Prof Tim Wall (Professor of Radio and Popular Music Studies)
Performance, Media and English, Birmingham School of Media
Tel: 0121 331 7265
Email: tim.wall@bcu.ac.uk
Tim’s main areas of research interest relate to popular music culture, the record industry and music radio. He is particularly interested in studies which combine political economy with cultural analysis, and which explore the implications of new technology.
Dr Paul Long (Reader in Media and Cultural History)
Performance, Media and English, Birmingham School of Media
Tel: 0121 331 5468
Email: paul.long@bcu.ac.uk
Paul’s research interests are in representations of class and locality as well as the historicisation of media and cultural theory. Paul is currently working on a Screen West Midlands-funded project (under their Digital Film Archive Fund) on the Philip Donnellan archive.
Andrew Dubber
Performance, Media and English, Birmingham School of Media
City North Campus, Baker, B314a
Tel: 0121 331 6642
Email: andrew.dubber@bcu.ac.uk
Andrew's research interests include digital media cultures, online music enterprise, and music as culture. He is currently working on the Rhythm Changes Jazz research project with Salford University).
Sam Coley
Performance, Media and English, Birmingham School of Media
City North Campus, Baker, B214
Tel: 0121 331 5469
Email: sam.coley@bcu.ac.uk
Sam is currently researching the uses of radio as an educational tool and is especially interested in the application of commercial production techniques to convey health related messages to people in isolated regions of third world countries.