Escaping stormy Britain I headed over “The Bridge” to snowy Sweden (Feb 2nd-6th 2014) as part of the EMHIS project. Warmly welcomed at Lund University by Patrik, Charlie, Emilia and Erik, I spent my time presenting papers, having productive meetings about my PhD and conducting research in the library.
Accompanied by my doctoral supervisors and colleagues from the Centre for Media History at Bournemouth University (Prof Hugh Chignell, Dr Kristin Skoog, Tony Stoller & Megan Davies) this was a brilliant opportunity to for us all to learn more about Swedish Media Research and to strengthen our multi-disciplinary relationship with the team in Lund. On Wednesday evening, Kristin chaired a seminar at Lund in their Film-och mediehistorika seminariet series, at which Hugh, Tony and I read papers focusing on public service broadcasting and how it has been interpreted in the UK. This was my first time presenting my work to a room full of non-British (and non-radio) scholars and proved to be an incredibly valuable experience.
All the team at Lund University were great – hospitality, time, support. We are looking forward to welcoming the entire EMHIS contingent to Bournemouth in May.
// Kathryn McDonald