Current Postgraduate Research Students

Name Thesis Supervisor
Kate Alexander Investigation of the Roles of Internal Communications in the Implementation of Successful Change Management Programs Dr Olaf Werder
Kathryn Ames Audience, ‘Community’, Identity and Place on Regional Radio: A Rockhampton Case Study Associate Professor Anne Dunn
Sarah Ayoub Reportage Vs Representation, Reel Vs Reality, Us Vs Them: The medium, the message and the Arab-Australian folk devil in a moral panic's culture of fear. Dr Penny O'Donnell
Joseph Brennan “I am your worst fear, I am your best fantasy”: new approaches to slash fiction Dr Fiona Giles
Dr Marc Brennan
Catherine Davies Curdle: Notes on a Practice and Performance of Induced Lactation Dr Fiona Giles
Kerrie Davies Blame the (single) mother. Dr Megan Le Masurier
Birhanu Olana Dirbaba Journalists' Identity: The Comparison of Perceived Professional Roles and Actual Traits of Ethiopian Journalists Dr Penny O'Donnell
Nicholas Goodwin Finding Effective Change Agents : How a sense of community moderates the success of social marketing programs Dr Fiona Giles
Fran Hagon Just Take Two and Off You Go”: The Representation of the Use of Medicines in TV medical Drama Dr Fiona Giles
Peter Higgins An Analysis of the Future of the Commercial Radio Industry in Australia Based on the Examination of Historical Developments and Outlining Current Issues. Associate Professor Anne Dunn
Zorana Kostic Prospects And Dilemmas For Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Study of Japanese and Australian Public Service Corporations Associate Professor Anne Dunn
Julie Lim Race and Belonging in an International City: Overseas Chinese in ‘New’ Shanghai Honorary Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Jack Liu Content and Role of Chinese Newspapers in Australia Dr Antonio Castillo
Teodora - Crisia Miroiu Media and International Conflicts: Official Sources and Consent Formation. Dr Tim Dwyer
Hamideh Molaei Social Media and Politics: Netizens’ Engagement in Indonesia’s Participatory Web Professor Gerard Goggin
Michael Mullins Culture Conflict Between Journalists and Clergy Associate Professor Anne Dunn
Dominic O'Grady The View from Oxford Street: Journalism from the Sydney Star Observer Dr Fiona Giles
Will Roberts The New New Magic Writing Machines: Trouble Brews in the Concoction of Fiction, Faction and Fact. Dr Fiona Giles
Dominic Santangelo Indigenous and non-Indigenous collaboration in community broadcasting. Dr Fiona Martin
Tina Schilbach The Politics of (Middle-) Class in China’s ‘Economic Centre’: Shanghai and the Making of Chinese Urban Identity Honorary Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Donald
Desmond Siahaan Unethical Indonesian journalists and the effect of their ways within Indonesian society Associate Professor Anne Dunn
Nonee Walsh Mediating justice: investigating the media framing of the 2006 AWB inquiry Dr Tim Dwyer
Tom Zelinka Re-evaluating the Spatio-temporal Relationships of Habermas’ “public sphere”, Bourdieu’s “field”, and McLuhan’s “medium”: Implications for Media Theory. Dr Tim Dwyer
Lukasz Swiatek Society's Rewards Rewarding Society: Strategic Communication and Media Spectacles in Modern Awards and Prizes  Dr. Marc Brennan  
Toby Creswell Darlinghurst Nights: The party that never ended Dr Megan Le Masurier
Kim Powell From student to professional: How are online newsrooms training university graduates to be journalists?   Dr Penny O'Donnell
COMPLETED
 
Melissa Deitz Watch This Space: How Media Activists and Culture Jammers are fighting the post-capitalist culture wars (Completed) Prof Catharine Lumby
Christy Dena Polymorphism through Transmodiology (Completed) Professor Gerard Goggin
Kim Mcnamara On Location: Celebrity and Space (Completed) Prof Catharine Lumby
Hong Feng Qiu Broadcasting Convergence as a Field in Formation (Completed) Associate Professor Anne Dunn
Damien Spry Youth and Mobile Media Policy in Australia and Japan Honorary Professor Stephanie Hemelryk Dona
Erin Semon The Gateway: Private Women, Public World Antonio Castillo
Alana Mann Setting the Human Rights Agenda: Issue Emergence within Transnational Advocacy Networks Dr Richard Stanton
Akhteruz Zaman The Geography of the Broadcast Newsroom (Completed) Associate Professor Anne Dunn