Helen Wolfenden
Lecturer
Department of Media, Music, Communication and Cultural Studies
Macquarie University
Australia
Biography
Helen Wolfenden is a lecturer in radio at Macquarie University. Helen has spent much of her professional life as a radio broadcaster (presenter, producer, manager and researcher) with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) and the British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC). Helen’s PhD focused on how ABC radio presenters construct an on-air identity. Her other practice-based research interests include podcasting, the role of radio producers and radio as a research tool. More broadly, Helen is interested in the intersect of professional and academic knowledge and their usefulness to each other.
Research Interest
Helen is currently working on a collaborative paper that examines the process of converting practice based knowledge into forms that are appropriate for, and acceptable by, the academy.
Publications
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Just be yourself? Talk radio and performance and authentic on-air selves Wolfenden, H. 2012 Radio and society: New thinking for an old medium. Mollgaard, M. (ed.). United Kingdom: Cambridge Scholars Publishing, p. 134-148 14 p.
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'I know exactly who they are': Radio presenters' conceptions of audience Wolfenden, H. 1 Jan 2014 In : The Radio journal : international studies in broadcast and audio media. 12, 1-2, p. 5-21 17 p.
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Scheduling for Christmas: how an 'ordinary' piece of television became extraordinary Tucker, P., Wolfenden, H. & Sercombe, H. 1 Apr 2017 In : Journal of Popular Television. 5, 1, p. 31-48 18 p.
