Dr Rakesh Kaushal

Lecturer: Journalism
Research: The Journalism Policy and Practice Research Group

Teaching Areas
I am currently teaching the level one module News Media and Society, the year two course Journalism and Society and the MA core module Journalism and Democracy.

I have taught on a number of different modules and schemes at the School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies, Cardiff University and the Centre for Mass Communication, University of Leicester. These have included Media History, Political Communication, Global Communication, Research Methods and Audience Studies amongst many others.

Research Interests
I am mainly interested in the political and policy dimensions of new communications technologies and the applications for citizens. I have recently completed a doctorate on the array of institutional, technological and ideological issues facing television as it undergoes change. This entailed examining government policy, the industrial shifts within broadcasting along with an empirical analysis of programming patterns. I am planning to continue investigating this area in the near future together with exploring the interface of new technologies with journalism.

Publications

'Switched on: The Transition to a Digital Universe' The Millstone, 2 (1) (2004) pp. 49 - 67.
UK Broadcasting in Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (eds.) The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, London and New York: Routledge, (2001) pp 52 - 56.
'Convergence' in Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (eds.) The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, London and New York: Routledge, (2001) pp 104 - 105.
'Regulation' in Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (eds.) The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, London and New York: Routledge, (2001) pp 378 - 383.
'Spectrum Scarcity' in Pearson, R. and Simpson, P. (eds.) The Critical Dictionary of Film and Television Theory, London and New York: Routledge, (2001) pp 416 - 417.
Book review of Axford, B. and Huggins, R. (eds.) New Media and Politics, in Journalism: Theory and Practise, (2001) 2 (3): pp 363 - 366.
Book review of Harper, C. And That's The Way It Will Be, in Journal of International Cultural Studies, (2001) 4 (1): 113-115.

Conferences attended
September, 2007: The Transnational Viewing Experience, Department of Television and Theatre Studies, University of Reading. I delivered the paper 'Imports: A comparison of 1984 and 2004'.
June 2005: MECCSA Postgraduate Conference, Cardiff University. I delivered the paper 'Choice, diversity or more of the same: comparing the programming patterns of 1984 and 2004'.
December 2003: Globalisation in Asia, St. John's University, Bangkok, Thailand. I delivered the paper 'witched on: The Transition to a Digital Universe'.
November 2003: BBC Digital Story-telling, BBC Wales, Cardiff.
May 2001: Wales Media Conference, St. David's Hall, Cardiff.
April, 2001: Reporting Japan, St. David's Hall, Cardiff.
November 1999: Radiocracy, Cardiff University. November 1999: Wales Media Conference, Cardiff University.

Other Experience
I am a regular review for the academic journal Information, Communication and Society. I also supervise MA dissertations.

Rakesh.Kaushal@uwe.ac.uk

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