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Dr Janey Gordon

Principal Lecturer in Journalism and Communications

Janey Gordon in a scubadiving suit

I specialise in Radio and I started the University's community radio station Radio LaB 97.1fm which is now into its second licence.

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 has concerned Community radio in both the UK and Australia. This was funded by the British Academy and led to a commission from the BBC World Service Trust concerning community radio legislation in Georgia. 

External Roles

  • MeCCSA Executive
  • Radio Studies Network Steering Group

Publications

Recent publications include:

  • Gordon, Janey (2015) "The economic tensions faced by community radio broadcasters", chapter 21 in Atton, Chris (ed) The Routledge Companion to Alternative and Community Media, Routledge, London
  •  Gordon, Janey; Rowinski, Paul; Stewart, Gavin (editors) (2013) Br(e)aking the News: Journalism, Politics and New Media, Peter Lang Ltd, Oxford.
  • 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