Professor Philip Schlesinger
Professor Philip Schlesinger, BA Hons (Oxford), PhD (London), Dr HC (Aalborg), Dr HC (Oslo), FRSE, FRSA, AcSS
Professor in Cultural Policy and Academic Director, Centre for Cultural Policy Research
Philip Schlesinger was appointed to the University’s new Chair in Cultural Policy and became Academic Director of CCPR in January 2007. He was previously Professor of Film & Media Studies at the University of Stirling from 1989-2006, and founding Director of Stirling Media Research Institute. He has been Professor of Sociology at the University of Greenwich, a Nuffield Social Science Research Fellow, a Jean Monnet Fellow at the European University Institute of Florence, and has held the Queen Victoria Eugenia Chair of Doctoral Studies at the Complutense University of Madrid. He was a longstanding Visiting Professor of Media and Communication at the University of Oslo. He has also been a Visiting Professor at the University of Lugano and at the Institut d'Etudes Politiques in Toulouse and has been a Visiting Scholar at the Maison des Sciences de l’Homme in Paris.
Philip is joint editor of the academic journal Media, Culture and Society and also on the editorial advisory boards of many other journals. He is the author of Putting 'Reality' Together (2nd ed. 1987) and Media, State and Nation (1991) and is co-author of Televising ‘Terrorism' (1983), Women Viewing Violence (1992), Reporting Crime (1994) Open Scotland?(2001) and Mediated Access (2003).
He is a Fellow both of the Royal Society of Arts and of the Royal Society of Edinburgh and an Academician of the Academy of the Social Sciences. He is currently Chair of the Scottish Advisory Committee of Ofcom (the UK’s communications regulator) and a member of the Research and Knowledge Transfer Committee of the Scottish Funding Council (which funds Scottish higher and further education). He was previously on the boards of Scottish Screen and of TRC Media.
He has led a range of consultancy and research projects for the UK Government’s Know How Fund, the Broadcasting Standards Commission, the European Institute for the Media, the Home Office, the Scottish Parliament and the Scottish Arts Council.
Philip’s current research interests include cultural creativity and government policy; media theory and media policy; the European public sphere and ethnography and representations of exile. He is currently co-investigator of a two-year network project on 'Music and Dance - beyond copyright text', in the AHRC's 'Beyond Text: Performances, Sounds, Images, Objects' Programme.
Some recent publications
Books
2007: John Erik Fossum and Philip Schlesinger (eds) The European Union and the Public Sphere: A Communicative Space in the Making? Routledge studies on democratizing Europe, London and New York: Routledge.
2004: John Downing, Denis McQuail, Philip Schlesinger, and Ellen Wartella, (eds) The SAGE Handbook of Media Studies, Thousand Oaks, London: SAGE Publications.2003: Brian McNair, Matthew Hibberd, Philip Schlesinger, Mediated Access: Broadcasting and Democratic Participation in the Age of Mediated Politics, Luton: Luton University Press.2001: Philip Schlesinger, David Miller, William Dinan, Open Scotland? Journalists, Spin Doctors and Lobbyists, Edinburgh: Polygon.Articles
2009: ‘“For this relief much thanks.” Taxation, film policy and the UK government’, with Maggie Magor, Screen, 50 (3): 1-19.
2009: ‘Cultural and communications policy and the stateless nation’, Introduction to the Journal, Catalan Journal of Communication & Cultural Studies, 1(1): 9-14.
2009: ‘La creatividad como inspiradora de políticas públicas’, Cuadernos de Información, 24: 79-86.
2009: 'Creativity and the experts: New Labour, think tanks and the Policy Process', The International Journal of Press/Politics, 14 (3): 3-20.
2008: ‘Una tentación cosmopolita’, Cuadernos de Información y Comunicación, volume 13, pp.25-37
2008: 'Huellas de conocimiento en J. Martin Barbero', Revista Anthropos, No. 219, pp.104-112.
2008: 'Uma tentaçào cosmopolita', Matrizes no.2, pp.139-152.
2007: ‘Creativity: from discourse to doctrine?’ Screen, vol. 48, no.3, October, pp 377-387.
