Community Media
The Community Media research group grew from existing work carried
out by Jenny Harding, but was properly launched and consolidated in
Spring 2007 with the recruitment of two new staff - Peter Lewis and
Salvatore Scifo. Hitherto, very little research on community media has
been undertaken either in the UK or the rest of Europe. The recent
launch and rapid expansion of the community radio (CR) sector and plans
for digital switchover which threaten to exclude community TV have
created both problems and opportunities in areas such as training,
policy monitoring and impact assessment. The group seeks to encourage a
multi-disciplinary approach to research, drawing on the contacts and
experience of colleagues, involving students, and seeking partnerships
with local community groups and NGOs.
Membership
Peter Lewis is an authority on community media
across the globe, with experience of a number of European-funded
projects and consequent contacts among media researchers across Europe.
Jenny Harding specializes in cultural studies of homelessness and has
developed collaborative research and teaching initiatives in oral
history across the university, as well as working on projects that
involve local communities and community organizations.
Research projects
2007: Paul Trevor community photographs
archive Garment worker archive Creativity, Culture and Democracy: the
Role of Radio (7-nation group applying under the EU’s Framework
Programme 7 for funding) Civil Society Media consortium (Tokyo-based)
applying for funding for a study of community media policy Council of
Europe report on community, local, minority and social media in Europe
Conferences
2007: ‘Finding and Funding Voices: the inner city experience’, A one-day international colloquium on community media. Speakers included: Steve Buckley (President of AMARC, World Association of Community Broadcasters); Caroline Mitchell University of Sunderland); Pieter de Wit (Director, OLON, Dutch Federation of Local Public Broadcasters); Patrice Berger (French Radio Research Network, GRER, and community broadcaster); Phil Korbel (Director, Radio Regen, Manchester); and the London-based community media consultant Donald McTernan.
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