The SMCS undertakes research in the following broad areas:

• Film and Television Studies
• Documentary Film and Media Representation
• Media Censorship
• Media Representation of Marginalised Groups
• Urbanism, Gender and Public Space
• Globalisation, Sexuality and Questions of Representation
• Young Women and Feminism
• Political Economy of Media
• Participatory Media Democratic Decentralisation
• Micro- Level Planning and Local Self Governance
• Globalisation and its implications for culture
• New Media and ICTs