2007: ‘A Cosmopolitan Temptation’, European Journal of Communication, vol.22, no. 7, December, pp.413-426. 2006: ‘Exiles and ethnographers: An essay’, Social Science Information/Information sur les sciences sociales, vol. 45, no.1, March, pp. 53-77. 2006: ‘Is there a crisis in British journalism?’, Media, Culture & Society, vol. 28, no. 2, March, pp.343-351. 2006: (with Francois Foret), ‘Political Roof and Sacred Canopy: Religion and the EU constitution’, European Journal of Social Theory, vol.9, no.1, January, pp.59-81. 2004: ‘Essai sur l’ethnographie littéraire’, Questions de communication, no.6, pp.283-298. 2004: ‘The New Communications Agenda in Scotland’, Scottish Affairs, No. 47 Spring, pp.16-40. 2004: ‘W. G. Sebald and the Condition of Exile’, Theory, Culture & Society, vol. 21, no. 2, April 2004, pp. 43-67. 2004: ‘Do institutions matter for public service broadcasting?’, Ofcom Working Paper, September.2003: ‘The Babel of Europe? An Essay on Networks and Communicative Spaces’, ARENA Working Paper, No.22, November 2003, pp.25
Book chapters
2009: ‘The SNP, cultural policy and the idea of the “creative economy”’, pp.135-146 in Gerry Hassan (ed.) The Modern SNP: from protest to power, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2009: ‘A cosmopolitan temptation’, pp.67-78 in Inka Salovaara-Moring (ed.) Manufacturing Europe: Spaces of Democracy, Diversity and Communication, University of Gothenburg: Nordicom.
2008: ‘Exiles and Ethnographers: an Essay’, pp.73-92 in William Uricchio (ed.) We Europeans? Media, New Collectivities and Europe, Bristol: Intellect Books.
2008: 'Cosmopolitan temptations, communicative spaces and the European Union', pp.75-92 in David Hesmondhalgh and Jason Toynbee (eds) The Media and Social Theory, London and New York: Routledge.
2008: ‘Communications Policy’, pp.35-51 in Neil Blain and David Hutchison (eds) The Media in Scotland, Edinburgh: Edinburgh University Press.
2008: ‘Broadcasting policy and the Scottish Question, pp.155-161 ’ in Tim Gardham and David Levy (eds) The Price of Plurality: choice, diversity and broadcasting institutions in the digital age, Oxford: Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism.
2008: ‘The Babel of Europe?’, An Essay on Networks and Communicative Spaces’, pp.13-34 in A. F. Mathew (ed.) Some Essays on Post-Modernism, Globalization & the Media, Shela, Ahmedabad: MICA Publications.
2007: (with Francois Foret), ‘Le réligieux dans la légitimation de ‘l’Union européenne’ pp. 229-249 in Francois Foret (ed.) L’espace public européen a l’épreuve du réligieux, Brussels: Editions de L’Université de Bruxelles.
2007: 'Nacion y espacio communicativo', pp. 65-91 in Lila Luchessi and Maria Graciela Rodriguez (eds) Fronteras Globales: Culturas Politica y Medios de Communicacion, Buenos Aires: La Crujia Ediciones.2007: 'The Babel of Europe? An Essay on Networks and Communicative Spheres', pp. 253-272 in Dario Castiglione and Chris Longman (eds) The Language Question in Europe and diverst Societies: Political, Legal and Social Perspectives, Oxford and Portland, Oregon: Hart Publishing.2005: ‘Devolution and Communications Policy in Scotland’, pp.217-230 in W. L. Miller (ed.) Anglo-Scottish Relations from 1900 to Devolution and Beyond, Proceedings of the British Academy 128, Oxford: OUP/British Academy.2004: ‘On the irrelevance of the Cold War: Some reflections on the work of W. G. Sebald’, pp.108-118 in Ruud Janssens and Rob Kroes (eds) Post-Cold War Europe, Post-Cold War America, Amsterdam: VU University Press. 2003: ‘On literary ethnography: an essay’, pp. 105-118 in Gunnar Liestøl, Bjarne Skov and Ove Solum (eds), Mellom Mediene: Helge Rønning 60 År, Oslo: Unipubforlag.2002: ‘Media and belonging: the changing shape of political communication in the European Union’, pp.35-52 in Ulf Hedetoft and Mette Hjort (eds), The Postnational Self: Belonging and Identity, Minneapolis: The University of Minnesota Press.