Tuesday, June 9, 2009

EXTENDED DEADLINE!

WE’VE EXTENDED THE DEADLINE!! APPLICATIONS NOW DUE MONDAY 22ND JUNE

ANZCA are providing an exciting opportunity to present your research to an expert mentor in your field!

…and ANNOUNCING: two more mentors!!

Professor John Hartley (QUT)Expertise: Media Studies, Television, Creative Industries.

Dr Christy Collis (QUT)Expertise: Popular cultures, cultural studies, and international Law.

There are 10 travel bursaries of $500 available to successful applicants to cover the cost of travel to Brisbane.

ANZCA are also offering a discounted student rate to attend the ANZCA conference held the next day (details here - http://www.anzca09.org/)

To apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity, you must provide a current academic CV. You must also provide a 500 word description of your research, innovations you have made and your preferred mentor. It should be emailed as an attachment to dbossio@swin.edu.auor lucy.morieson@rmit.edu.au

Monday, May 18, 2009

Our Mentor Profiles -- who suits you best?

Ass. Prof. Margie Comrie – Massey (New Zealand)
Research Expertise: Media relations, bi-cultural communication, communication methods for public consultation, adult literacy and employment aspects of health literacy.

Margie Comrie is Associate Professor in the College of Business at Massey University in New Zealand.

She is a Fellow of the Public Relations Institute, and public relations practice and teaching remains a research interest.

Ass. Prof Comrie came to Massey after 15 years in the media, largely with public radio, but also with experience in newspapers, freelance writing and communication work.
She has also published articles on the effectiveness of media relations, the ideal of bi-cultural communication with Maori and communication methods for public consultation and participation in decision-making.

With a team of researchers she has also worked on funded research projects on adult literacy and employment aspects of health literacy.

Ass. Prof. Anne Dunn – USyd
Research Expertise: Audience construction between policy and practice in broadcast news production, digital convergence, Journalism as a profession and issues surrounding the tertiary teaching of journalism and media

Anne Dunn is Associate Professor in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Sydney. She has researched across a number of media-related research areas especially: Audience construction in broadcast news production, impacts on radio journalists of digital convergence in the media, media policy and Journalism as a profession.

She is co-author of the book Narrative and Media (2005).

Prior to taking up a full time academic career, Anne worked across the print, television and radio media. Altogether, Anne spent some 13 years with ABC Radio and Television, in management, in policy and in broadcasting, including as a presenter, journalist and producer. She has also worked for the BBC in documentaries as well as in Australian commercial television as a journalist/researcher; for SBS Television as a reporter; and as a freelance director, reporter and writer in both the television and print media.

Prof. Gerard Goggin – UNSW
Research Expertise: Internet, telecommunications, and digital communication and media in general; media policy and regulation; disability.

Gerard Goggin is Professor of Digital Communication, and Deputy Director of the new Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales.

Gerard's research focuses on Internet, mobiles, telecommunication, and disability. He is author of over one hundred refereed papers and book chapters, and 9 books.

Gerard current research projects include: a ARC Discovery project from 2008-2010 entitled Young, Mobile, Networked: Mobile Media and Youth Culture in Australia (with Kate Crawford); Internet histories in Australia and Asia-Pacific; disability, innovation and technology.

Gerard's books include Global Mobile Media (2010) Cell Phone Culture (Routledge, 2006), and with Christopher, Disability in Australia (2005) and Digital Disability (2003) -- as well as the edited collections Internationalizing Internet Studies (2009; with Mark McLelland), Mobile Technologies: From Telecommunications to Media (2009; with Larissa Hjorth), Mobile Phone Cultures (2007), and Virtual Nation: The Internet in Australia (2004).

Prof. Caroline Hatcher – QUT
Research Expertise: Speech Communication, Organisational Communications, Intercultural Business Communications


Caroline Hatcher is Professor in the Business faculty at Queensland University of Technology. Her work in speech communication has international recognition.

As Secretary-General & Regional Vice President (Australia & New Zealand) of the World Communication Association and former President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, she is actively involved in many aspects of communication research and practice.

Dr Hatcher has researched and published on issues around gender, leadership, change strategy, communication about diversity, technology, bullying, and the role of emotion in organisations.

She has researched and published in various areas of intercultural communication: speaking across cultures; persuasive communication, the structural, cultural barriers and communicative barriers that limit the success of Japanese and Korean women in management and Australian/Korean communication practices.

