At home with academic and author David Hendy
I had a meeting in Oxford with David Hendy today. He’s a Reader at the University of Westminster and the author of some very fine books about radio, including the highly acclaimed Life on Air: A History of Radio Four.
His book Radio in the Global Age (2000) was [...]
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Jazz musicians at the Conservatoire come face to face with Media students
I went to the Birmingham Conservatoire this evening. Now that they’re part of the same faculty as us, we’re finally allowed to do collaborative stuff. I was there with our Music Promotions and PR second year students, whose job it is to select an [...]
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Our glamorous campus. Photo courtesy Birmingham City University
Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research
Research Studentship worth £16,680
Popular music and radio in the digital age
The Birmingham Centre for Media & Cultural Research is a rapidly developing centre of research excellence based at Birmingham City University with a community of over thirty academics and research degree [...]
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I remember last time I became a reader…
I had a phone call from work this morning. They had a meeting of what they call their Conferment of Academic Titles Panel, and they have awarded me a Readership.
This is something that will make very little sense outside the context of a university, but it’s a promotion [...]
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Welcome to The Treehouse
This is, officially speaking, where I work. You might call it the Interactive Cultures Research Unit. Or simply Room 412. We call it The Treehouse.
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Late afternoon train to London
I took a train down to London to give an evening lecture to the Westminster MA in Music Business Management students. Nice day, with a lovely sunset – which is always worth taking the Chiltern line to Marylebone for.
Takes longer, but it’s cheaper – and on nice days, it’s far [...]
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Dave Harte and Jon Hickman in a feature about Birmingham City University’s MA Social Media course. I work with these guys – and no, they don’t normally throw balls of wool around or drink digital beer.
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