A great big headline to catch some attention, because everyone likes attention

So you understand the roaring wave of fear that swept through the greatest city in the world just as Monday was dawning--the stream of flight rising swiftly to a torrent, lashing in a foaming tumult round the railway stations, banked up into a horrible struggle about the shipping in the Thames, and hurrying by every available channel northward and eastward. By ten o'clock the police organisation, and by midday even the railway organisations, were losing coherency, losing shape and efficiency, guttering, softening, running at last in that swift liquefaction of the social body.

Screenshot of link to event with Melanie Challenger and George Monbiot

MEC students at event – How to Live for Nature: Melanie Challenger and George Monbiot

Back in November, we received an invitation from Melanie Challenger for MEC students to attend an event about organised by Blackwells’s and Orion Magazine on the relationships between humans and the rest of nature, and what we can do. Both Melanie Challenger and George Monbiot would be talking at the event, and MEC students were encouraged to send questions in…

“Listening to Animals”. A Oxford Centre for Life-Writing Event.

Tuesday next week, the Life-Writing Beyond Words network at the Oxford Centre for Life-Writing is hosting a public event exploring how animal expressiveness may inspire, support, enrich the process of incorporating the non-verbal in life-writing. Speakers include artists, academics and writers such as Katherine Collins and Aline Pénitot. What can life-writing learn from the expressive forms of the animal kingdom? Date: 9…

Yellow scarf on dried-up soil.

The TIME issue on Climate Justice

A fundamental challenge in the pursuit of Climate Justice is the visualization of change. Even in the post-truth era, we still ascribe a great degree of trust to facts. Often, numerical data are employed to establish these facts. And while popularly we may believe numbers don’t lie, the majority of us would find extremely difficult to effectively comprenhend the operations…

Media and Environmental Communication: your course

With the growth of technology and internet use, the media has become central to the ways in which environmental issues are communicated to and understood by the public, on a local and global scale. Whether through photographs, documentaries, advertising or news articles, we are made aware of the challenges that face our planet like never before. Scientists, environmental organisations, businesses…

Class of 2023 BA Media and Environmental Communication -Welcome!!

We would like to welcome you onto the BA (Hons) Media and Environmental Communication course. We are looking forward to meeting you and to support you through this first year of your degree. Welcome Week will take place between Monday the 28th of Sep. and Friday 2nd of October. This will involve activities which will give you the opportunity to…

Learning how to communicate to make a difference – by Mattias Watkins, MEC graduate

I finished Media and Environmental Communication this year, and since then I have been volunteering for local environmental charities, something I am looking to pursue long term and possibly turn into a career path. This is common for MEC students, as most of us tend to volunteer at some point while studying towards the BA. Working together and helping out…

MEC: learning to question our world and spark real change in it, by Katy Ensch, MEC student

By Katy Ensch, 1st year MEC student. Well, undoubtedly 2020 is a strange year for everyone. Although approaching 25 years of age this has also been my first year of University. However, despite the lockdown and everything else going on in the world, I’m really happy with how it’s gone. And I’m already excited to start the second year of…

Climate Action 13th March 2020

The UK Student Climate Network (UKSCN) has called for a day of online and offline protest against the government’s lack of action on the Climate Crisis. You can find information about activities organised by local groups here. And here are some ways in which you can get involved while staying indoors:   Make noise in social media – Tweet, Retweet,…

National Union of Students – Everything you need to know about the UCU Strikes this February and March

“[…] staff pay has declined by 17% over a decade, compounded by gendered and racialised pay gaps, they do significant amounts of unpaid work due to the size of workloads and casualisation is becoming an increasing problem. This means that many teaching staff in particular are employed on hourly paid contracts or zero hours ones, with very little job security. UCU are…

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