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Lawrie Hallett
Dr Lawrie Hallett is a senior lecturer in radio and journalism at the University of Bedfordshire. A former radio journalist, presenter and programme producer at various stations in the United Kingdom as well as elsewhere in Europe, he went on to run a broadcast engineering and design company, before becoming a broadcast consultant specializing in technology and community-based broadcasting. Before moving into higher education, he was part of Ofcom’s Radio Team for several years, where he developed and implemented policies around community radio and digital audio broadcasting in particular. Alongside academic and research responsibilities at university, Lawrie continues to engage in professional and community practice. He is a trustee of his local community radio service in Norwich, Future Radio, and a director of the city’s not-for-profit small-scale DAB multiplex operator, Future Digital Norfolk Limited. A specialist industry journalist for over 30 years, and a long-standing evaluator for the Broadcast Authority of Ireland’s Sound and Vision Scheme, he continues to act as an industry consultant, for example, to the UK Community Media Association, where he has recently completed work, on behalf of the UK Government’s Department for Digital, Culture, Media and Sport (DCMS), in support of small-scale DAB development.
Contact: University of Bedfordshire, Park Square, Luton, LU1 3JU, UK.