Kathy Walker is a Senior Lecturer in the School of Humanities and Social Sciencesand is Course Tutor for the BSc Hons Media and Communication Technologies degree. Her long-term research interests focus on the development of policy for new media technologies and she is particularly interested in the changing nature of the digital broadcasting environment and its impact on public service broadcasting. These issues are most recently explored in her chapter “Public service broadcasting and new distribution technologies: issues of equality, access and choice in the transactional television environment”, ” in Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Age, 2000, (eds.) S.Wyatt et al, London: Routledge.

Qualifications

• 1991 BSc Hons New Technology: Media and Communications. First class honours, Polytechnic of East London
• 1993 MA Communication Policy Studies, City University

Previous posts held

• 1993 Middlesex University - students from Fashion Institute of Technology New York

• Development and regulation of new communication technologies.
• Public Service Broadcasting

• IC113 ~ Technology, Innovation ad Culture: historical perspectives
• IC114 ~ Media, Technology and Social Change
• IC224 ~ Understanding News and the Newspaper Industry
• IC324 ~ Television: Technology, Policy and Power
• IC301D ~ Media and Communication Technologies Double Project
• CM323 ~ Media Law, Ethics and Regulation
• IC322 ~ Innovation and Regulation of ICTs
• MA001 ~ Globalisation, innovation and regulation
• ICT New Beginnings

All publications post 2001:

Media/art outputs

• 11 August 2002 ~ Radio Five Live. BBC Television Centre. Discussion with Kim Fletcher, of the Daily Telegraph, on the merits of degree courses in media studies and journalism

Key publications pre 2001:

• “Public service broadcasting and new distribution technologies: issues of equality, access and choice in the transactional television environment” in Technology and In/equality: Questioning the Information Age, 2000, (eds.) S.Wyatt et al, London: Routledge, 61-85

Member of the Campaign for Press and Broadcasting Freedom (CPBF) and Voice of the Listener and Viewer (VLV).