His project Living Like This: photographs from the Free Photographic Omnibus (1973-5) is an important record of British life, a study to which he returned in the 1990s, photographing again many of the people who first posed for his camera more than a quarter of a century before. This project was also the subject of his documentary Living Like This for BBC Radio 4 in 1996 and was widely disseminated through a range of publications including Granta (no. 68 Love Stories, January 2000), The Sun, Guardian Weekend, and the BBC World Service.

Moving from the north of England in the early 1980s, Meadows became a still photographer in the British film industry and a prominent photographic educationalists, co-directing the HND in Documentary Photography at Newport in South Wales (1990-94). He has been a full-time member of staff at Cardiff University's School of Journalism, Media and Cultural Studies (JOMEC) since 1994 and his teaching has extended across most of the school's academic programmes.

In April 2001 he instigated Capture Wales, the BBC's Digital Storytelling project, and he was its Creative Director until March 2006. He remains a citizen media consultant at the BBC. Meadows and his team devised workshops to help people create short multimedia tales, two minute stories told from the heart. Workshops take place in village halls, IT centres, miners' institutes, and other community centres. Participants use the latest tools of new media production together with pictures from their family albums and favourite possessions as their source materials.

Since 2001 he has delivered lectures on Digital Storytelling at conferences, seminars and/or workshops on many occasions in the UK and also on visits to Australia (2001, 2004, 2005, 2006), the USA (2003, 2004, 2005, 2006) and Egypt (2004). He has presented at the Annual Digital Storytelling Festival in America on three separate occasions.

His research interests continue to centre on the digital revolution, particularly its potential for interactivity and (so called) "user-generated content" in broadcast television.

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