Prof. Gay Hawkins – UNSW
Research Expertise: Media and Social Theory , particularly ecological humanities, materiality and biopolitics, and the relations between government, media and everyday life

Gay Hawkins is Professor in the School of English, media and performing Arts at the University of New South Wales.

Gay Hawkins researches in two key areas: ecological humanities, materiality and biopolitics, and the relations between government, media and everyday life. She has published widely on the institutional, political and theoretical implications of these areas. She brings to this research an innovative interdisciplinary approach that is concerned with the intersections between cultural and material practices and forms of rule. Her most recent books are The Ethics of Waste: how we relate to rubbish (2006) which was on the Gleebooks nonfiction bestseller list for two months in 2007, and, co-authored with Ien Ang and Lamia Dabboussy, The SBS Story: the challenge of cultural diversity (2008).

Her current projects include a 3 year ARC funded international study into the rise of bottled water, titled ‘From the Tap to the Bottle: the social and material life of bottled water.’ This project is being done in collaboration with two early career researchers Dr Kane Race from Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney and Dr Emily Potter from the Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation at Deakin University.

 

Prof. Tom O’Regan – UQ

Research Expertise: media and cultural policy, international film and television production; the contemporary film studio; audience measurement for media industries.

 

Tom O’Regan is Professor of Media and Cultural Studies at the University of Queensland. He is a key figure in the development of media and cultural studies in Australia and has an international reputation for his cultural policy studies related work. 

His current research includes the redesign of Australian film and television environments with the emergence of multichannel, DVD and online television; changing film and television business models and production cultures; and the history and contemporary transformations of broadcast ratings conventions. 

He is the co-author of "The Film Studio: Film Production in the Global Economy" (2005) and "Cinema Cities/Media Cities" (2003) with Ben Goldsmith; and "The Future for Local Content" (2001 with Goldsmith, Cunningham and Thomas). He is also author of "Australian National Cinema" (1996) and "Australian Television Culture" (1992).
  In 2002 Tom was elected a Fellow of Australian Academy of the Humanities. He was Director of the Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy from 1999-2002.

Tuesday, May 12, 2009

The first ANZCA Postgraduate Mentoring Forum has arrived

The ANZCA Post-graduate mentoring workshop
Tuesday July 7th, 2009
2- 5PM
QUT Kelvin Grove

ANZCA are providing an exciting opportunity to present your research to an expert mentor in your field!

You will have the opportunity to present your post-graduate research to your chosen ‘expert’, who will mentor you providing commentary and publishing advice, as well as their own thoughts on broader research directions. By pairing communications experts with post-graduates, we hope to have a creative exchange of ideas, as well as opportunities to network and develop possible research relationships.

The mentors include:

Prof Tom O’Regan (UQ)
Expertise: media policy, international film and television production; the contemporary film studio; audience development in the arts and media industries; and contemporary cultural policy.

Prof Gerard Goggin (UNSW)
Expertise: Internet, telecommunications, and digital communication and media in general; media policy and regulation; disability.

Ass. Prof Anne Dunne (Syd Uni)
Expertise: Audience construction between policy and practice in broadcast news production, digital convergence, Journalism as a profession and issues surrounding the tertiary teaching of journalism and media

Ass. Prof Margie Comrie (Massey
Expertise: Media relations, bi-cultural communication, communication methods for public consultation, adult literacy and employment aspects of health literacy.

Prof Gay Hawkins (UNSW)
Expertise: Media and Social Theory , particularly ecological humanities, materiality and biopolitics, and the relations between government, media and everyday life

Prof Caroline Hatcher (QUT)
Expertise: Speech Communication, Organisational Communications, Intercultural Business Communications

…with more announcements to come soon!

There are 10 travel bursaries of $500 available to successful applicants to cover the cost of travel to Brisbane.

ANZCA are also offering a discounted student rate to attend the ANZCA conference held the next day.

To apply for this once in a lifetime opportunity, you must provide a current academic CV. You must also provide a 500 word description of your research, innovations you have made and your preferred mentor.

Applications are due by 5pm Monday 8th June and should be emailed as an attachment to dbossio@swin.edu.au or lucy.morieson@rmit.edu.au

The best applications will also have an opportunity to extend their presentation into a refereed article for a special edition of PLATFORM, a new online post-graduate journal of media and communications.

COME BACK TO SEE UPDATED INFORMATION ON BURSARIES, MENTORS AND THE VENUE!