The Network in Action

Forthcoming events
Ongoing projects
Previous events
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The Network helps to promote radio studies through partnerships with organisations like the Radio Academy, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association and others (see links page).

Forthcoming events and activities

Ongoing projects

• The network runs an email discussion group, radio studies, with more than 300 radio teachers and researchers as members.
• With Intellect Books, the network jointly publishes The Radio Journal: International Studies in Broadcast and Audio Media, an academic, peer-reviewed publication covering the production, reception, texts and contexts of radio and audio media.
• It established the radio research database listing research into radio in Britain and beyond. All members are encouraged to enter their research details. The database is hosted by the British Universities Film and Video Council.

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Previous events and activities

• The Radio Conference, the Fourth Transnational Forum, 16-19 July 2007, Lincoln, UK.
  Following Sussex, Madison and Melbourne (see below) the Radio Studies Network organised the fourth Transnational Forum.
• Sounding Out 3, 7-9 September 2006, Sunderland.
  Radio Studies Network members are involved in this conference.
• The Radio Conference, Melbourne
  11-14 July 2005. Following the 2001: aRadiodyssey conference in the UK and the Madison conference in 2003, the RSN supported this transnational forum in Melbourne.
• The network's National Conference took place on Thursday 7th April 2005, Birmingham, in combination with the second annual Charles Parker Day.
• The network submitted a response to Ofcom's consultation on the future of radio.
• A number of RSN members were involved in the 5th International Congress of local, public and alternative radio and TV, Sevilla, 23-26 February 2005.
• International radio summer school. 26 July - 1 August 2004, Siena, Italy.
  The school combined the features of an international conference and a learning experience for students. Organised by the University of Siena in partnership with IREN and the Radio Studies Network.
• Radios, Services, Publics… La radio à quoi ça sert? (Radios, Programs, Audiences… Are you being served?) 1-3 April 2004, 2004, Bordeaux.
  Organised by the French Radio Research and Study Group, this was the inaugural meeting of the European international radio research network, IREN, with whom the Radio Studies network is collaborating.
• Together with the University of Wisconsin-Madison, the network organised The Radio Conference: A Transnational Forum, at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, USA, between July 28-31, 2003.
• The network organised the international conferences 2001: a Radiodyssey?, University of Sussex, Brighton, 19-20 July, 2001.
• It has contributed to conferences including: Radio Drama, Goldsmith's College; Radiocracy, Cardiff University 1999; AMCCS, Sheffield 1998; MeCCSA, Sheffield 1999; Radiocracy 2, South Africa, 2001.

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