The Centre for Contemporary Cultural Studies (CCCS) was founded in 1964 by Richard Hoggart, who became the first centre director at the University of Birmingham. The CCCS is notable for producing many of the key studies and most prominent researchers in the Cultural Studies discipline and was a vitally important addition to the field.
Jan Campbell is senior lecturer in English at the University of Birmingham and a former member of staff at DCSS. Campbell’s research focuses on the interface between psycho[1]analysis and cultural theory, psychoanalysis and film and psychoanalysis and therapy practice (she is a clinical analyst). Her most recent book, Psychoanalysis and the Time of Life: Durations of the Unconscious Self is a rereading of Freud in relation to the work of Henri Bergson.
Ann Gray is Professor of Cultural Studies at the University of Lincoln, Editor of the European Journal of Cultural Studies and is on the Editorial Board of the Journal of British Cinema and Television and Memory Studies. Her previous publications include Research Practice for Cultural Studies: Ethnographic Methods and Lived Cultures (2003) and Video Playtime: the Gendering of a Leisure Technology (1992). She is director of the AHRC project ‘Televising History: 1995–2010’.
Mark Erickson is currently Senior Lecturer in the School of Applied Social Sciences at the University of Brighton. He was a member of staff at DCSS from 1996 until its closure in 2001. His most recent book is Science, Culture and Society: Making Sense of Science in the 21st Century (2005) published by Polity.
Stuart Hanson is Senior Lecturer in Media Studies at De Montfort University, Leicester. He has previously taught at Wolverhampton University and in the Department of Cultural Studies and Sociology at the University of Birmingham. He is author of a forthcoming book for MUP entitled From Silent Screen to Multi-screen: A History of Cinema Exhibition in Britain Since 1896.
Helen Wood is Lecturer of Sociology at De Montfort University. She is author of Talking With Television forthcoming, University of Illinois Press, and has published on television, audiences, talk shows, reality television and cultural studies in a number of journals. She is also assistant editor of the journal Ethnography. She was an undergraduate student and member of staff in the Department of Cultural Studies at Birmingham.
