About Me
Meet Mr C Morgan
I am the creator, owner, project co-odinator and managing director of an online magazine created in 2001 entitled Supatrax. The website quickly became a voice for the black and inner city community with its then, new style of reporting on issues and matters affecting the community. Getting approx. 40,000 hits per day, the website became very influential. This influence was used to engage and teach young people and adults via various media related workshops, lessons and courses.
Supatrax is now a charity and delivers a range of courses and engagement in schools, youth centres and for organisations across the West Midlands predominately.
Building on the popularity of Supatrax, in 2004 I created one of the UK’s and Birmingham’s first online radio stations entitled Jam Radio. In 2010 this was sold and I later created another radio station called Sticky Radio. The stations created a platform for many young DJs to be part of a legal radio setting instead of Pirate Radio. Sticky Radio played from preloaded playlists managed via radio control software and music and ‘sets’ where uploaded remotely.
In 2006 I formulated a design, print and media outlet entitled MRC Media. I took this venture full time in 2012 and now manage a small team from a shop located in the Jewellery Quarter in Birmingham UK offering design, print, large format printing, signage and web design and web hosting services.
In 2010 I wrote a PhD proposal that was accepted by Warwick University. This was entitled ‘The Race for the Media’, which focused on the need to form online resources for the black community in the UK to tackle racism in the mainstream media reporting. I chose not to pursue it at the time. 10 years later following the death of George Floyd in the USA, I noticed that alot of the discussion centred around a lot of the issues I had raised a decade before in my PhD proposal. This fired me up to do a PhD and complete it.
With a work career that spans the community, private and public sector I feel I have a broad understanding of how to carry myself and engage in various settings. Leaving the Probation Service in 2012, after being the National Communications lead for the Association Of Black Probations Officers for numerous years, I noticed there was a glass ceiling within many public sector organisations . . . I was over qualified, more experienced and had worked in Probation for numerous years . . . Yet I was turned down for a position that I later had to advise very heavily on.
The final straw that broke the camels back was being given a bottle of alcohol for my birthday . . . Coming into work to see a bottle of ‘Black Rat’ cider left for me by the then PR and Communications Manager for Staffordshire and West Midlands Probation, Ali Bell – a white woman, was enough to show me this environment wasn’t one that paid me enough (or I cared enough about) to stay.
My past experiences, personally and also in an employment capacity, I feel, give me a sound foundation to pursue a PhD in 2024 in a very similar subject to one I have previously proposed.
Quick Stats
Starsign: Scorpio
Born in the Chinese year of the Dragon
Football Team: Birmingham City FC (Saw them win the League Cup at Wembley in 2012 v Arsenal)
Previous winner of the Young Graphic Designer of the Year
Masters (MA) in Visual Communication, specialising in Non Visual Tactile Communication
Grassroots Football Coach
Owner of a Vaxhall Nova 1985 registered
Coin Collector
DBS Checked
Summary
“I’m a nerd trying to provide a platform for others to build from – Especially those close to me!”
Reference: “Geeks are “collection” oriented, gathering facts and mementos related to their subject of interest. They are obsessed with the newest, coolest, trendiest things that their subject has to offer. Nerd – A studious intellectual, although again of a particular topic or field.” – (Taken from: https://laist.com/shows/take-two/whats-the-difference-between-a-geek-and-a-nerd )
My Social ‘ME’dia
Get in touch:
WhatsApp: Supatrax 07944248137
WhatsApp Business: MRC Media: 07505083681
WhatsApp: Personal for research purposes: +1 (312) 708-9522
Instagram:
@Supatrax – Posted for engagement and to gain a response – Also to highlight the work of youth engagement
@MRCmedia – Examples of work completed
@mrcmorganphd – To engage amd disseminate information perta regarding my PhD studies.
Facebook (now known as Metaverse)
Twitter (now known as X)
@Supatrax – Supatrax Charity and Online Magazine content
@mrcmedia1 – MRCmedia Tweets
LinkedIn: Carl Morgan – Online CV (2018 – Non active)
BlackBerry: General BBM – (2016 – Non active)