Sam Coley is a radio documentary producer and academic whose work intersects popular music, broadcasting practice, and media education. Based at Birmingham City University, where he is Course Director of the MA Media Production, he has been making music documentaries for NZ & UK radio since the early 2000s.

His radio documentaries and features, produced for Absolute Radio, Greatest Hits Radio, Radio New Zealand, and the BBC, have been recognised in nominations and awards at the New York Radio Festival, the Sony Radio Awards, and the UK Radio Academy. Music Doc subjects include David Bowie's pivotal 1983 commercial reinvention to Led Zeppelin, New Order, Prince, The Smiths, and Run DMC.

His 2021 book Music Documentaries for Radio (Routledge) draws on his doctoral research and industry practice. Recent publications appear in Riffs, American Music Perspectives, and Popular Culture Review. He has presented papers at conferences from Sorbonne-Paris to the University of Helsinki, Auckland University of Technology, and the Université Toulouse-Jean Jaurès, France, 

Coley's ongoing research focuses on Bowie studies, the podcast as a pedagogical tool, and the evolving role of radio in a digital media landscape. He collaborates internationally, including with Anna University in Chennai and Jagran Lakecity University in Bhopal, on British Council-funded radio training.