Graduation Ceremony December 2019

Programme Director Damyan Kachulski opens the Award Ceremony for the visiting students from Nanjing University at the University of Stirling’s Crush Hall.

Address by Dayman Kachulski, Programme Director

Dear students,

I want to congratulate you on the successful completion of the journalism programme as part of the Nanjing Exchange Project 2019! I know my colleagues would echo my words in saying that you have a lot to be proud of because you have done an amazing job.

Your persistence has led you to complete all assignments successfully, publish numerous articles, produce, direct, shoot and edit excellent pieces of reportage, designed and 3D-print exceptional 3D objects, improve your employability opportunities and visit great media companies. Your hard work has generated over 1100 unique visits on your website; you have done an excellent job and have made everybody proud!

Apart from your academic achievements, what I have been most impressed with is your ability to face all difficulties head on – you did not take them as challenges, but as opportunities to learn and improve yourselves! Never lose the passion with which you work! It is your work ethic that will take you far!

Damyan Kachulski, Programme Director

Division of Communications, Media and Culture

Since its foundation in 1978, the Division of Communications, Media and Culture within the Faculty of Arts and Humanities at the University of Stirling has developed into an internationally renowned centre for research and teaching. Ranked Top in Scotland for Journalism and Media Studies (Guardian 2019, NSS 2018), the division consistently draws high ratings for its teaching at all levels. Our students frequently win awards at major national competitions – including 4 Scottish awards and 1 UK-wide RTS award during 2018 – and many go on to become successful practitioners, entrepreneurs and executives in the media and communications industries globally. Communications, Media and Culture has built a broad spectrum of research expertise in recent years, encompassing research output in the humanities, social sciences and management, and has continued to give due priority to long-existing strengths in screen studies, while also retaining the focus on media sociology and political communications which were a particular feature of Stirling during the 1990s. On the back of its continuing success and achievements, recent growth has seen the arrival of a group of talented new colleagues with diverse interests ranging from data journalism and sound to digital publishing. The Division now offers a wide choice of options in taught graduate and undergraduate programmes, and in doctoral research, including theoretical study in the field of media and culture, as well as vocational work on the media, communications and journalism industries.