Research into socio-economic and political influences on mediatised environments, mainly, but not exclusively through the medium of radio and the practices of journalism. Themes include democratisation and identity, citizenship and representation, as well as globalisation, technological advance and digital migration.

Papers given at international conferences

(1997) Teaching Media Practice: Education, Training Or 'Technicism', given at the media teaching conference at Royal Holloway College, University of London, July. Click the title to read the paper in Word format.

(2000) Taking on the Tabloids: A Rationale for the Teaching of Media Practice, given at the AMPE conference, Bournemouth, September. Click the title to read the paper in Word format.

(2001) Are Radio Audiences Choosing to Reject Greater Choice?, given at International Broadcasting Symposium, University of Manchester, May. Click the title to view the Power Point presentation.

(2001) The Politics of the Today Programme, given at the Radiodyssey conference of the Radio Studies Network, University of Sussex, Brighton, July. Click the title to view the Power Point presentation.

(2002) An Extraordinary Pirate: The Voice of Peace 1973-1993, given at the Visions conference, University of Central Lancashire, Preston, June. Click the title to view and hear the Power Point presentation.

(2003) Institutional polemic in current affairs broadcasting: political positioning in programme content and structures at Current Affairs – An Endangered Species, University of Bournemouth, November.

(2003) Case study: peer- and self-assessment in media production work groups at the AMPE conference, University of Sunderland, November.

(2004) Methodological issues in audience research at the Radio Studies Network conference, University of Luton, 29th January.

(2004) Knowing and reading audiences – epistemological issues in academic and practitioner audience research at the International Radio Summer School and Conference, University of Siena, Siena, Italy (www.radiouniversity.net), July.

(2006) The democratisation of the media through proliferation: new technologies, changes in regulation and community broadcasting at the Jornadas Internacionales de la Radio y la Television, Bilbao, January (http://www.kazetaritza.com/).

(2006) Mais, est-ce encore de la radio? Programmation et transmission en mutation en temps de crises, at La radiodiffusion aux tournants des siècles, Lyon, France, June. (http://radio2006.org). (2006) Regulation and democracy – PSB, commercial and participatory radio in the 20th and 21st centuries at The Medium with the Promising Future (Radio in Central and Eastern European Countries), Lublin, Poland, June. (2006) Radio: theorising the future/theorising in future (with French PowerPoint Radio : théoriser le futur / théoriser au futur). Keynote address at IREN conference, Quelles voix/voies pour le futur, Brussels, November. (2006) Regulation and democracy: representation of politics in the media – a comparative study, at the Politics and the Media conference, Sunderland, November. (2007) Reasons to be fearful? Radio’s ‘lost generation’ at The Radio Conference: a Transnational Forum, University of Lincoln, July. Also, member of ECREA Radio section panel debate The Future and Dynamics of Radio Research. (2007) Creativity, culture and democracy: the role of radio on GRER panel at AIERI/IAMCR conference, UNESCO, Paris, July. Also, member of panel discussion Les recherches sur la radio. ‘Television audience research in the United Kingdom’, at the first AudiTVMonde seminar, Paris, (June 2008) ‘Two digits to DAB? The development of digital radio in the United Kingdom’, at Sounding Out 4, University of Sunderland, (September 2008). ‘Digital radio in the United Kingdom: an advanced model’ at II Congreso de las Americas, Mexico City (October 2008). ‘Airing difference: speech radio in participatory democracy’ at ECREA conference, Barcelona (November 2008). Also, chaired panel on Greek and Scandinavian radio. ‘Radio studies: how Cinderella arrived late to the ball’, at MeCCSA conference, Bradford, (January 2009). ‘How Cinderella came late to the ball: the development of radio studies in the UK and Europe’, at The Radio Conference 2009: A Transnational Forum, (July 2009). ‘On with the quiet revolution: digital migration of radio broadcasting in the United Kingdom’, plenary paper at Radio Content in the Digital Age, ECREA Radio Research Section, Cyprus University of Technology, (October 2009). ‘Radio listening and radio research: essential synergies’, as elected Chair of Radio Research Section, ECREA, a welcome address to the Radio Content in the Digital Age conference, Cyprus, (October 2009). ‘Hot and cold media - or active and passive? Radio and Web 2.0 in today's global village’ (closing plenary paper), at GRER conference: Vers la Post-Radio, Paris, (November 2009). ‘Cornering the market: ownership and regulatory influences on diminishing pluralism in news provision on radio’, at MeCCSA conference, LSE, London, (January 2010). Keynote address at Erasmus Mundus Alumni conference, Bordeaux: ‘Balance and Bias in Journalism’, (March 2010). 'Radio and active media - towards a radio future', keynote address at Congresso Internacional: Pós Rádio: R@dio como media social?, (March 2010). 'Digital radio in the digital age, The challenge of digital migration a case study', keynote address at Radio and Society conference, Lublin, Poland (April 2010).

