Senior Lecturer, Deputy Head of Department

Department of Film, Media & Journalism

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK

Matthew is Director of the MSc in Public Relations by Online Learning, and has teaching responsibilities both on the MSc in Media Management and with supervising PhD students. He is Professor of Communication Theory at the Libera Università Internazionale per gli Studi Sociali (LUISS) and is Professor of Journalism at the Interdisciplinary Centre for Social Communications (CICS), Pontifical Gregorian University, both in Rome.

Matthew is lead investigator on a UKIERI-funded Research Award programme investigating climate change communications in India and the UK, run in cooperation with the Centre of Media Studies (CMS), Delhi. This project is due to start in April 2009. He also holds a Carnegie Trust for the Universities of Scotland-funded award examining climate change communications.

Matthew is a Fellow of the College of Teachers in London (FCollT) and is the Scottish Board Member of the Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV).

He is co-investigator on a major Flanders Research Council-funded project examining media and participation. Matthew is co-director of the MSc in Media Management (Vietnam) teaching project which was introduced in October 2008. This project is funded by the Prime Minister's Initiative for International Education 2 scheme (PMI2) and is run in cooperation with Danang University, College of Economics.

His book Il grande viaggio della BBC: storia del servizio pubblico britannico dagli anni Venti al digitale was published in 2006, launching the Italian public service broadcaster RAI’s new book series, Zone. His new book The Media in Italy was published by the Open University Press in 2008. Matthew is co-author of Mediated Access: Broadcasting and Democratic Participation in the Age of Mediated Politics (University of Luton Press, 2003), La ricerca sull’ audience dei media (Hoepli, 2007) and is also co-editor of From Grierson to the Docu-Soap: Breaking the Boundaries (University of Luton Press, 2000).

Matthew is co-author of the following reports: the Broadcasting Standards Commission-funded Consenting Adults? (2000); The corporate body funded Scottish Parliament: A Communications Audit (2002); the HWWA/IAI-funded Competition, Cultural Variety and Global Governance: the Case of the UK Audiovisual System (2004); and the DTI/DCMS-funded Review of research on the impact of violent computer games on young people (2005).  

Selected Publications (all single-authored unless otherwise stated)
Authored Books:

1. Co-author with B. McNair and P.R. Schlesinger Mediated Access. (University of Luton, 2003)

2. Il grande viaggio della BBC: Il servizio pubblico radiotelevisivo dagli anni Venti all’era digitale. (RAI/ERI. Rome, 2006).

3. Co-author with De Blasio, E., Gili, G., and Sorice, M. (2007) La ricerca sull’ audience dei media. Milan: Hoepli.

4. The  Media in Italy (2008). Milton Keynes: Open University Press.

Edited Books

5. Co-editor with K.J. Izod and R. Kilborn From Grierson to the Docu-Soap: Breaking the Boundaries (University of Luton Press, 2000).

Academic Journal Articles and Book Chapters (selected)

6.  ‘Tv e comunicazione di pubblica utilità. Il caso britannico BBC Parliament;, Rivista Italiana di Comunicazione Pubblica, II (6), luglio-settembre 2000. Oggi consultabile anche sul sito: www.infocivica.it

7. ‘The Reform of Public Service Broadcasting in Italy’ (Media, Culture and Society, 2/2001).
8. ‘Public Service Broadcasting in Italy: Historical Trends and Future Prospects’ (Modern Italy, 2/2001).

9. With R. Kilborn and R. Boyle ‘The rise of the docusoap: the case of Vets in Practice’ (Screen, 4/2001).

10. With B. McNair and P.R. Schlesinger ‘Public Access Broadcasting and Democratic Participation in the Age of Mediated Politics’, in Journalism Studies (2002).

11. ‘E-participation, broadcasting and democracy in the UK’, in Convergence (Spring 2003).

12. ‘Lo sviluppo della TV britannica, 1936-1976’, in Giornale di storia contemporanea (2/2003).

13. ‘Italian Democracy Gone Mad? The Privatisation of Public Service Broadcasting in Italy’ in Trends in Communication (2004/1).

14. ‘Media Pluralism and Conflicts of Interest in Italy’ in West European Politics (September, 2007).

15.  ‘Media Policy in Italy’ in David Ward and Anthony McNicholas (eds) Television and public policy: change and continuity in an era of liberalization. New Jersey: Lawrence Erlbaum Associates (2007).

16. With Sorrentino, C. (2007) ‘The Media in Italy’, in Jo Bardoel and Leen Dhaenens (eds) Western Broadcasting in the 21st Century. Mouton De Gruyter: Berlin and New York.

Reports:

17. Co-author with R. Kilborn, B. McNair, S. Marriott and P. R. Schlesinger Consenting Adults? (Broadcasting Standards Commission, London, 2000).

18. Co-author with P. R. Schlesinger, W. Dinan and R. Boyle (2002) Scottish Parliament: A Communications Audit. Edinburgh: The Corporate Body, Scottish Parliament: Confidential Report.

19. With G. Doyle (2003) Competition, Cultural Variety and Global Governance: the Case of the UK Audiovisual System. HWWA/IAI: Hamburg and Rome.

20. With R. Boyle (2005) Review of research on the impact of violent computer games on young people. Her Majesty’s Department of Trade and Industry/Department of Culture, Media and Sport, London.

Matthew was an Italian Government Long-Term Scholar at the University of Bologna in 1994-1995, and in recent years has been invited to give guest lectures at a number of European universities including the Hellenic American University, Athens, the University of Lugano (USI), Switzerland, and the University of Rome, La Sapienza.

Matthew has also given a number of keynote speeches in recent years, including to the Public Relations Council of India (PRCI) in March and November 2007 and the World Environment Foundation and Association of Business Communicators, India, in 2008.

He attended academic panel meetings as part of the recent UK Government-funded Byron Review on Children and New Technology. Matthew was awarded 2008 Best International Business Communications Trainer by the Public Relations Council of India and also the 2008 Global Business Communicator Award from the Association of Business Communicators, India.