Senior Lecturer, Head of Graduate School

Department of Film, Media & Journalism

University of Stirling

Stirling

FK9 4LA
Scotland

UK

Richard is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Film, Media & Journalism and the Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He is responsible for the SMRI masters programmes in Media Management and Media Research. He is currently the department’s Director of Research and Postgraduate Tutor overseeing the graduate research school. He is the department’s principal contact for the International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and an active member of its Media and Sport Section. Between 2003-05 he was a founding member and treasurer of the European Media Management Educators Association (EMMA).

His consultation with external organisations includes Ofcom on issues of media literacy, the BBC on the Open Archive project, The Research Centre for TV and Interactive Media on independent TV production, WIPO on creativity and copyright and the Broadcasting Standards Commission on men viewing violence.

He has wide experience as a peer reviewer for publishers and international journals including the Journal of Media History, Ethnic and Racial Studies, International Journal of Sports History, Journal of Media Management, Media, Culture, Society, Journal of Sports History, International   Review for the Sociology of Sport, European Journal of Sports Management.

In May 2008 he contributed to the programme ‘When the Seagull Follows the Trawler’ as part of BBC Radio 4’s Archive Hour on the relationship between sports stars and the press.

His two main areas of research are the relationship between the media and sport and issues relating to digital media, creativity and intellectual property rights. His principal publications are The Football Imagination: The Rise of Football Fanzine Culture (Ashgate: 1995); Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture (Pearson: 2000) with Raymond Boyle; Football in the New Media Age (Routledge: 2004) also with Raymond Boyle and Media Rights and Intellectual Property (EUP: 2005). The second edition of Power Play will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2009.

In 2007-08 he was on research leave conducting research on the history of sports broadcasting and running commentary interviewing many of the household names of BBC sport. Recent research awards include:

• AHRC Research Leave Scheme, ‘Behind the Mic: A Cultural and Oral History of Sports Commentary’ (2008) £29,125;
• British Academy small grant scheme, ‘Behind the Mic: A Cultural and Oral History of Sports Commentary’ (2007- 2009) £6500;
• AHRC Research Networks and Workshops, ‘Creativity and Regulation in the 21st Century’ (2006 – 2007) £12,126;
• Carnegie Trust: ‘Seymour Joly de Lotbiniere and the formative Years of Sports Commentary’ (2006 –2007) £1900.

Previously, he worked on the Broadcasting Standards Commission funded research Men Viewing Violence (1998).

He is director of the MSc in Media Management (full-time and by Online Learning) and the MSc in Media Research for which he coordinates all the modules. At undergraduate level he is course coordinator of FMS9AR New Media & Society and course coordinator of FMS9AN Sport, the Media & Popular Culture as well as contributing lectures and seminars on FMS911, FMS9A4 and FMS9A7. At postgraduate level he co-ordinates MMAPMR Media Rights and MMAPRM Research Methods on the MSc in Media Management.

He is the principal supervisor of four PhD students on topics ranging from Second Life, the media coverage of women in extreme sports, freedom of the press in Kuwait and learning competences in public relations. He also is also second supervisor for two PhDs in Sports Studies on broadcasting rights for sport and user-generated content in US sports websites.

He is a member of the University’s Research Directors Committee, International Sports Scholars Committee and the Admissions Progress and Awards Committee.