Applications are now open for IAMCR 2026 awards and travel grants, recognising outstanding papers and supporting participation from scholars based in low- and middle-income countries.
Several of IAMCR's sections and working groups will be holding online elections from 13 to 27 May. Current members of IAMCR who are also registered as members of the relevant section or working group, are eligible to stand for election. The call for candidates is open until 9 April.
Applications are now open for IAMCR Galway 2026 Travel Grants (up to USD 2,000). Early-career scholars and IAMCR office holders from low- and middle-income countries with accepted papers may apply. Deadline: 20 March 2026.
The Inclusive Communication and People with Disabilities Working Group invites submissions from PhD candidates, postdoctoral researchers, and early career scholars whose research engages with themes in Disability and Communication Studies. The submission deadline is 30 March 2026.
29 April, 2026 - Please join the Political Economy Section in a panel discussion of the publication Rethinking Media and Communication: A Critical Sociological Lens , which focuses on critical questions about the role of media and communication in capitalist societies.
7 September, 2026 - The Communication, Social Justice and Democracy (CJD) Working Group will hold a joint conference with ECREA as a pre-conference to ECREA 2026 in Prague, under the title "Communicating narratives, imaginaries and epistemes of hope".
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.