Media Studies
Includes research in the field of popular culture and the media, the history of radio, the media and the constitution of national communities and history and commemoration in the media.
Faculty Research Focus
- Media art aesthetics,
- Media audience research
- The media and the constitution of national communities
Research Interests
The Faculty will consider any research topic that interests potential PhD students; however, students will benefit from researching in areas that align with the Faculty’s strengths. Please contact the Faculty to discuss your PhD topic.
Alternatively you may contact one of our academics below to discuss your area of interest.
- Cultural and ideological critique - Dr Christopher Scanlon
- Cultural Studies - Dr Lawrie Zion
- Documentary production - Dr Lawrie Zion
- Emergency media and communications - Dr Peter Hughes
- English in Australia - Dr Lawrie Zion
- Gender and identity in popular culture - Dr Terrie Waddell
- Gender, Modernity, Spectatorship - Dr Felicity Collins
- Media and climate change - Dr Mary Debrett
- Media and cultural policy - Dr Mary Debrett
- Media and security culture - Dr John Tebbutt
- Media history - Dr John Tebbutt
- Myth and story in popular culture – media and cinema - Dr Terrie Waddell
- Narrative theory - Professor Richard Freadman
- Popular culture and the media - Mr John Benson
- Post-Jungian approaches to media and cinema - Dr Terrie Waddell
- Social and political theory - Dr Christopher Scanlon
- The documentary and postmodernity - Dr Peter Hughes
- The media and democracy - Dr Mary Debrett
- Visual media and tragedy - Dr Wendy Bowler
