Sue Bowerman

Sue Bowerman is a neuro-diverse, award-winning Producer of Ideas, Content Creator and Consultant for broadcasters, arts and cultural institutions and global charities that want to create impactful conscious content.

Sue's work helps her clients to fundamentally change the way people think, feel, and behave for the better. She also helps them to reach and empower new and existing audiences, and to be ethical and bold custodians of their platforms and messages. Ultimately, she helps clients create Conscious Content™ that ensures their message and stories reach their intended audience, with impact.

Sue is a Judge for the most prestigious UK Radio and Audio production awards, ‘The Arias’. In addition to her entrepreneurial ventures, Sue is an award-winning (Best Academic Tutor & Supervisor, NUS 2019) Senior Lecturer in Audio and Sound Design at the University of West London (Best London University, Times Awards 2021, Best London University, NSS 2021) and has been teaching and training since 2005. A founding member of Sound Women, Sue was responsible for delivering their BBC Mentoring Scheme, which offered women the opportunity for professional mentorship within the Audio Industries.

She completed intensive training (Practitioner Level 1) in Deep Listening with the Pauline Oliveros Foundation, which is integral to her work of engaging conscious dialogue and listening practice on a mass scale. She is currently studying towards a Diploma in Somatic Facilitation with David Bedrick, JD, an approach which distinguishes her teaching and production practice as that which goes beyond simply delivering curriculum to one of holistically developing each person throughout their process. Her practice-based philosophy This is Conscious Content™, runs through the content she produces, and is the foundation of all her teaching, training and mentoring work.

Mentoring emerging talent is another of Sue’s passions and areas of expertise. Graduates, Sian Medford achievied a First Class Honours Degree whilst simultaneously winning Gold for the Charles Parker Prize with her beautiful radio documentary, A Young Sel In A Small Town. Cassidy Baillie won The SRA (Student Radio Association) The Selector Award, then achieving a First Class Honours Degree at UWL and has gone on to phenomenal success, now Producing in-house at BBC Music. Recent productions, outcomes of the BBC New Creatives Project in association with Arts Council England, are currently available via BBC Sounds as part of the BBC Introducing strand.

Academic Attributes:

• 2015: Symposium, University of West London ‘All We Hear is Radio Ga-Ga – Radio Documentary and the Art of Listening
• 2017: PGCERT HE
• 2019: MECCSA Conference, University of Stirling ‘We Just Want to Watch Stuff – Radio Documentary and the Millennial Audience