Curriculum
Vitae
Areas of expertise
I specialise in radio and new media, and particularly in facilitating the
use of online
communications for community empowerment and development. I work
mainly freelance, in a wide range of roles, including as a project leader,
trainer, producer, researcher, journalist and writer.
Career history -
media work
2001-currently ~ Trainer
Women's Radio
Group
Designing and delivering short radio production training courses, mainly for
women, including at the Panjabi
Centre in Southall. Topics: interviewing, using portable recorders,
digital editing and making short radio programmes, plus using computers and the
internet as part of the skills needed for radio
production.
January 2006-currently ~ Initiator/Project Leader
Freelance for London
Link Radio
Editorial management, radio production, website management and
fundraising for various online and community radio projects:
~ Radio
1812 - December 2008
~ Refugee
Week Radio, annually since 2006
~ London
Literature Online, set up in 2007
1996-currently ~
Website
Design/Management
Various individuals, small businesses and charities
I design and manage websites, mainly html-based, for various clients (please
click
here for some examples). I also set up and maintain the
social networking sites for radio and community organisations including
Women's Radio Group.
1993-currently ~
Freelance Journalist/Radio Broadcaster
Radio: Features for BBC
Network Radio and World Service programmes including Kaleidoscope, Breakaway,
Outlook, Meridian, plus various community radio
stations.
Print journalism/writing:
Features for various publications including The Independent, The
Bookseller, Geographical Magazine, Times Educational
Supplement, The Radio Magazine, ACP-Courier.
(Please click here for
examples).
May-October 2007 ~ Researcher
BBC Research & Innovation
Carrying out information research/market analysis for a collaborative
project to develop large-scale digital archive solutions, in which the BBC
is a partner.
May-Oct 2006 ~ Initiator/Project Leader
Women's Radio
Group
Project management, training, website and audio production for the Desi
Radio Eco Team project, which I set up in partnership with Global
Action Plan and The
Panjabi Centre.
2005 ~ Project Co-ordinator/Producer
Hillwood Resource Centre (Age Concern Camden)
Recording, editing and project managing the collection of reminiscences,
and the production of a CD and booklet, as part of a project for the
celebration of the 60th anniversary of VE Day.
2005 ~ Project Co-ordinator/Producer
Jellicoe-Neville
Performing Arts
Website design and management, recording and CD production, publicity and
marketing support for this Camden-based community arts organisation.
April-June 2003 ~ Trainer
Slough Young People's
Centre
Training young migrants in radio production and producing a radio
programme, Radio Roma, for the short-term radio station Radio
Underdog. July-August 2003 ~ Producer/Editorial
Manager
Women's Radio
Group
Managing trainees to produce a weekly arts magazine
programme, Expression!, for broadcast on Sound
Radio community radio station in Hackney, East London. 2003-2005 ~ Project
co-ordinator and trainer
Women's Radio
Group for Camden
Community Radio
Project management, training and editorial guidance for this online
community radio group during its early development. 2002
and 2004 ~ Project Manager/Producer
Women's Radio
Group for Riverside
FM
Radio production, website design/maintenance and project management for
this short-term community radio station (broadcasting July 2002 and July
2004). 2000-2002 ~ Workshop leader
Education Action International
Leading workshops on using the web for human rights
advocacy as part of 3 courses for refugees in London. March-April
2001 ~ Project Manager/Producer
Women's Radio
Group for Sierra Leone Women's Forum (UK)
Project management and production of an audio
documentary, 'Sierra Leone at 40: Looking Through her Eyes', to
mark 40 years of independence for Sierra Leone. 2000
~ Trainer
UNHCR in the UK
Trainer for the Refugees
Online short training courses in website production
and online journalism for refugee journalists and leaders of
community organisations. 1999 ~ Online Tutor
BBC Mentor Project
Tutoring
the online project group for this
partnership project between the BBC and Hammersmith & West London
College. 1998-1999 ~ Project
Co-ordinator
BBC Broadcast Equality Unit
I was the project co-ordinator for the launch of the BBC Diversity
Database of contributors.
May-Jun 1997 ~
Writer
ON LINE/More Colour
in the Media
Writing two handbooks on promoting diversity in the media for the ON LINE/More Colour
in the Media transnational project based in Utrecht, Holland
1993-1994 ~ Researcher/Writer
London Arts Board
Researching arts broadcasting in London and producing the Directory of
Arts Broadcasting for London, which provided information and support
for artists and arts groups when contacting the media.
1991-1993 ~
Freelance Radio Broadcaster
Part-time broadcaster at the BBC Travel Centre, London.
Other work Sept
1995-Dec 2006 ~ Freelance Researcher
SMRC ChildWise
Interviewing, analysis and reporting on research projects in the field of
children and media, including work on the annual ChildWise
Monitor Report 1988-91 ~ Research Executive
BBC Broadcasting Research
Qualitative and quantitative researcher, Special Projects, including the BBC
Survey of Listening and Viewing in Schools.
1983-88 ~ Market Researcher:
Freelance quantitative market researcher for the British Market Research
Bureau (BMRB), for Mass Observation and for Marplan.
1972-1983 ~ Teacher
I taught in London, Salford and Berlin: as a primary class teacher, and as
a French teacher at lower Secondary level.
Interests
My main interests are photography, film, gardening, music, 'slow'
travel and cultural exchange.
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