Digital Social Life Research, & ex-BBC Online Communities (London)

Lizzie set up and managed the BBC’s online community between 1997-2002, creating the management and training systems, leading a team of 22 producers and assistant producers and overseeing the devolution of the online community management to the production Divisions in 2002.

Lizzie set up and managed the BBC’s online community between 1997-2002, creating the management and training systems, leading a team of 22 producers and assistant producers and overseeing the devolution of the online community management to the production Divisions in 2002.  She was responsible for the BBC’s Internet safety initiatives from 2003-2007, assisting BBC Children’s with the facilitation of their online communities and user-generated content and the development of editorial policy in that area. 

As Editor, Communities, BBC, producers in her team created websites and services which were nominated for the Guardian Unlimited Race in the Media Award and The Internet Service Provider’s Association Award for Safety on the Internet. Lizzie was nominated as one of the 100 innovators of the UK Internet Decade by NOP World and e-consultancy.com in October, 2004.

Lizzie is completing the first BBC-sponsored PhD, on the facilitation of participatory media content. She is currently a Research Fellow at the University of Westminster, School of Media, Arts and Design.

Other professional associations include: Fellow of the Royal Society for the Arts, NESTA Mentor, Management Committee of E-mint (the UK Association for Online Communities), and Member of the Home Office Task Force for Internet Safety.