IAMCR’s 2025 travel grants supported early-stage scholars from low- and middle-income countries, enabling them to attend the Singapore conference, share research, overcome financial barriers, and build global academic networks. Read their experiences.
Launched at IAMCR 2025, this report explores how multimodal research practices—like film, performance, and installation—enhance media scholarship and outlines strategies for supporting non-written academic communication within the discipline.
The Islam & Media Working Group presented its annual Nile Awards at IAMCR 2025 in Singapore, recognizing outstanding research on Islam and media. Three papers were awarded for originality, methodology, and scholarly contribution.
On 17 July 2025, at the closing plenary at the Singapore conference, the members present condemned the conviction of IAMCR member Bahruz Samadov for high treason by the Azerbaijani courts, and called for his immediate release.
IAMCR’s Ethics Task Force hosted a workshop on fostering ethical, inclusive environments. Participants explored challenges and strategies for implementing the Code of Conduct across IAMCR activities, focusing on equity, inclusion, and accountability.
The Award honours three outstanding papers that explore race, representation, and resistance through innovative approaches to media and communication. Their work reflects Hall’s legacy of critical, socially engaged scholarship across diverse cultural and political contexts.
IAMCR books
Public Communication in Freefall is the latest title in the Palgrave/IAMCR book series Global Transformations in Media and Communication Research. It examines the challenges facing political communication in the 2020s, drawing on and critically updating Jay Blumler’s work to explore what publicness and democracy mean in a changing media and political environment.
Edited by Sudeshna Roy (2025)
This book delivers an authoritative exploration of a variety of critical conflicts in the world and a spectrum of approaches to peace communication.
Members' books
Co-authored by Marína Urbániková, Klára Smejkal, Iveta Jansová and Lenka Waschková Císařová this book explores the state and future of public service media (PSM).
Authored by IAMCR member Minos-Athanasios Karyotakis, this book examines how and why societal actors may use different names to refer to the same territory. Karyotakis demonstrates the enormous symbolic power that the names of places can hold.
Democratising Spy Watching: Examines how public actors across Southern Africa have stepped in to oversee intelligence-driven digital surveillance where formal oversight mechanisms fall short. Co-edited by Jane Duncan, an IAMCR member, the book highlights public oversight as a critical response to expanding surveillance powers.
Mongrelisation: Reinterprets why diversity and inclusion matter by reclaiming the figure of the “mongrel” as a source of dignity and worth. By IAMCR member Colin Chasi, the book draws on African moral traditions such as Ubuntu and Maat to foreground hybridity, mixing, and crossing as central to human history and culture.