Profile

Paul Egglestone

Digital Co-ordinator

School of Journalism, Media and Communication

Greenbank Building 279

+(44) 1772 894733

pegglestone@uclan.ac.uk

Paul Egglestone is Digital Coordinator at UCLan’s School of Journalism, Media and Communication. ). A former independent TV producer working for BBC, ITV and Sky on regional and network programming, he now focuses on digital storytelling. In 2010 he was identified as a leading innovator in journalism and media.
http://blogs.journalism.co.uk/editors/2010/07/22/are-you-on-the-j-list-the-leading-inno
Personal Blog : http://www.meldonline.org/

 

 

Paul Egglestone is Digital Coordinator at UCLan’s School of Journalism, Media and Communication adopting the role in March 2010 after a two year stint as Head of New projects at Sandbox (www.sandbox.uclan.ac.uk). A former independent TV producer working for BBC, ITV and Sky on regional and network programming, he now focuses on digital storytelling. He established ‘Meld’ (www.meldonline.org) as a space for creative interdisciplinary thought leadership in journalism and media in 2007. Since its inception Meld has worked with journalists, filmmakers, producers, photographers games designers and artists from the BBC, Sky TV, The Independent, The Times, the Guardian, Haymarket Media, Johnston press and Trinity Mirror bringing together the freelances and the sector skills councils and development agencies (BJTC, NWDA, PTC and Skillset) to collaborate on a series of projects addressing the challenges posed by convergence.  As part of this work he developed a major cross platform narrative training programme with the BBC called inFUZE.

Current Teaching Activities

BA and MA Documentary and MA Digital Publishing + digital teaching across the School. 

Publications

Mills, J, Egglestone, P Rashid, O, (2011) MoJo in Action: The use of mobiles in conflict, community and cross platform Journalism, Continuum, journal of media and cultural studies,  Issue 26 (5) October 2012 Wising Up: revising mobile media in an age of smart phones.

Anderson, P, Egglestone,P (2011)The development of effective quality measures relevant to the future practice of BBC news journalism online, Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, (awaiting publication date from Sage).

Vataaja, H, Egglestone, P, (2011) Briefing News Reporting with Mobile Assignments – Perceptions, Needs and Challenges, (Conference proceedings  http://cscw2012.org/)

Light, A, Egglestone, P, Participant-Making: bridging the gulf between community knowledge and academic research, The Journal of Community Informatics, Vol 8, 2011-12.

Egglestone, P, and Rogers, J, (2010), Bespoke: Increasing Social Inclusion Through Community Journalism and Bespoke Design, Digital Futures All Hands Conference,  

Egglestone, P, Blum-Ross A (2010) Reflections on the use of community journalism in digital design, Media, Communications and Cultural Studies Association Conference.

Frohlich, D, Egglestone, P et al, (2011) Crossing the digital divide in the other direction: Community-based innovation on the Bespoke project Include 2011 - The Role of Inclusive Design in Making Social Innovation Happen, RCA.

Blum-Ross A, Egglestone, P, Mills, J & Frohlich, D (2011)  Participatory video and design: examples from the Bespoke project Participatory Innovation Conference 2011, Mads Clasen Institute, University of Southern Denmark.

Egglestone, P, and Robertshaw S (2010) Meld - a model for innovation in new forms of journalism narratives. International Enterprise Promotion Convention.

Egglestone, P, (2008) Tomorrow’s Journalists Today , Society of Editors, Bristol, 2008

Egglestone, P, (2008) The Changing Nature of Journalism: Reconnecting Audiences, Fostering Deliberative Democracy  The International Journal of Interdisciplinary Social Sciences (University Press) 

‘Meld’. Interdisciplinary creative innovation and thought leadership in journalism and media, Digital News Affairs, Brussells, 2008

Book Chapter: 'Employability Skills in Film and Media’ - Sage. (2007) 

Book chapter: With Beers,R (2006) The future of television journalism ' in P.J. Anderson and Ward G. - The future of Journalism in Advanced Democracies, Aldershot, Ashgate.

Research

‘Bespoke’ www.bespokeproject.org/ – (RCUK), Co-I, £1m (2009-’11)
‘Participants United’ (AHRC), PI, £44k (2010-’11)
‘Big Society’ www.bigsocietyresearch.com (AHRC) Co-I, £40k (2010-’11)
‘Work Life’ Community-based initiative using digital stories with home-based workers in social housing (AHRC). Co-I, £40k, (2010-’11)

NWUA – Cross Platform Content Creation www.meldonline.org  £83k (2009-10)
North West Vision and Media. ‘Infuze’ £150k (2008-9)
HEFCE. ‘Meld Pathfinder’ £82k (2008)
Northern Way (NWDA) ‘Meld’ £50k (2007)

External Activities

Recently established 'The Content Collective at Sandbox BFI

Recent talks.
Society of Editors: http://www.societyofeditors.co.uk/ (Nov 2008) Tomorrows Journalist Today.
Digital News Affairs: http://www.dna2009.com/ (March 2008) ‘Meld’. Interdisciplinary creative innovation and thought leadership in journalism and media.

Impact.
‘Citizen Journalists’ Shine A Light On Their Own Communities, The Guardian, March 17th 2010.
We Have The Technology, The Big Issue North, May 17th‐23rd,