Raymond Boyle

Professor, Stirling Media Research Institute, University of Stirling, UK

Presentation Sports Journalism in the Promotional Age - Play the Game 2005 (Pdf.) Professor Raymond Boyle, BA Hons (Ulster), MA (Dublin City University), PhD (Stirling)

Professor of Communications and Co-director, Masters programme in Media Management

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.

His research interest in sport and the media has resulted in a number of publications and he is co-author/author of five books, Sport and National Identity in the European Media (1993), Power Play: Sport the Media and Popular Culture (2000: Pearson) Football In the New Media Age (2004: Routledge) and Sports Journalism: Context and Issues which was published by Sage in 2006. A fully updated and revised edition of Power Play (with Richard Haynes) was published in June 2009.

He also sits on the editorial board of the journal Media, Culture and Society.

He is the 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.

He is a founding member of the Media and Sport Section of the IAMCR and Convenor of the SMCA. The Scottish wide association representing higher education professionals working in media and communication areas. He is also a member of the Peer Review College of the AHRC.

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.

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 recently the DCMS (2005). He also acted an advisor to the Byron Review (2008) into Children and New Technology, published by the Department of Children, schools and Families/DCMS

These projects have often been centred around policy and regulatory issues relating to the media, the most recent being research for the DCMS into the relationship between violence in society and the popularity of video gaming.

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 mapping the way that the 2012 London Olympics are being reported in the print media.

In 2009 he was the invited Professor of Olympism at the Centre for the Study of the Olympics in Barcelona

Some recent publications

Books

2009 Power Play: Sport, The Media and Popular Culture, revised and updated 2nd  edition, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh (with Richard Haynes).

2006: Sports Journalism: Context and Issues, Sage: London.

2004: Football in the New Media Age, Routledge:  London (with Richard Haynes).

2000: Power Play: Sport, the Media and Popular Culture, Longman: London (with Richard Haynes).


Articles

2009: Sport and the media: The Long Revolution?, Sport in Society, Vol. 10, December.

2009: Why sport matters: New Challenges in the Digital Age, Published lecture at the Centre d’Estudis Olympics, UAB, Barcelona, October. http://ceo.uab.cat/eng/lec_1.asp?id_llico=22

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. Published in conference proceedings.

2008: From Troubleshooter to The Apprentice: The changing face of business on British television, Media, Culture and Society, May.

2008: A Nation of Entrepreneurs? Television, Social Change and the Rise of the Entrepreneur, International Journal of Media and Cultural Politics, May.

2006: ‘Running away from the circus’, The British Journalism Review, vol. 17, no.3.

2005: (with Claudia Monteiro) ‘A small country with a big ambition’: Representations of Portugal and England in Euro 2004 British and Portuguese newspaper coverage’. European Journal of Communication, vol. 20. no. 2, pp. 233-244.

2004: ‘Sport in the Mobile Age: The Case of 3G Sport,’ Trends in Communication, vol 12, no. 3, pp.73 – 83.


Book chapters

2009: The Rise of the Business Entertainment Format on British Television, in Moran, A. (ed) TV Formats Worldwide: Localising Global Programs, London: Intellect, December.

2009: ‘A Crass lack of seriousness’? Questions for Sports Journalism, chapter in Allan, S. (eds.) The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism Studies, London: Routledge, (with David Rowe and Garry Whannel)

2009: Sport, in The Media, edited by Albertazzi, D and Cobley, D. Routledge, December. (with Neil Blain)

2008: New Media Sport, chapter in Blain, N. Hutchison, D. (eds,) The Media in Scotland, Edinburgh University Press: Edinburgh.

2006: (with Richard Haynes) ‘The football Industry and Public Relations’, In L’Etang, J. and Pieckza, M. (eds.) Critical Perspectives in Public Relations, Lawrence Elbeum: London. pp. 221 -239.
 
2004: ‘Football and Social responsibility in the New Scotland: The case of Celtic FC.’, in Wagg, s. (ed.)  Football and Social Exclusion, Routledge: London and New York, pp. 186 – 204.

2003: (with Richard Haynes) ‘Media Matters: Issues in Media Management in the Football Industry’, in Trenberth, L. (ed.) The Business and Management of Contemporary Sport in the UK and Europe, Dunmore Press: London, 251-269.


Recent Talks and Presentations
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.

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