In what's turned into a year of picking up unexpected titles I've just been appointed a 'Teaching Fellow' at Leeds Trinity. There's no money in it (at least, not for me personally) but I get the green light to develop exciting new links with community partners in Leeds and Bradford.
A teaching career was never on the radar when I started work in what's rapidly becoming a forgotten age of commercial radio, an era brilliantly recalled by David Lloyd in a recent blog post. So now, with my current postgrads busy on air producing bulletins for BCB 106.6FM, it's come as a shock to realise I'm in my twentieth year of developing news talent.
Which is very strange, because I really am the world's least likely academic.
