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Who We Are: The Department of Media and Communication is part of the University of Leicester’s Faculty of Social Sciences. It was newly launched in 2006 and evolved out of the Centre for Mass Communication Research (CMCR). CMCR was the first academic centre to be established in the United Kingdom dedicated to the study of media and communication. The launch of the Department of Media and Communication is testament to the growing commitment being made by the University of Leicester to research and teaching in this area.
　　
Under this new arrangement, CMCR was incorporated within the larger department as a research centre that specialises in research into mass communications issues. The aim of the Department of Media and Communication is to continue in the long tradition of CMCR and provide a supportive and stimulating learning environment for students at all levels from all parts of the world. Top quality teaching and supervision is informed by a dynamic and productive research culture. Students are taught be staff from diverse backgrounds who are actively engaged in leading edge research in their specialist fields.
　　
Our history: Academic scholarship in media and communications at the University of Leicester began in 1966 with the birth of the Centre for Mass Communications Research. Initially, CMCR was a research centre that offered some PhD supervision. Its doctoral graduates include many distinguished academics, media professionals and policy-makers based in the UK and around the world.

In the late 1970s, the UK’s Social Science Research Council (now the Economic and Social Research Council or ESRC) invited CMCR to design and launch the first taught MA degree in Mass Communications. The course became a great success and now attracts 40 or more students a year from all over the world.

In 1992, CMCR launched its BSc in Communications & Society. Then, in 1995 it offered its MA in Mass Communications by distance learning for those students who wished to study part-time from home. Since the turn of the millennium, further taught postgraduates degrees have been launched including an MSc in Media and Communication Research (in 2000) as a research training programme for research degree students, and an MA in Globalisation and Communication (in 2001). (For more information, please visit our website here)