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 Radio Studies Network chair
Steve is a Senior Lecturer in Communications Technology at the Institute of Communication Studies, University of Leeds
His research interests are in the implications of new communications
technologies and the relationships between technological changes and
social factors, in particular the role of media and technology policy.
He has studied the emergence of digital broadcasting, including new
radio technologies, and is a member of Drace, the Digital Radio Cultures in Europe research group.
He is also on the editorial board of two journals, the Journal of Radio and Audio Media and the International Journal of Digital Television.
s.e.lax@leeds.ac.uk
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 Janey Gordon is a Principal
Lecturer in the School of Creative Arts, Technology and Design; Media Undergraduate Field Chair and Associate and Fellow for
the Centre of Excellence in Teaching and Learning at the University of Bedfordshire. She teaches radio broadcasting and her research interests
and publications are in the areas of community radio, mobile phones and media
pedagogy.
She has a background as a professional radio broadcaster and
started in radio as a BBC studio manager before going on to produce in schools
radio and then into BBC local radio. Her book “The RSL, Ultra-local Radio” (ULP) is used at both
undergraduate and postgraduate level and came about from working with the
students on the University radio station, Luton FM, which Janey organises. Her recent radio research, comparing Australian and UK community radio
stations was funded by the British Academy. The resulting first paper
may be accessed at www.cbonline.org.au
She is the editor of Notions of Community. A Collection of Community Media Debates and Dilemmas (Peter Lang, 2009).
janey.gordon@beds.ac.uk
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 Peter Lewis is a Senior Lecturer in Community Media in the Department of Applied
Social Sciences at London Metropolitan University, a Visiting Research Associate in
the Department of Media and Communications at the London School of Economics, and
Visiting Professor in Radio at the University of Sunderland. He has been involved in several
EU projects and is currently a member of the evaluation team for Crosstalk,
a community media training project funded under the EU's Lifelong Learning programme.
Crosstalk is a successor to META-Europe and earlier projects, discussed in
From the Margins to the Cutting Edge - Community Media and
Empowerment (Hampton Press, 2006), co-authored with Susan Jones. He is Associate
Editor of
The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media
(Intellect Books). With Jerry Booth, he wrote The Invisible Medium:
Public, Commercial and Community Radio (Macmillan 1989). His recent
study of the Council of Europe, Promoting Social Cohesion: the role of community
media, can be accessed at the Council of Europe website.
p.lewis@londonmet.ac.uk
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 Eryl Price-Davies manages the Radio Studies list (with Richard Berry), a lively forum for teachers, researchers
and broadcasters active since 1998, including members from all over the
world with an interest in radio studies. His research interests include
community radio in a global context, and the teaching and learning of radio
studies.
erylp-d@ntlworld.com
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 Guy Starkey is Professor of Radio and Journalism at the University of Sunderland. His professional background is in radio presentation and the production of
magazine and sequence programmes. His publications include: Radio in Context (2004)
London: Palgrave; Balance and Bias in Journalism: Representation, Regulation &
Democracy (2007) London: Palgrave and Radio Journalism (with Professor Andrew Crisell,
2009) London: Sage. Guy is Head of the Media Department at Sunderland and Chair of the
Radio Research Section of the European Communications Research and Education Association,
(ECREA).
guy.starkey@sunderland.ac.uk
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 Deborah Wilson is Programme Leader for Journalism at the University of
Lincoln. Previously a full-time broadcaster with the BBC, she now
combines her teaching with work as a freelance broadcast journalist for
the Corporation and as a media trainer for a number of bodies from the
National Centre for Policing Excellence to the Islamic Foundation.
Deborah is an external examiner in radio and broadcast journalism and
is on Skillset's East Midlands Education Focus Group and the region's
committee of the Radio Academy. She is also an active member of the
Association for Journalism Education and the Broadcast Education
Association (US). Deborah is on the Advisory Board for Siren FM,
Lincoln's university-based community radio station, and her current
ADM-HEA funded research project is focusing on
developing civic journalism on the station.
debwilson@lincoln.ac.uk
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Eleanor is a research student in the