kurpas, D., Mendive, J. M., Vidal-Alaball, J., Petrazzuoli, F., Morad, M., Kloppe, T., Herrman, W., Mrduljaš-Đujić, N., & Kenkre, J. (2023). European Perspective on How Social Prescribing Can Facilitate Health and Social Integrated Care in the Community. Rendell, J. (2023). In awe of scores and roars: Audience phenomenological fragmentation between screen and soundtrack. The Soundtrack, 14(1), 51-67 Smith, R., O'Mahoney, H., & Roberts, S. B. (2023). Collective Joy: The Spirituality of the Community Big Band Wonderbrass. Religions, 14(9). Yu, J., Wallace, S., & Kenkre, J. (2023). A consensus approach: Understanding the support needs of women in Newport West, Wales, to participate in breast screening. Health Expectations, 26(3) Yu, J., Kenkre, J., Wallace, S., Thomas, S., & Jessop, H. (2023). Methodological reflections on the recruitment and engagement of people for cancer screening research in Wales. Australian Journal of Primary Health, 29(2) Crews, S., & Allinson, J. (2022). Connect, converse, collaborate: Encountering belonging and forging resilience through creative practice. Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice, 19(4). Cunliffe, D., Vlachidis, A., Williams, D., & Tudhope, D. (2022). Natural Language Processing for Under-resourced Languages: Developing a Welsh Natural Language Toolkit. Computer Speech & Language, 72 Jachimiak, P. (2022). Garlands, Mug-House Riots, and Steaming In: London Pubs and the Mod Revival. Subbaculture, (10), 58-63. Jachimiak, P. (2022). Heavy Mod. Detail - The Magazine for Modernists, (4), 48-55. Jachimiak, P. (2022). Pump-Action Shotguns and Chiffon Scarves: The On-Screen Style of the Brit Mod Gangster. Detail - The Magazine for Modernists, (5), 26-31. Jachimiak, P. (2022). Satie, Japan, and the Quiet Boom. Subbaculture, (10), 85-87. Jachimiak, P. (2022). Smashing Times and Breaking Legs! Mod and the Art of Destruction. Subbaculture, (10), 68-73. Minier, M. (2022). A spinner of yarns: Conversations with Auntie Mady. Book 2.0, 12(2), 185-198. Angelopoulos , T., Konstantinakou , P., & Papagiannouli, C. (2021). UBUmaterial: Building a performative archive on Instagram. International Journal of Performance Arts and Digital Media, 18(1), 90-104. Baska, A., Kurpas, D., Kenkre, J., Vidal-Alaball, J., Petrazzuoli, F., Dolan, M., Śliż, D., & Robins, J. (2021). Social prescribing and lifestyle medicine—a remedy to chronic health problems? International Journal of Environmental Research & Public Health Hill, C. (2021). Making Space for Nuclear Physics: Professor Marcus Oliphant, Imperial Science and Terra Nullius. Art + Australia Online Lewis, L., & Syiem, L. (2021). Orality as Dramaturgy in the Khasi-Welsh Performance Exchange: Performing Journeys by the Khasi-Cymru Collective. Critical Stages/Scènes critiques, December 2021(24). Morimoto, L., Booth, P., Garner, R., Kohnen, M., Jones, B., Nielsen, E. J., Stein, L., & Williams, R. (2021). Transcultural Fan Studies in Practice: A Conversation. Transformative Works and Cultures, 35. Olive, P., Maxton, F., Bell, C. A., Bench, S., Tinkler, L., Jones, S., & Kenkre, J. (2021). Clinical academic research internships: What works for nurses and the wider nursing, midwifery and allied health professional workforce.Journal of Clinical Nursing Rendell, J. (2021). “I am (Not) Major”: Anti-fan memes of Paramount Pictures’ Ghost in the Shell Marketing Campaign. New Review of Film and Television Studies, 19(2), 173-199. Squire, L. (2021). Creativity, Culture and Capital: Impact investing in the global creative economy: Harnessing community facing enterprise in a pandemic? Host a music festival! Creativity, Culture and Capital. Vol 2, 31-35. Smith, R. (2021). Musical Micro-utopias: Jazz everywhere and everyone playing jazz. Riffs: Experimental writing on popular music, 5(2), 56-66. Smith, R. (2021). What can the Welsh school music sector learn from the community music movement? Journal of Popular Music Education, 5(1), 55-70.

For more publications by Centre staff visit the people section.