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Student Radio History is a multifaceted history project.
This is the first time student radio history has ever been put down on paper or podcast in Australia.
It is fully independent and is currently being funded by its broke author.
Hopefully, it will be a gamechanger for the future of student radio.
We’ve never been very good at knowing our own history, even recent history.
That means we make the same mistakes over and over, and we don’t get the benefit of the hard work and great ideas of the past.
Let’s change that!
The main outcome will be a full length book that will provide a narrative of student radio from its early beginnings in technical colleges and student backyards, to the thriving FM, stream and podcasting services today.
I will also offer some analysis on the shape of student radio over the years and the effects that government policies have had on the development of youth media.
Research is mostly into primary sources, so I spend most of my research time tracking down physical archives, travelling to view them, argue with archivists/librarians, photograph or otherwise copy them, clean up the copy (eg editing the photo for clarity), transcribing in some instances, cataloguing them in the database and finally pulling facts and quotes from them to integrate into a narrative.