I am a media researcher with an engineering background working at the interface between people, stories, media and technology. My work spans issues from access services, speech audibility, video quality to human perception and most recently the structure of media content and its relationship with the audience. My last majour pieces of work at BBC R&D by examined the role of the audience in media and the issue of media personalisation, both of which were poorly understood.

 

Since taking voluntary redundancy in March 2024 I have developed a subtitle quality measurement project with the support of the University of Dundee. I have written up my initial findings in a paper which I presented at IBC2025. It was my 14th IBC paper as either author or coauthor/editor. It may well be the first time an independent (unfunded) researcher has had a paper accepted for publication in the IBC Technical Conference.