School of Culture and Creative Arts

Dr Gillian Doyle

Portrait of Gillian Doyle
  • Senior Lecturer in Cultural and Media Policy (Theatre Film and Television Studies)

email: Gillian.Doyle@glasgow.ac.uk


Research Interests

Gillian Doyle is an economist with special interest in media and cultural industries. She 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.  Gillian is now Course Director of the MSc in Media Management at the University of Glasgow based in CCPR and a lead contributor 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: 18.

2012

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

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 1741-3001 (doi:10.1177/1464884906068361)

Doyle, G., ed. (2006) The economics of the mass media. Series: The international library of critical writings in economics, 199 . 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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Administration


  • School of Culture and Creative Arts Postgraduate Committee

External


  • Editorial board of: the Journal of Media Economics, the International Journal on Media Management and  Media and Cultural Politics.
  • 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)
  • 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