J.A. (Jennifer) Young, Dr

Highlights:

• Working with researchers to produce an online research pack for members of the UN Human Rights committee informing the work of the UN Human Rights Committee in drafting General Comment 37 on the right of peaceful assembly (Article 21 ICCPR) December 2019.
• Seminar Leader (Associate Tutor) in two Law modules
• Invited speaker at ISHS, SLSA and SLS conferences
• Twenty years of industry experience, working in-house and on a consultancy basis, managing projects and editorial compliance teams, and training for commercial broadcasters and the BBC.

 Education:

• PhD in Media Law University of East Anglia: Broadcast Regulation and Satire: Making a Mockery of Democracy? 2023 Supervisors: Professor Michael Harker and Professor Paul Bernal
• Master’s Degree in Social Science research, University of East Anglia awarded with distinction 2018
• LLM Media Law, Policy and Practice, University of East Anglia awarded with distinction 2015
• BA (Hons) English and Latin Literature, University of Warwick 1990

 Teaching qualifications:

• Associate Fellow (AFEA) 2021

 MENTORING EXPERIENCE:

• LLM Dissertations April 2019 and April 2020

 TEACHING EXPERIENCE:

• Seminar leader, Critical Perspectives in Law October 2021 (UEA, School of Law)
• Seminar leader, Legal Method, Skill, and Reasoning, Autumn 2020 (UEA, School of Law)
• Media Law Summer School August 2018 (UEA, School of Law)

 Grants and Awards:

• ESRC/SeNSS 1+4 (fees, stipend and training expenses for MRes in Social Sciences and PhD in Media Law) 2018-2021

 Academic Leadership:

• HEA Associate Fellowship February 2020
• Student Member of the Centre for Competition Policy since 2017

 Industry Experience:

Managing editorial compliance teams and projects across a wide range of genres, with a specialty in commissioned comedy, live programming and emergency services reality programming.  Checking rough cuts, scripts and pre-production content for compliance and legal issues.

• Managing Partner: TV Compliance LLP: September 2012 – February 2021
• Editorial Compliance Manager: Red Bee Media: October 2009-2012
• Senior Editorial Compliance Advisor/Acting Manager: Red Bee Media: August 2005 – September 2009
• Senior Compliance Advisor/Compliance Advisor: BBC Broadcast/BBC 1997 – 2005

 Selected Conference Presentations:

• The Ordinary Reasonable Person. Panel Member ISHS Conference University of Boston June 2023

• The Legal Limits of Humour. Invited speaker Comedy and Philosophy University of Kent May 2023

• If in Doubt, Cut it Out. Panel member ISHS Conference University of Bologna June 2022

• Broadcast Regulation and Satire: Making a Mockery of Democracy? Society of Legal Scholars, Durham University September 2021

• Regulating Political Discourse: Curtailing, controlling and chilling satire on Britain’s broadcast media Socio-Legal Studies Association, Cardiff University (online), April 2021

• Socio-Legal methodology PGR workshop, Birmingham University (online) November 2020

 Publications:

• The Right of Peaceful Assembly in Online Spaces: A Comment on the Revised Draft General Comment No. 37 on Article 21 (Right of Peaceful Assembly) of the International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights https://www.ohchr.org/EN/HRBodies/CCPR/Pages/GCArticle21.aspx Joint Authorship with Michael Hamilton et al. together with the European Centre for Non-Profit Law (ECNL) and the Centre of Governance & Human Rights (CGHR) at the University of Cambridge. January 2020
• Broadcasting Regulation during a pandemic – Blog post for the UEA Law School 04/06/2020
• Bat People on the Moon #Fake News! – Blog post for the UEA Law School 09/03/2018

 RESEARCH PROJECTS:

Working with researchers to produce an online research pack for members of the UN Human Rights committee informing the work of the UN Human Rights Committee in drafting General Comment 37 on the right of peaceful assembly (Article 21 ICCPR) December 2019.

My two masters and my PhD projects are based in socio-legal research, the way in which people interact within the broadcast regulations. They all involved qualitative empirical research with senior practitioners, writers, journalists, and comedians.

PhD Thesis: Broadcast Regulation and Satire: Making a Mockery of Democracy? 

MRes Dissertation: Do media practitioners believe that regulatory requirements of due impartiality and accuracy are necessary and proportionate?  A Grounded Theory Study.

LLM Dissertation: Do The Ofcom Broadcasting Code and Broadcasters’ Editorial Policy unnecessarily and disproportionately interfere with broadcast writers’ freedom of expression, creating a chilling effect on challenging and innovative comedy programming?

METHODOLOGY AND RESEARCH INTERESTS:

I enjoy working with people, seeing the law in action and how ‘lay-people’ interpret and implement the law around them.   My research has been guided in part by the master’s degree in research in Social Sciences, based in the School of Psychology.  I was drawn to the qualitative modules and research methods, conducting face to face interviews, recording, transcribing, and analysing data.

Whilst I was at the BBC, as well as fulfilling my role as an editorial advisor, I researched the reflections and interpretation of older teenagers on music videos containing offensive language, violence and sexual imagery.