Canadian Women's Issues for Radio

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Application ID: 001189
This project is available.
Project Description
Project Title
Canadian Women's Issues for Radio
What is the central research question you want answered?
What are the objectives of your project?
Bringing the voices of researchers and activists to the airwaves to talk about Canadian women's issues.
Project Type
Computer Related     
Creative     
Formal Research     
 Organizational Development     
Survey     
Other    Media   
Size of Project (Number of pages, minutes, cm, etc.)
1/2 hr - 1 hour Recorded Interview
Project Description (Use this space to further elaborate on the project)
Students are sought to participate in putting together material for radio programs that reflects the concerns of SFU women's studies and, more broadly, the issues affecting women in Canada.
How do you plan to use the results of this project?
For radio broadcast in women's programming time slots.
What larger goal is served by undertaking this project?
Meeting our licensing obligation to air underreported voices and issues, and serving the needs of the listening public for information.
The Organization
Organization Name
CJSF-FM / Simon Fraser Campus Radio Society
What community do you represent or work with?
The general public, SFU campuses, the campus-community radio sector
What is your organization/group's goal or mandate?
CJSF is a campus-community radio station licensed by the CRTC to broadcast from the Burnaby campus of Simon Fraser University. We are funded by SFU students, but our broadcast area is greater than the university, encompassing most of the lower mainland, and also parts of Vancouver Island and the islands between. The radio studios are just over the entrance of the Burnaby campus (one floor down from SF-PIRG), in TC-216. We offer airtime and broadcast training to students and non-students alike.

One condition of our broadcasting licence is that we air voices and issues that are not widely heard in mainstream media. Among those are the voices and issues of Canadian women. CJSF maintains regular airtime for women's voices and issues on Wednesdays from 4 to 5 pm, and we are seeking more interviewers to contribute to that programming.
Are you a registered not-for-profit?
Yes
Contact Information
Contact Person
Frieda Werden
  
Position
Public Affairs/Spoken Word Coordinator
Mailing Address
CJSF Radio 90.1 FM
TC-216 Simon Fraser University
Burnaby BC V5A 1S6
Canada
Telephone
778-782-4423
Fax
 
Email
cjsfpa@sfu.ca
  
Alternate Telephone
 
Alternate Fax
 
Alternate Email
 
Project Plan of Action
Duration of Project
Smaller (One semester)
If you know the duration more specifically, please indicate here
Students may continue beyond one semester if they like doing radio work (most likely as a volunteer.)
What are the specific deliverables that you expect of the student?
The task of providing content for our broadcasts includes having a 45-minute station orientation and then these steps:

1. Preliminary research to choose topic and interviewee. CJSF maintains a Canadian Women's Issues blog that can be helpful in identifying topics and interviewees. See www.canadawomen.blogspot.com . Many of the entries on this blog come from organizations that are glad to speak to the press. The student may choose other sources from her own acquaintances, interests, studies or research, as long as permission to interview for broadcast is clearly given.
2. Planning the interview: writing the introduction and outro script, drawing up questions, scheduling the location and equipment. [Equipment can be provided by CJSF] In some cases a non-recorded pre-interview may be useful to explore the topic in advance.
3. Conducting the interview. Technical assistance and/or training will be made available. The interview can be live on air or recorded for later broadcast.
4. If recorded for later broadcast, the interview may be edited. If the student would like to do the editing, basic editing training is available. Otherwise, another volunteer will do the editing for radio.
5. The student may keep a copy of her/his interview or interviews and use them in other media, for study, or for podcasting. Students may use these interview recordings as research source materials in themselves, in the same way they would use other media products. Students and their teachers should be aware that in some disciplines the academic requirements for direct human subject research may be at variance with the media uses of interviewing.
Estimated time commitment per week
1 - 2 hrs/week
Liaison
Liaison Name
Frieda Werden
  
Liaison Position
see above
Liason Contact Info (If different from above)
 
How much time per week will the
liaison be available to the project?
10 - 21 hrs per week if needed
How will the liaison provide direction and support to the project?
Training. Guidance as needed.
Student Researcher
Student area of study/experience
Any. Women Studies, Gender Studies, Queer Studies, Sociology, Anthropology, Sustainable Community Development, Communications, and more.
Student skills/attributes
Curiosity
Student related interests
Any

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