School of Culture and Creative Arts

Prof Gillian Doyle

Portrait of Gillian Doyle
  • Professor of Media Economics (Theatre, Film and Television Studies)

email: Gillian.Doyle@glasgow.ac.uk


Research Interests

Gillian Doyle is Director of the Centre for Cultural Policy Research.  She is an economist with special interest in media and cultural industries.  Gillian worked as a media equities analyst for a leading Swiss bank and in financial journalism prior to setting up the UK’s first Masters programme in the area of media management and economics.  She now leads the MSc in Media Management at the University of Glasgow and is one of the main contributors to the core teaching in this subject area.

Gillian’s research interests are related to media economics and media and cultural policy. Her work on the economics of mass media and on media ownership has been translated and published in several languages.  She is on the editorial boards of the Journal of Media Economics, the International Journal on Media Management, Journalism: Theory Practice Criticism and of Media and Cultural Politics.

Gillian is Principal Investigator on 'Multi-platform media and the digital challenge: Strategy, Distribution and Policy' a major research project on economic and policy aspects of digital media convergence funded by the ESRC (2012-2015). Gillian is also Principal Investigator on an AHRC-funded project (2012-2014) to carry out research on the history of the UK Film Council and to analyse the policy implications of its closure for film in the digital era. 

She was elected President of the Association for Cultural Economics International  (ACEI) – an association of scholars, policy makers, arts practitioners and others interested in economic aspects of cultural enterprises and industries – from 2008 - 2010.  She has also been Treasurer and Membership Secretary of MeCCSA - the UK-wide trade association for HE professionals in media, communication and cultural studies - and served on the organisation's Executive Committee (by election) from 2003 - 2010.

Gillian is currently acting as a supervisor on a EU-funded study on 'European Union competencies in respect of media pluralism and media freedom' being produced by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute in Florence.  She served as a member of the quality control team for a major EU-funded research study on the use of Media Pluralism Indicators in member states in 2009.  She has also worked as a consultant for the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Media Concentrations and Pluralism (MM-CM).

Since 2004, Gillian has been Visiting Professor of Media Economics at the Institute for Media and Communications (IMK), University of Oslo.

In 2011, she taught at the University of Paris 1 Sorbonne as part of the Master 2 Droit, économie et gestion de l'audiovisuel.

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Number of items: 23.

2013

Doyle, G. (2013) Economic and cultural aspects of media ownership. In: Throsby, D. and Ginsburgh, V.A. (eds.) Handbook of the Economics of Art and Culture. North Holland, Amsterdam, The Netherlands, pp. 357-377. ISBN 9780444537768 (In Press)

Doyle, G. (2013) Innovation in use of digital infrastructures: TV scheduling strategies and reflections on public policy. In: Storsul, T. and Krumsvik, A. (eds.) Media Innovations. Nordicom, Gothenburg, Sweden, pp. 111-125.

Doyle, G. (2013) Private television in the United Kingdon: a story of ownership integration. In: Donders, K., Pauwels, C. and Loisen, J. (eds.) Private Television in Western Europe: Content, Markets and Policies. Palgrave MacMillan, London, UK, pp. 70-84. ISBN 9781137017543

Doyle, G. (2013) Understanding Media Economics. SAGE, London, UK. ISBN 9781412930765

2012

Doyle, G. (2012) Audio Visual Services: International Trade and Cultural Policy. ADBI Working Paper 355. Working Paper. Asian Development Bank Institute, Tokyo, Japan.

Doyle, G. (2012) Audiovisual economics: Audiovisual markets in the European Union. Quaderns del CAC, 15 (38). pp. 15-23. ISSN 1138-9761

2011

Doyle, G. (2011) Media economics and regulation. In: Towse, R. (ed.) Handbook of Cultural Economics (2nd ed). Edward Elgar Publishing, Cheltenham, pp. 273-281. ISBN 9781848448872

Doyle, G. (2011) Magazines. In: Cameron, S. (ed.) Handbook on the Economics of Leisure. Edward Elgar, Cheltenham, UK, pp. 720-751. ISBN 9781848444041

2010

Doyle, G. (2010) From television to multi-platform: less from more or more for less? Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 16 (4). pp. 431-449. ISSN 1354-8565 (doi:10.1177/1354856510375145)

Doyle, G. (2010) Why culture attracts and resists economic analysis. Journal of Cultural Economics, 34 (4). ISSN 0885-2545 (doi:10.1007/s10824-010-9128-9)

Doyle, G. (2010) Media economics. In: Free, R.C. (ed.) 21st Century Economics: A Reference Handbook. Series: 21st century reference series . Sage, Thousand Oaks, CA, USA, pp. 827-836. ISBN 9781412961424

