Research Interests: Participatory media, social media, virtual spaces, new forms of public service media, internet safety, policy. Knowledge transfer (between industry and academia).
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 is now a researcher at the University of Westminster specialising in participatory and social media. Her current project examines public service virtual environments for children and adults (funded by the BBC and the Arts and Humanities Research Council). She is completing her PhD on the facilitation of public service participatory media and writing a book chapter on ‘Facilitating Creative Audiences: Sociable Media Theory and Practice’ for The Public in Public Service Media: RIPE, 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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