The Center for Excellence in Media (CEMP)

CEMP is a organisation that is trying to influence educational research. It is based at the Media School at Bournemouth University, directly linking it to this project. Three 'external evaluators' have been assigned to review and evaluate work in the different areas that CEMP cover. One of these evaluators is Janet Hanson, who happens to be the Head of Education Enhancement at Bournemouth University. The Higher Education Funding Council gave it its status in 2004 and it is the only one of its kind in the UK (HEFCE-funded center of media excellence).

CEMP has been set up to keep the country up to date with the constantly changing and developing sides to media. CEMP sees itself as being positioned at the forefront of the response to the technological, social, organisational and cultural changes that the media industry is always going through. It is always looking for new ways for students to enhance and expand their knowledge and functionality with media.
CEMP's leading aim is to produce practitioners with a full understanding to the potential of leading and evolving technologies as well as converging media. It helps towards the teaching of tools and mechanics to support radical new ideas and give students their own personal style of working building upon the ever-evolving nature of the world wide web. It does this by funding trips such as the one we just took to Bournemouth.

Here is a link to their website: