Professors Ivor Gaber and
Jon Silverman
offer a range of consultancy/training and analysis on their specialist
subject areas – politics, media, criminal justice and international
law and tribunals.
Professor Jon Silverman provides regular analysis for a range of media outlets, notably BBC Radio and News Interactive (latest analysis piece on rehabilitation of offenders in the BBC Hi magazine – posted March 9, 2010). He writes regularly for the public policy journal, Policy Review (www.policyreview.co.uk), and periodically for the Home Office staff magazine, Inside Track, on the work of the Home Office.
Professor Silverman
presented (and Professor Gaber
produced ) a documentary on gangs for BBC Radio 4 (transmitted
on 23.2.09, repeated on 29.3.09).
Professor Ivor Gaber
is an internationally recognized expert in the area of media and
politics.
In the UK General Election 2010 he will be a studio guest for the BBC
World Service analysing the results as they come in. He is regularly
invited to comment on current news events and appears regularly on a
range of domestic and international broadcasters. In the UK he is a
regular contributor to The Westminster Hour on BBC’s Radio 4, Newsnight
on BBC 2, 5Live, the BBC World Service a range of BBC and Commercial
local broadcasters, ITN, GMTV, Sky News and News on 5. Internationally
he is invited to comment by CNN, Bloomberg TV, CNBC, Al Jazeera, Reuters
and broadcasters in Austria, Spain, Switzerland, Croatia, Canada and
Ukraine.
Professor Silverman is consultant/mentor for the BBC World Service Trust, which is providing daily coverage of the Charles Taylor trial in The Hague to audiences in Sierra Leone and Liberia. He has provided training for journalists in the Central African Republic (2007) on behalf of the International Criminal Court and was consulted by the Special Tribunal for Lebanon (2009) about its media strategy.
He is media consultant( and trustee) of Fair Trials International, a registered charity which provides legal advice to those arrested outside their own legal jurisdiction.
He has been consulted by Bedfordshire Police about confidence boosting strategies amongst BME communities.
Professor Gaber is an independent editorial advisor to the BBC Trust. He is vice chair of the Communications Section of UNESCO’S UK National Commission. He represents the UK on the International Programme for Communication Development.
He is a trustee of the National Education Trust, is on the Advisory Council of the Hansard Society for Parliamentary Government and sits on the board of Tribune magazine.
Professors Gaber and Silverman offer bespoke media training. Examples: training for selected staff at NSPCC (9.6.09) ahead of a major report on child trafficking; and Fair Trials International ( 6.4.10) on media handling.
Professor Gaber
has designed and run media coaching and training workshops for a wide
range of public sector organizations including the Economic and Social
Research Council, the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, the Department for
Innovation, Universities and Skills and a range of London local
authorities.
