School of Creative Arts, Film and Media (SCAFM)

I joined Portsmouth in 2010 as part-time Research Associate on the AHRC-funded Channel 4 Television and British Film Culture project. My role will be to prepare a literature review (& filmography); chart project progress; transcribe interviews; develop the website; and assist Dr Justin Smith in preparing a monograph on the project.  I shall also be helping to organize two project conferences, and disseminating project findings at conferences and other events.

Current Research

Apart from my work on the AHRC project, I have recently carried out freelance archivist work on the Philip Donnellan Archive (held at Birmingham Archives & Heritage, co-ordinator is Paul Long at Birmingham City University), and I will also be working on grant applications to support the cataloguing of the Independent Broadcasting Authority (IBA) Archive at Bournemouth University.

Publications

PhD Thesis^{[Back to top]}

Franklin, I. (2009). Folkways and airwaves: oral history, community & vernacular radio. Unpublished Ph.D. thesis. Bournemouth: Bournemouth University.

Journal Articles^{[Back to top]}

Franklin, I. & Long, P. (forthcoming, 2011). The weight of history: documenting the social and historical margins in the films of Philip Donnellan. In D. Letort & G. Fournier (Eds.), Narrative Practices and Documentary Film-Making in the English-Speaking World: from Propaganda to Dissent. LISA E-Journal, 3(2).

Franklin, I. (2009). Rambling House and The Barrelman: folklore and audience participation in radio broadcasting in Ireland and Newfoundland. Across the Water: Irish Journal of Newfoundland and Labrador Research 1(1), 13-32.

Book Chapters^{[Back to top]}

Franklin, I. (Forthcoming, 2011). Radio and orality: an Innisian perspective. In A. MacLennan & A. Dunn (Eds.), Listening out: radio, its histories, and its future.

Reviews^{[Back to top]}

Franklin, I. (2009). Review: Community radio in Ireland: participation and multi-flows of communication. The Radio Journal: international studies in broadcast and audio media, 6(2/3), 182-184.