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Members of the Creative Cultures and Communication group (C3)

Members and associate members:


Members:


Dr Jackie Cook is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies and Journalism. Jackie is the current director of the Centre for Professional and Public Communication, and Reseach Degree Coordinator for the School of Communication, Information and New Media. She is currently working on the formatting and stylisation of radio, especially commercial talkback, alternative “youth’ comedy shifts, and radical programming on community radio. She is continuing an ongoing research and publications project on Australian television comedy, and has an interest in the cultural analysis of activities involving the new communications technologies. Her emphasis has been on the gendered use of electronic communications media, and she has particular experience in qualitative and interpretive textual analysis.



Professor Claire Woods is Professor, Communication and Writing. She has been Chair of the Academic Board of the University and recent past director of the Centre for Professional and Public Communication (now C3), Teaching Team Leader in Professional Writing and Communication, Program director for offshore awards, (MA Communication Management; BA Communication and Media Management). Her research interests are in the teaching of writing and texts; ethnography of writing and literacies in professional and community contexts; issues qualitative research; communication in the workplace, writing creative non-fiction; and writing in research.



Associate Professor Peter Bishop is Associate Professor, Communication Studies. His emphasis in teaching and research has been on the relationship between cultural and communication issues. He is particularly interested in the impact of high-tech communications both on notions and experience of place and text. He is currently researching representations both of Tibet and of Australia in terms of media, popular culture, promotion, travel and transportation.



Ms Joy Chia is a former president of the SA PRIA, current board member of the National Education Committee of the PRIA . In 2003 Joy was awarded a certificate by the PRIA national president for outstanding contribution to Public Relations Education in Australia. Her PhD thesis on relationship management has expanded on the relational context in consultant- client relationships and she has given papers in the UK, Spain, Canada, New Zealand and Australia on trust in relationships, new media and changing relational paradigms and client relationship management for contemporary public relations practice. 



Dr Ingrid Day is a Senior Lecturer in Communication Studies and Course Coordinator of the BA (Journalism). Her main research and teaching interests involve the use of new technologies in teaching and learning, particularly the use of the Internet to bring together students from various cultures and regions. She also steers the Magnet Multimedia Channel for the School of Communication & Information Studies which showcases the outstanding work of students in the areas of Journalism, Media Production, Professional Writing, Communication Studies, Multimedia and Library & Information Studies.



Dr Jean Duruz is a Senior Lecturer, and teaches and researches in the fields of cultural studies and gender studies. She has an established history of researching memory, femininity and consumption within the Australian ‘suburban dream’ of the 1950s and 1960s. Recently, she has focused on nostalgia in relation to sites of everyday contemporary culture - houses, gardens, food and travel - and on the connections of food, identity and urban spaces. The city as a site for negotiating meanings, rituals and practices has become a particular interest.



Associate Professor Michael Galvin is Associate Professor in Communication Studies and Head of School, Communication, Information & New Media. In recent years, his publication and research interests have focussed on narrative theory and postmodernism, communication as a field of study, and trends and issues in emergent cyberculture.



Mr David Homer is a Senior Lecturer, Professional Writing and Communication and Course Coordinator of the BA (Professional Writing and Communication). He is currently researching the history of innovation in secondary English teaching, and the language and structure of curriculum documents. He is engaged in writing about National Curriculum in Australia, U.K. and South Africa. David has particular interests in curriculum innovation, critical language study, and teacher professional development. He also has expertise in fieldwork and outdoor education in English and the teaching of writing. He is President of the International Federation for the Teaching of English.



Mr Philip Marriott is a Lecturer in Information Management. He has a background in Education and Computer Science. His research interests include the use of communications and multimedia technology to improve university teaching and learning. He is involved in a number of projects concerned with on-line teaching, electronic publishing on the internet and multi-media applications in education.



Dr Paul Skrebels is a Lecturer in Professional Writing and Communication. He has extensive experience in designing, teaching and administering subjects in professional writing, communication skills, language arts, and literature. His research interests include the nexus between war memoir and war fiction, the teaching of writing skills, communication in professional and workplace contexts, postmodernist literacy and cultural criticism for students, Shakespearean drama, writing for the screen and stage, and the discourse of history, particularly military history.



Dr Nigel Starck is a Lecturer in Journalism, Public Relations and Media. He has extensive professional experience in the Asia-Pacific region. As a journalist, television documentary director and media consultant, he has been based in both Bangkok and Singapore - and has travelled on assignment through Malaysia, Laos, Cambodia, Indonesia and Papua New Guinea. He has also written for a UK newspaper group, produced the Australian television current affairs program Nationwide and operated his own scriptwriting, communication and media training agency, Professional Writers. His freelance writing has been published in The Age, The Bulletin and The Canberra Times.



Dr Mia Stephens is a Lecturer in Professional Writing and Communication. She teaches Linguistics, History of the English Language, English Around the World, and Global Environmental Politics, which all combine to support her hybrid profession linking communication with the environment. Her qualifications are in Applied Linguistics and Natural Resources Management. She is State Vice-President of the Environment Institute of Australia (SA Division). She is carrying out research in the area of environmental communication from the point of view of linguistic pragmatics and intercultural communication.




Associate members:

Dr Susan Luckman

Dr Vicki Crowley

Terence Lee is an Accociate Member of the CPPC. He has just recently taken up the position of Lecturer in Mass Communication and Cultural Studies in the School of Media, Communication and Culture at Murdoch University, Western Australia. He has previously held teaching or research positions at the Universities of Adelaide, Melbourne, South Australia and the Research School of Pacific and Asian Studies at the Australian National University. Terence is an experienced Asian media and broadcasting analyst, having formerly held an Executive position in the Policy and Planning Division of the Singapore Broadcasting Authority where, among other things, he worked on digital television policies and other convergent issues. His research interests lie in governmental and corporate approaches to communication, new media and cultural policy in Singapore, Australia and the wider Asia-Pacific region. He was the recipient of the 1999 Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy Essay Prize and the 2000 Communications And Media Law Association Essay Prize.


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