Doyle, G., and Paterson, R. (2010) Die produktion unabhängigen fersehens in Grossbritannien. Öffentliche politik, kreativität und wachstum. In: Lantzsch, K., Altmeppen , K.D. and Will, A. (eds.) Handbuch Unterhaltungsproduktion : Beschaffung und Produktion von Fernsehunterhaltung. Series: The business of entertainment: medien, märkte, management . VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, Wiesbaden, Germany, pp. 34-66. ISBN 9783531160016

2008

Doyle, G. (2008) Introduduzione all'economia dei media. Hoepli, Milan, Italy. ISBN 9788820341183

Doyle, G., and Paterson, R. (2008) Public policy and independent television production in the UK. Journal of Media Business Studies, 5 (3). pp. 17-33. ISSN 1652-2354

2007

Doyle, G. (2007) Undermining media diversity: inaction on media concentrations and pluralism in the EU. European Studies: A Journal of European Culture, History and Politics, 24 . pp. 135-156. ISSN 1568-1858

2006

Doyle, G. (2006) Managing global expansion of media products and brands: A case study of FHM. International Journal on Media Management, 8 (3). pp. 105-115. ISSN 1424-1277 (doi:10.1207/s14241250ijmm0803_1)

Doyle, G. (2006) Financial news journalism: a post-Enron analysis of approaches towards economic and financial news production in the UK. Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, 7 (4). pp. 433-452. ISSN 1464-8849 (doi:10.1177/1464884906068361)

Doyle, G., (Ed.) (2006) The economics of the mass media. Series: The international library of critical writings in economics. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISBN 9781858988115

Doyle, G. (2006) Structure and development of media ownership in Europe. In: Heinrich, J. and Kopper, G.G. (eds.) Media Economics in Europe. Series: Informationskultur in Europa (4). Vistas, Berlin, Germany, pp. 121-138. ISBN 9783891584408

Doyle, G., and Frith, S. (2006) Methodological approaches in media management and media economics research. In: Albarran, A.B., Chan-Olmsted, S.M. and Wirth, M.O. (eds.) Handbook of Media Management and Economics. Lawrence Erlbaum Associates, Mahwah, USA, pp. 551-570. ISBN 9780805850031

2005

Doyle, G., and Vick, D.W. (2005) The communications act 2003: a new regulatory framework in the UK. Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New Media Technologies, 11 (3). pp. 75-94. ISSN 1354-8565 (doi:10.1177/135485650501100306)

2002

Doyle, G. (2002) Media Ownership: The Economics and Politics of Convergence and Concentration in the UK and European Media. Sage Publications. ISBN 0761966811

Doyle, G. (2002) Understanding Media Economics. Sage Publications. ISBN 076196875X

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Recent Awards:

2012-15: Principal Investigator, ‘Multi-platform media and the digital challenge: strategy, distribution and policy’, ESRC Research Grant.

2012-14: Principal Investigator, ‘The UK Film Council: a case study of film policy in Transition’, AHRC Research Grant.

2012-16: Co-Investigator, Centre for Creativity, Regulation, Enterprise & Technology (CREATe), RCUK Centre for Copyright and New Business Models for the Creative Economy.

2011-12: Principal Investigator, ‘Audiovisual Trade and Cultural Policy’, OECD commission.

Administration 

  • School of Culture and Creative Arts Postgraduate Committee

External 

  • 2008-2010  President of the Association for Cultural Economics International  (ACEI) – an association of scholars, policy makers, arts practitioners and others interested in economic aspects of cultural enterprises and industries
  • 2003-2010 Treasurer and Membership Secretary of MeCCSA - the UK-wide trade association for HE professionals in media, communication and cultural studies - and served on the organisation's Executive Committee (by election)
  • Principal Investigator on 'Multi-platform Media and the Digital Challenge: Strategy, Distribution and Policy' a major research project on economic and policy aspects of digital media convergence funded by the ESRC (2012-2015)
  • Principal Investigator on 'The UK Film Council: A Case Study of Film Policy in Transition' a major research project funded by the AHRC on strategies of public support for film
  • Author of 'Audiovisual Services: International Trade and Cultural Policy' an expert study commissioned by the OECD in 2011
  • Supervisor on a EU-funded study on 'European Union competencies in respect of media pluralism and media freedom' being produced by the Centre for Media Pluralism and Media Freedom (CMPF) at the European University Institute in Florence.
  • Member of the quality control team for a major EU-funded research study on the use of Media Pluralism Indicators in member states
  • Consultant for the Council of Europe’s Committee of Experts on Media Concentrations and Pluralism (MM-CM)
  • Since 2004  Visiting Professor of Media Economics at the Institute for Media and Communications (IMK), University of Oslo
  • Editorial board of: the Journal of Media Economics, the International Journal on Media Management and  Media and Cultural Politics.
  • External Examiner for the MA in Media and Creative Enterprise at the University of Warwick