Research Interests: Participatory media, social media, virtual spaces, new forms of public service media, policy. Knowledge transfer (between industry and academia).
Current Position: Deputy Head of the Faculty of Media and Communications, Ravensbourne College of Design and Media Communications.
Responsibilities: Assisting with the strategy and management of the Faculty which specialises in vocational education for the media and creative industries. The College is emphasising participatory and converged media in addition to its previous reputation for training the broadcast industry.
Work history: After a long career in radio production at the BBC and as Managing Director of Soundbite Productions Limited, Lizzie returned to the BBC to launch and manage the Corporation’s social media on www.bbc.co.uk (1997-2002). She then worked across the BBC overseeing their internet safety initiatives (2003-2007). Producers in her teams were nominated for the Guardian Unlimited ‘Race in the Media Award’ and The Internet Service Provider’s Association award for safety on the internet.
Lizzie was a Senior Research Fellow at the University of Westminster from 2007-2009, specialising in participatory and social media. Working with Professor David Gauntlett and Professor Jeanette Steemers she researched public service virtual environments for children and adults (funded by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council). Lizzie completed her PhD on the facilitation of public service participatory media in June, 2009 and she is now writing a book chapter on ‘Facilitating Creative Audiences: Sociable Media Theory and Practice’ for The Public in Public Service Media: RIPE, 2009. Lizzie has been invited to contribute to a new EU consultation on the governance of public service broadcasting (September, 2009).
Lizzie was named ‘One of the 100 Innovators of the UK Internet Decade’ by NOP World and e-consultancy.com in October, 2004. She was elected a Fellow of the Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA) in 2007.
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