Steering Group

Chair:
Tim Wall, University of Central England

Treasurer:
Debbie Wilson, University of Lincoln

Richard Berry, University of Sunderland
Kate Coyer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Andrew Dubber, University of Central England
Carole Fleming, Nottingham Trent University
Ken Garner, Glasgow Caledonian University
Janey Gordon, University of Bedfordshire
Stephen Lax, University of Leeds
Peter Lewis, LSE
Matthew Linfoot, University of Westminster
Winston Mano, University of Westminster
Caroline Mitchell, University of Sunderland
Eryl Price-Davies, Thames Valley University
Bryan Rudd, University of Lincoln
Salvatore Scifo, University of Westminster

The Radio Studies Network recognises the generous support of its founding members:
Cardiff University,
Farnborough College of Technology,
London School of Economics,
Staffordshire University,
University of Sunderland,
Thames Valley University,
University of Central England
as well as the support of The Radio Academy.

Richard Berry, University of Sunderland
Richard Berry is a Senior Lecturer in Radio at the University of Sunderland, lecturing on undergraduate and postgraduate programmes in radio production and radio history. Richard has a background in commercial radio journalism, BBC local radio and student radio. His research interests focus on radio and new technologies, including DAB, online platforms and convergence. He is also involved in developing applications for local community radio licences.

Kate Coyer, Goldsmiths College, University of London
Kate Coyer is a refugee from commercial broadcasting in Los Angeles. She recently completed her PhD at Goldsmiths College and is currently a post doctoral research fellow with Central European University, Budapest and Annenberg School for Communication, University of Pennsylvania, where she is researching community broadcasting policies across Europe. She has been producing radio and organising media campaigns since 1986 and her formative radio years were spent at her college radio station, KSDT San Diego, now sadly internet-only. Recent radio-related publications include an article in Global Media and Communications, and a chapter on low power FM radio in News Inc: Corporate Media Ownership and its Threat to Democracy (co-authored with Pete Tridish). You can read her journal account of a station-building project in Tanzania here.

Andrew Dubber, University of Central England
Andrew Dubber is a radio lecturer and Project Coordinator for the LSC/ESF funded 'Online Music Enterprise' research and training project at UCE Birmingham. Formerly head of radio at the Auckland University of Technology in New Zealand, his research interests include digital and online forms of radio, podcasting, deregulation and radio policy, Low Power FM radio and the music industry. His background is in the radio industry as a producer, presenter and engineer, and in the music industry as a record producer and label manager.

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Carole Fleming, Nottingham Trent University

Ken Garner, Glasgow Caledonian University

Janey Gordon, University of Luton
Janey Gordon is principal lecturer in radio and fellow for the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Befordshire in the School of Media, Art and Design. She has a background in broadcasting with BBC radio. Her research interests and publications are in the areas of small-scale and community radio, mobile communications and pedagogy within creative areas.

Stephen Lax, University of Leeds
Stephen Lax is a lecturer in communications technology at the Institute of Communications Studies, University of Leeds. His research includes a British Academy funded investigation of digital radio. He is a member of the Digital Radio Cultures in Europe research group. He is author of Beyond the Horizon: Communications Technologies Past Present and Future (University of Luton Press, 1997) and editor of Access Denied in the Information Age (Palgrave, 2001).

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Peter Lewis, LSE
Peter Lewis is a Research Fellow in the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, and Visiting Professor in Radio at Sunderland University. He is Scientific Co-ordinator of IREN (International Radio Research Network), an EU-funded project, and evaluation consultant for META-Europe, an EU-funded project to develop courses in training for community radio. He is co-editor of a book about previous, similar EU projects: From the Margins to the Cutting Edge: Community Media and Empowerment (Hampton Press, forthcoming) and author, with Jerry Booth, of The Invisible Medium: Public, Commercial and Community Radio (Macmillan 1989)

Matthew Linfoot, University of Westminster
Matthew Linfoot is Senior Lecturer in Radio and Course Leader in Radio Production at the University of Westminster. Matthew worked at the BBC as a presenter and producer for ten years before joining the University. His research interests include the history of BBC local radio and gay and lesbian radio.

Winston Mano, University of Westminster
Winston Mano is Course Leader and Senior Lecturer in the Department of Journalism and Mass Communication at the University of Westminster. The title of his doctoral thesis, studied at the University of Westminster and completed in 2004, was 'African National Radio and Everyday Life: The Case of Radio Zimbabwe and its Listeners'. He has published journal articles on radio in Zimbabwe. His current research interests include African Radio, Music as Journalism, Mass Media and Democracy and Development Communication.

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Caroline Mitchell, University of Sunderland

Eryl Price-Davies, Thames Valley University
Eryl Price-Davies is Director of Studies for Media in the Faculty of the Arts at Thames Valley University, London. He is also Principal Lecturer on the Radio Broadcasting pathway. His research interests include community radio in a global context, and the teaching and learning of radio-studies.

Bryan Rudd, University of Lincoln

Salvatore Scifo, London Metropolitan University
Salvatore Scifo is a Lecturer in Community Media at the Department of Applied Social Sciences (DASS), London Metropolitan University. A Ph.D candidate at the Communication and Media Research Institute (CAMRI), University of Westminster, London, he has been also Visiting Lecturer in Media Studies at the same university from 2005 to 2007. His research working title is "The evolution of the Community Radio in the United Kingdom from 1997". He is a member of the Editorial Board of the Westminster Papers in Communication and Culture (WPCC).

Tim Wall, University of Central England
Dr Tim Wall is Head of Academic Affairs in the Department of Media and Communication at UCE in Birmingham, and is Co-director of ''Urban Cultures: popular music, radio and the politics of the city' research group. His research includes investigations into on-line music radio and radio policy and regulation, as well as popular music culture. His recent book Studying Popular Music Culture (Arnold 2003) includes studies of music radio. He is a member of the International Advisory Board of the Radio Journal.

Debbie Wilson, University of Lincoln

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