London Metropolitan University (London Met) has made an important
intervention in the community media field by its creation of a new post of
Lecturer/Senior Lecturer in Community Media in the Media, Information and
Communications Area in the Department of Applied Social Sciences. Peter
Lewis and Salvatore Scifo have been appointed to job-share the post,
starting in May, and their combination of experience, skills and
international contacts are likely to have an impact across the university,
in the North London communities where the North Campus at London Met is
based, and in the UK as a whole.
Community radio is currently under scrutiny by the UK and European
Parliaments, and the recent rapid expansion of the sector has created both
problems and opportunities in areas such as training, policy monitoring and
impact assessment. An international symposium, to be held at London Met in
September, will launch the project and highlight these issues. Further
details will be posted shortly.
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