Journals

(2003) Radio Audience Research - Challenging the 'Gold Standard' in Cultural Trends,  published by the Policy Studies Institute of the University of Westminster, number 45.

(2004) Estimating audiences: sampling in television and radio audience research in Cultural Trends,  published by Taylor & Francis, number 49, June.

(2008) ‘La bande sonore de nos vies’ in Médiamorphoses, July, Paris: Institut national de l'audiovisuel.

(2008) ‘The development of digital radio in the United Kingdom’ in Revista ZER Bilbao: Universidad del País Vasco.

Authored books

(2004) Radio in Context published by Palgrave Macmillan.

(2007) Balance and Bias in Journalism: Representation, Regulation & Democracy published by Palgrave Macmillan. Read Sally Feldman's excellent review in the Times Higher.

(2009) Radio Journalism with Professor Andrew Crisell, published by Sage. Read Professor Tim Luckhurst's excellent review in the Times Higher.

Published book chapters

‘Radio: public service, commercialism and the paradox of competition’ in The Media (3rd edition), Albertazzi, D & Cobley, P (eds) (2009) London: Pearson.

‘Mais, est-ce encore de la radio? Programmation et transmission en mutation en temps de crise’, in Cheval, J. & Wuillème, B. (eds.) (2008) La radiodiffusion aux tournants des siècles, Lyon: Université Jean Moulin-Lyon 3, ISBN 978.2-916377-667, pages 45-51

‘Radio: theorising the future/theorising in future’, in Antoine, F (ed) (2009) Radios et recherches : quelles voies / voix pour le futur de la radio ? Louvain: University of Louvain Press.

‘Mais, est-ce encore de la radio? Programmation et transmission en mutation en temps de crise’ in La radiodiffusion aux tournants des siècles, Wuilleme, B (ed) (2008) Lyons: University Jean Moulin (this is the original version, written in French)

'The democratisation of the media through proliferation: new technologies, changes in regulation and community broadcasting' in Penafiel Saiz, C, Transformaciones de la Radio y la Television en Europa, Bilbao: Universidad Del Pais Vasco, ISBN 978-8498-60003-2 2007

(2007) Regulation and democracy: public service broadcasting, commercial competition and participatory radio in the xx and xxi centuries in Jedrzejewski, S (ed) The Medium with Promising Future, Lublin: Wydawnictwo.

(2006) News on Local Radio co-authored with Crisell, A, in Local Journalism and Local Media edited by Franklin, R, London: Routledge.

(2004) Radio Five Live: Extending Choice through 'Radio Bloke'? in Crisell, A (ed) More than a Music Box: Radio Cultures and Communities in a Multi-Media World, Oxford: Berghahn.

(2003) Are Radio Audiences Choosing to Reject Greater Choice? in Ralph, S, Lees, C and Manchester, H (eds) Diversity or Anarchy?, Luton: University of Luton Press.  Click above for more information.