Intellect

Sylvia Harvey is Co-Director of the Centre for Media Policy, Regulation and Ethics at the University of Lincoln. She has written on film and broadcasting policy and regulation and on the history of Channel Four Television with recent publications including ‘Indigenous Culture and the Politics of Place’ in her edited collection Trading Culture (2006), ‘Ofcom’s First Year and Neoliberalism’s Blind Spot:
Attacking the Culture of Production’ in Screen (2006), ‘Film Policy in the United Kingdom: New Labour at the Movies’ with Margaret Dickinson in Political Quarterly (2005), ‘Who Rules TV?’, in Janet Wasko’s Companion Guide to Television (2005), ‘Channel 4 and the Re-definition of Public Service Broadcasting’, in Michele Hilmes’s The Television History Book (2003)

Another of Harvey's publications includes a contribution to the Oxford Economic History on the radio and television industry. She is a founder and continuing Board member of the Sheffield International Documentary Festival and a trustee of the Voice of the Listener. She worked for three years as Media Advisor to Sheffield City Council and is currently a member of the Royal Television Society and a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts. Many of her previous policy submissions to public bodies may be found at www.bftv.ac.uk.