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Caroline Mitchell has over thirty years of experience of practice and research in the area of community media. She has first hand experience of setting up and working in different types of community radio stations in Britain, including co-founding Fem FM, the first women’s radio station in the UK. She is a well-known radio educator and trainer and over the last ten years she has been a leading partner in successive European projects to pilot and provide training in community radio and has written numerous materials including two handbooks about working with women, refugees and asylum seekers. She is co-author of ‘Managing Radio’, a key text for radio station managers. She also edited and contributed to the first published collection of work about Women and Radio: 'Women and Radio, Airing Differences' published by Routledge in 2000. Her academic research has mainly focused on radio, minorities and participatory practices. She is a founder member of the European women and radio research network WREN and at the University of Sunderland is member of PRAXIS - a project within CRMCS. She is on the International Advisory Board of The Radio Journal. Until 2006 she was team leader for Radio at the University of Sunderland and programme leader for MA in Radio. She now combines teaching and research at the University with work as an independent trainer and consultant in community media. She has recently been awarded grant funding as PI for Transnational Radio Encounters: Mediations of Nationality, Identity and Community through Radio (TRE) as part of the HERA Joint Research Programme 'Cultural Encounters' programme 2013-2013.