Principal Lecturer in Journalism and Communications
I specialise in Radio and I am the project co-ordinator for the University’s community radio station Radio LaB 97.1fm.
I have 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.
If I am not in a radio studio, I am most often found somewhere underwater, as I am a keen scuba diver and a PADI Master Instructor. I am particularly fond of sharks.
Qualifications
- PhD University of Bedfordshire
- MA City University
Teaching Expertise
- Radio broadcasting
- I am a Senior teaching fellow and I have been a member and now fellow of the Higher Education Academy since 2002.
Research Interests
- Community Radio
- Mobile Phones
- Media Pedagogy
Research Projects
My project work concerns Community radio in Australia and UK and this was funded by the British Academy. This work led to a commission from the BBC World Service Trust concerning community radio legislation in Georgia.
External Roles
Publications
Recent publications include:
- Gordon, Janey (editor) (2012) Community Radio in the Twenty First Century, Peter Lang Publications, Oxford
- Gordon, Janey (editor) (2009) Notions of Community, A Collection of Community Media Debates and Dilemmas, Peter Lang Publications, Oxford.
- Gordon, Janey (2000), The RSL, Ultra Local Radio, Luton: ULP
- Gordon, Janey (2012, pending), “Ambient News and the Para iPhone Mojo” in Snickars, Pelle Vonderau, Patrick (eds) (2012) Moving Data. The iPhone and My Media, Columbia University Press, US
- “Community Radio Audience Research” in Matt Mollgaard (ed) Radio and Society, Cambridge Scholars Press. (2012)
- “Community Radio, Mobile Phones and the Electromagnetic Spectrum” in Gordon, Janey (ed) Community Radio in 21st Century, Peter Lang Publications (2012)
- “The role of university radio in the development of community radio stations – a history” in Community Radio in 21st Peter Lang Publications, (2012)
- “Community Radio, Funding and Ethics” The International Journal of Regional and Local Studies. Series 2, Vol3, No2, pp23-40
- “The Mobile Phone and the Public Sphere: Mobile Phone Usage in Three Critical Situations” Convergence, pp307-319, Vol13 (3)
- “A comparison of a sample of new British community radio stations with a parallel sample of established Australian community radio stations.” 3CMedia, Journal of Community, Citizen's and Third Sector Media and Communication.
- “The Cell Phone: An Artifact of Popular Culture and a Tool of the Public Sphere”, in Kavoori, Anandam and Arceneaux, Noah (editors) (2006) The Cell Phone Reader, Essays in Social Transformation, pp45-60, New York: Peter Lang Publishing
- Saklatvala, Robin and Gordon, Janey, “The B:Fest: Pedagogy and Public Spaces”, Networks, ADM-HEA
Contact
T: +44 (0)1582 489355
E: janey.gordon@beds.ac.uk
