RSDF

The Radio Academy Skills and Diversity Forum

The RSDF identifies and promotes best practice in training & development across the radio industry, and encourages recognition of the industry’s skills in a wider context.

The RSDF advises both the Broadcasting Training & Skills Regulator(BTSR) and Skillset’s Sector Council for Radio. It operates under the auspices of The Radio Academy. The current Chair is Lisa Kerr (RadioCentre).

Its membership includes representatives of BBC Audio & Music, BBC Nations & Regions, the commercial radio trade body (RadioCentre), commercial radio companies, independent production companies, community radio, student radio and hospital radio.

The chairmanship alternates between representatives of the BBC and the major commercial radio groups or their trade body (RadioCentre). The chair serves for a period of two years and is the radio industry’s representative on the BTSR.

The forum meets up four times a year to:

• Provide a forum for information exchange, discussion, co-ordination and co-operation within the radio industry and between the radio industry and skills development providers.
• Advise the Radio Academy’s events team on the viability of conferences, seminars and other events aimed at the training & skills and human resources workers in the industry.
• Gather data and develop industry-wide strategies (where appropriate) on
  • developing talent
  • fostering diversity
  • encouraging media literacy
• Assist the BTSR and Skillset in achieving proper and effective communication with all parts of the radio industry by:
  • Learning about the strategy, policy and activities of the Skillset Sector Council For Radio (on which both the chair of the RSDF and the Director of the Radio Academy will sit).
  • Feeding back to that Council and reporting on developments within the radio industry.
  • Learning about the strategy, policy and activities of the BTSR
  • Feeding back to the BTSR and reporting on developments within the radio industry including providing information and market intelligence on current and potential labour trends and training and skills needs