The Arts & Culture Unit and Resonance104.4fm are delighted to announce the second call for proposals for their joint initiative, Modulations: Broadcasting Research in the Arts, Humanities and Social Sciences. 

Modulations offers academic researchers the opportunity to communicate their research in a creative format to new and engaged audiences, through working with a dedicated expert team of expert communicators and producers. This initiative offers significant benefits for research institutions in terms of both research impact and the profile of their research cultures.

Modulations comprises three stages: training in broadcast media; co-production of a programme or a series of programmes on the researcher’s subject; and broadcast of the researcher’s programme on Resonance104.4fm. Following broadcast, the programme will be available as a podcast, for both researchers and their institutions and/or funding bodies to further disseminate. In addition, each programme will become part of the Resonance104.4fm archive, available online. 

Modulations looks to produce and broadcast all kinds of programme making, from discussion shows to documentaries and everything in-between, with a focus on how to best represent and communicate researchers’ work through the medium of speech-based programme-making. As such, it is actively seeking diversity in terms of both content and delivery. Programme lengths are either half an hour or one hour long; and are offered as either an individual programme, a three-part series, or as a six-part series. 

There are a limited number of available slots for initiative and therefore allocation is by competitive entry.

We are keen to receive proposals that seek to work creatively with the medium; proposals from first-time programme makers; and proposals from researchers interested in and committed to collaborative working practices. We are also interested in receiving proposals from researchers whose work makes use of media forms, such as music, film or television, or of oral histories. 

For further information on Modulations, please see attached PDF.