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I am delighted to report that the Centre for Media History together with the University of Lund and the Hans Bredow Institute at the University of Hamburg, has won a research grant from the Swedish ‘STINT’ fund.  The Swedish Foundation for International Cooperation in Research and Higher Education (STINT) was set up in 1994 by an act of the Swedish Parliament to promote the internationalisation of Swedish higher education.

My colleague, Kristin Skoog and I helped write a successful bid together with our partners in Lund and Hamburg.  Out of 95 applications to the fund only 10 were awarded grants.

The aim of the award is to establish a network of media historians to study aspects of European media history and in particular the idea of historical ‘entanglement’.  Another aim is to focus on sometimes neglected European influences in the media and indeed to reflect the European turn in media and cultural studies away from an over-emphasis on North America.

The Bournemouth part of the network currently comprises of Kristin Skoog, Maike Helmers and me as well as three of our PhD students, Tony Stoller, Kathryn McDonald and Gloria Khamkar.  The network will meet in Bournemouth, Lund and Hamburg and the events will be in the spring and autumn each year.  The award runs from 2014 to 2018.

By the end of our networking activity we hope to have learned a great deal more about each other’s research and ideas and together we will be in a strong position to bid for a larger European grant.

If you would like to know more about the STINT project please get in touch with me.

Hugh Chignell  hchignell@bournemouth.ac.uk