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.

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

(2008, forthcoming) ‘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.

(2008, forthcoming) Radio Journalism with Andrew Crisell, published by Sage.

Published book chapters

(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.

(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.

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

(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.