Prof Raymond Boyle
- Professor of Communications (Theatre Film and Television Studies)
telephone: 01413303812
email: Raymond.Boyle@glasgow.ac.uk
Research Interests
Raymond Boyle graduated in Media Studies and History from the University of Ulster and completed an MA by research in the School of Communications at Dublin City University. He then worked for three years in the Communication Studies Department at Glasgow Caledonian University before joining Stirling University in April 1993 where he was Head of Department between 1998–2001 and Vice Dean for Research in the Arts Faculty 2002- 2005. He moved to the CCPR in January 2007.
Current projects include examining the changing relationship between factual television and representations of the world of business and finance; the impact of digitisation on the sports media market and sports journalism and mapping the way that the 2012 London Olympics are being reported in the print media.
His profile across academic, funded research and consultancy includes work within the broad areas of cultural and media policy. In particular he has developed an international reputation for research in the area of media and sports, which has included work on various aspects related to media policy (such as the relationship between new media and sports content) as well as the relationship between sport and its wider cultural and economic impact on society.
He has acted (2010 and 2011) as an academic advisor to the Department of Business Innovation and Skills (BIS) on media and entrepreneurship issues and with the Byron Review (2008) into Children and New Technology, published by the Department of Children, Schools and Families/DCMS. Since 1998 he has been involved in a number of research and consultancy projects. These have been funded by the Broadcasting Standards Council (1998); the European Institute for the Media (1999, 2000); The Home Office (2001, 2002); The Scottish Parliament (2001); FIFA (2003) and most the DCMS (2005).
These projects have often been centred around policy and regulatory issues relating to the media.
2012
Boyle, R. and Kelly, L. (2012) The Television Entrepreneurs: Social Change and Public Understanding of Business, Ashgate Publishers.
Boyle, R. (2012) No longer the crown jewels of sport? Television, sport and national events in the UK, in Scherer, J. and Rowe, D. (eds.) Sport, Public Broadcasting, and Cultural Citizenship: Signal Lost? London: Routledge.
Boyle, R. (2012) Social Media Sport: Journalism, Public relations and Sport, in Krovel, R. and Roksvold, T. (eds.) Mediated Fan Culture, Oslo: Nordicom
2011
Boyle, R. and Haynes, R. (2011) Sport, the Media and Strategic Communications Management, in Trenberth, L. and Hassan, D. (eds.) Managing Sport Business, London: Routledge.
2010
Boyle, R and Whannel, G. Sport and the New Media: Editorial, Convergence: The International Journal of Research into New media Technologies, Vol 16 (3) 259 – 262.,
Principal Investigator on a 2 year AHRC-funded project entitled ‘Public Understanding of Business: Television, Representation and Entrepreneurship’ which began in January 2009.
This research looks at the role and impact of programmes such as The Apprentice and Dragons’ Den in shaping public attitudes to the role of entrepreneurship in society.
- Di Xu: Political Communication and Journalism in China.
- Tonia Lu: Rural Arts Policy in Scotland.
- Anthony Reynolds: The Gaming Audience.
- Andrew McWhirter: The Film Critic in the Digital Age.
- Piyumi Ranasinghe: Diasporic Identities and Television
- Steven Boyer: Discourses of "Casual" and "Hardcore" in Digital Games.
External Responsibilities
- Editorial board of the journal Media, Culture and Society.
- Founding member of the Media and Sport Section of the IAMCR
- Convenor of the SMCA, the Scottish-wide association representing higher education professionals working in media and communication areas
- Member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC
- Invited Professor of Olympism at the Centre for the Study of the Olympics (Barcelona, 2009)
Recent Talks and Presentations
2010: The Communications Policy landscape in the UK, invited talk, at the Cultural Industries seminar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture Ministry, Argentine government, Buenos Aires, 13 August.
2010: The Television Entrepreneurs, invited talk, at the Cultural Industries seminar, Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Culture Ministry, Argentine government, Buenos Aires, 12 August.
2010: Citizen Sport? Television, Sport and National Events in the UK, paper presented at IAMCR 2010, Braga, Portugal, 19 July, 2010.
2010: Sport, the BBC and Journalism in the Digital Age, Public lecture sponsored by O Jogo newspaper and University of Porto, Porto, 25 May, 2010.
When Football Meets Identity: The Case of Celtic FC and FC Barca, public lecture at the Olympic Museum, CEO-AUB, Barcelona, 13 October, 2009 http://olympicstudies.uab.es/eng/amplia.asp?id_home=87.
Sport and the Media in the UK, Plenary lecture at the University of Malaga Summer School, August, 2009.
2009: Representations of Entrepreneurship on the Small Screen: How Programmes such as The Apprentice Work to Normalise and Encourage Entrepreneurial Activity in Society. 4th European Conference of Entrepreneurship and Innovation, University of Antwerp, 10 September, 2009.
Presented a series of five talks on broadcasting policy and sports journalism at the Universities of Bergen and Oslo in October, 2008.
Game On or Game Over? Sports Content in the Digital Age, invited presentation at the industry conference Media and Sports: new rules of the Game, Secretariat General of Communication and Information, Athens, Greece, 7 May, 2008.
A Nation of Entrepreneurs? Television, Social Change and The Rise of the Entrepreneur, paper presented at Transforming Audiences conference, University of Westminster, London, 6 September, 2007.
Sports Journalism and Communication: Challenges and Opportunities in the Digital Age, Paper presented at the 2007 Asia Communication and Media Forum, Communication University of China, Beijing, September 2007.
The 2012 London Olympic Games: A comparative study of UK national and local press coverage 2005 – 2007, paper presented at the IAMCR, Media, Communication and Information conference in Paris, 23 July, 2007 (with Garry Whannel).
Reports
2007: Public Support for the Creative Industries in Scotland, A report prepared for the Centre for Cultural Policy Research/Scottish Arts Council seminar on ‘The Creative Industries in Scotland’, held at the Gilmorehill Centre, University of Glasgow, 30 April 2007 (with Lynne Hibberd and Maggie Magor).
2005: (with Matthew Hibberd) Review of current research on the impact of violent video games on children’s behaviour, Commissioned Report for the Prime Minister’s Office, submitted through the Department of Media, Culture and Sport and Department of Trade and Industry, March.
2003: Football, New Media and Community in the Digital Age, Commissioned research for the Centre for International Study of Sport, Neuchatel, Switzerland, as part of Joao Havelenge Scholarship.
Contributor with Philip Schlesinger and Maggie Magor, 2002, (both now CCPR members) to: The Police Perspective on Sex Offenders Orders: A preliminary review of policy and practice, Police Research Series paper 155, The Home Office.