My PhD research focuses on audience participation in broadcast and online media. In particular, I’m looking at what makes Welsh-English bilinguals feel comfortable interacting with media content, and what puts them off. My work draws on the notion of a person’s willingness to communicate, a concept developed by McCroskey, MacIntyre and others. As a professional radio and web producer, I have a practical as well as academic interest in understanding how to encourage audiences to engage and interact with the content I produce.

SELECTED TALKS

2011 Promoting minority language use through ‘strongly participative’ media. 4th International Language in the Media Conference, University of Limerick.

2010 Language in the UK media (guest lecture). Queen Mary, University of London.

2010 Linguistic minorities and contemporary media opportunities in the United Kingdom. Multilingual Individuals Multilingual Societies, University of Hamburg.

2010 Opportunities for minority languages in contemporary British broadcast media (video presentation). Minority Languages in Europe: Successes and Challenges, University of Indiana.

2010 Interacting with the BBC: The maintenance of ‘authentic’ vs. ‘standard’ Welsh. Foundation for Endangered Languages XIV, University of Wales Trinity St David.

2010 Experiences of audience interaction by BBC network radio producers: Implications for endangered language media. Media Convergence and Linguistic Diversity, II Mercator Network International Conference, University of Aberystwyth.

2009 What Kids Want: Programming for the under 13s. Bookseller Conference, London.

2009 “Are we on the same page?” Journalistic and academic views of the BBC Voices website compared (co-presented with Will Turner). Third International Conference on the Linguistics of Contemporary English, University of London.

2008 Working in radio. Media Careers Event, University of Cambridge.