Centre for Comedy Studies Research
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The Centre for Comedy Studies Research (CCSR) is an international research centre devoted to the academic study of comedy. As an interdisciplinary centre the CCSR considers the production, content, reception and wider socio-political implications of comedy in a variety of formats and from a range of perspectives. The Centre successfully brings together leading academics and writers in the fields of media and communications, sociology, psychology, theatre, drama, film and television, computing, English, creative writing and social work.
The Centre's research examines the production, content, reception and wider socio-political implications of comedy in its variety of formats from television sketch shows to comedy thrillers. All of its research and teaching is strongly underpinned by the belief that comedy is socially, culturally, politically and economically significant at local, national and international levels. The Centre's work clusters around a number of overlapping themes that include:
- Comedy Forms and Formats
- Comedy and Identity
- Comedy, Power and Ideology
- Comedy, Taboo and Offence
The team has strong links with the comedy industry and is supported by CCSR Ambassadors.
The Centre's aims are:
- To promote and facilitate academic research on the comedy/society interface
- Through a broad research agenda facilitate inter-disciplinary research that examines the ways in which comedy can be used un/seriously and positively and/or negatively in all spheres of society (in business, party politics, IT, health, education, identity politics, media, arts, law)
- To contribute to debates relevant to industry and practitioners
- To provide a hub for mentoring and developing research skills for research students
- To provide graduate and undergraduate teaching that links to members' main research interests
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Offers funding
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Founding year
2013
Contact details
Kingston Lane
Uxbridge
UB8 3PH
United Kingdom
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Additional Partnerships
Live Comedy Association; British Comedy Guide
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2026-10-04 22:33:32