Dr Marc Brennan

• Celebrity culture
• Popular Music – audiences, consumption, identity
• Music journalism
• Media and globalisation
• Television
• Film genres
• Youth & the construction of ‘childhood’
• Media and Cultural studies

Dr Antonio Castillo

• International Journalism
• Latin American Journalism
• Democracy and Journalism
• Journalism and History
• Ethnicity and the Media
• Community journalism and media

Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald

• Film, Media, and the Politics of Visual Culture in China;
• Children’s Media and Socialisation;
• Society and Visual Culture in the Asia-Pacific region;
• Gender, Class, and Cultural Change in China and Australia;
• Branding and Urban Development on the Pacific Rim;
• Cosmopolitanism and the Migrant Condition

Associate Professor Anne Dunn

• Audience construction in the intersections between policy and practice in broadcast news production
• Impacts on radio journalists of digital convergence in the media
• Digital convergence
• Audiences
• Public broadcasting
• Media policy
• Journalism as a profession
• Issues surrounding the tertiary teaching of journalism and media

Dr Tim Dwyer

• media and cultural policy
• media ownership, policy and regulation
• media industries and audiences
• convergence and legal frameworks
• media globalisation and localism

Dr Fiona Giles

• Media and the body
• Literary journalism: history, theory and practice
• Feature writing and the genres of journalism
• Writing, editing and publishing pedagogies
• Adult uses of human milk
• Media representations of breastfeeding and embodied parenting
• Health communication
• The ethics of advertising

Dr Megan Le Masurier

• magazine studies – history, theory, practice
• popular feminism
• gender, sexuality and media
• everyday culture
• feature journalism
• plagiarism

Alana Mann

• The relationship between journalism and public relations
• The public communication strategies of grassroots organisations, social movements and international humanitarian NGOs
• Transnational civil society and advocacy in world politics
• The dynamics of agenda-setting and the agency of the news media
• Framing processes, issue emergence and mechanisms of representation
• Communication structures and processes in globalisation, particularly in relation to new communications technologies, concepts of political community and network theory

Dr Steven Maras

• Philosophy of communications
• Communication and media studies
• Conceptual practice and media production/education
• The theory, history and practice of screen writing
• Critical communications and media practice, pedagogy and media literacy
• Historical research on the emergence of communication studies in Australia.

Dr Fiona Martin

• public service media
• the impact of user generated content on journalism practice and media
• publishing
• convergent and online journalism
• online publishing communities
• technocultures
• participatory and deliberative democracy online
• science communication

Dr Penelope O'Donnell

• Excellence in journalism
• Journalism and culture
• Community media, diversity and social inclusion
• Media and the politics, technologies and practices of listening0
• International media practice
• Journalism studies

• Grants

• ARC Linkage, with Dr David McKnight (UNSW) and the Walkley Foundation
• 'From Rivers of Gold to the Clickstream: Newspapers and Quality Journalism in the Internet'
• This project will enhance Australian democracy by providing a scholarly basis for public discussion about the ways that quality journalism can survive in the Internet age. It will create knowledge about the specifically Australian experience of newspapers' transition to online media services and will thus help Australian citizens and journalists engage in global debates about journalism futures. It will create knowledge about the workplace conditions that foster quality journalism. It will showcase Australian research in international scholarly debate within the field of Journalism Studies.

Erin Semon

• Public Sphere
• Political Campaign Communication
• Feminist Theory
• Political Communication