Alana joined the Department of Media and Communications as a full-time lecturer in July 2007, following several years of teaching part-time while working in the media and nonprofit sectors.
Most recently, Alana held the position of Marketing Communications Manager at The Smith Family, a national social enterprise that provides educational opportunities for disadvantaged children. Her professional experience also includes seven years managing youth and education marketing campaigns for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald at Fairfax Media. During this time she completed her Masters dissertation – Developing a Youth Readership Strategy for The Sydney Morning Herald and The Sun-Herald: A Study of the Newspaper Readership Habits of University Students in NSW.
A graduate of Central Queensland University and University of Queensland, Alana taught secondary school humanities in Australia, Canada and the UK in the 1990s before joining Bertelsmann AG in London, where she decided to pursue a career in marketing and media.
Alana’s PhD research topic is the strategic communication with and between peoples’ movements, non-government organisations (NGOs) and other actors within transnational advocacy networks.
Associations
- International Political Science Association
- International Association for Media and Communication Research
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