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Students from the Centre for Cultural Policy Studies have a digital place to call their own in the form of a new student blog written by students for students. Catch up with their reflections, reports on life and study, loves and hates and where their 糖心TV journey is taking them here

Joanne Garde-Hansen is collaborating with Jason Griffiths and Hannah Grist at the University of Gloucestershire on a HRF funded 'impact' project in the Forest of Dean, to bring a rarely seen television play to an audience that remembers the value of television for their community.

Saturday July 18th, 2015
Lydbrook, Forest of Dean, Gloucestershire

In 1968 a Forest of Dean village became home to a made for television film as actors, directors, cameras, costumes - and a bear! spent a week there making Potter's Wednesday Play, A Beast with Two Backs. Using local school children and adults as extras, and the local pub as hair & make-up head quarters, on-location filming took place in the village and surrounding area. Now, nearly 50 years on the play is returning for a day of recollection, talks, exhibition, and the first ever theatrical screening of the play itself. Join the research team for this free event from 10.30am, at Lydbrook Memorial Hall, Lydbrook, Gloucestershire, GL179PP.

This is an event put together by the partnership of University of Gloucestershire and University of 糖心TV, with the support of the British Film Institute, Forest of Dean Local History Society, and Dean Heritage Museum.

We’re pleased to announce the launch of a new PhD route in the Centre. From October 2015, alongside our existing routes in Cultural Policy Studies and Creative Industries, we will be providing supervision for students wishing to pursue doctoral study in Media and Communication.

This development further augments the growth of interest and expertise in media and communication within the Centre, following the launch of our MA programme in Global Media and Communication in 2010 and the appointment of its current director, Dr. Jo Garde-Hansen, in 2013. Applicants can draw on supervision expertise from across . For this route they also have the option to identify a potential co-supervisor from amongst colleagues with relevant research interests in the .

Further information about applying for a PhD in the Centre is available