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:
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.