Matt Grimes
AHRC/BBC Project Co-ordinator and Researcher
Matt Grimes is the Degree Leader for Music Industries at the Birmingham School of Media. He is a researcher and the project administrator for the AHRC/BBC Radio Listeners On-line research project.
Matt has worked extensively in the West Midlands as a radio trainer, bringing radio production to marginalised groups such as Romany and Gypsy Travellers, young adults and children in rural areas, community groups, prison inmates and the long term unemployed.
His rationale for the training is using radio, an accessible and affordable media, as a vehicle for raising self-esteem and increasing confidence, giving marginalised people a voice, skills acquisition and development, social and cultural bridge building.
He still works closely with Travellers where he is currently recording Traveller histories for a forthcoming cultural archive.
He has also previously worked as an art technician and consultant, a sound engineer and a member of various bands that never “made it”.
Email Matt: matt.grimes@bcu.ac.uk