[cma-l] Government to fund social return standard

[Helen Manchester]

Just to reiterate Peter's point.  I have recently got some of my 
education masters students to conduct some research for our local 
community radio station.  They've conducted some questionnaires to find 
some quantitative data concerning audience, and have also done some 
qualitative interviews with volunteers to find out more about their 
experiences.

As a tutor it's great to have a 'real research' setting for students to 
be involved in, and I reckon the radio station will gain important data 
from the work that we've done too.

Helen

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On 7 May 2008, at 11:22, Peter Lewis wrote:

One suggestion to Julian Mellor and others in the same position is to
approach your nearest university or college, seek out interested
lecturers (not always media studies people) and see if, between you, you
can set up a project for students to do. It might be a survey
(psychology students?) or more useful qualitative research, involving
say focus groups (sociology, anthropology, geography etc). Or it might
have an arts angle (music etc).

This doesn't address the main point, but could help you locally.

Peter Lewis

Peter M. Lewis
Senior Lecturer in Community Media
Department of Applied Social Sciences
London Metropolitan University
&
Visiting Research Associate
Department of Media and Communications
London School of Economics

London Met: p.lewis at londonmet.ac.uk
http://www.londonmet.ac.uk/depts/dass/
http://www.communitymedia.eu/
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