Global Utilities

Media Studies Program

Staff Directory

Name Position Research/Teaching Interests Telephone Email
Dr Peter Hughes
Senior Lecturer/
Honours Coordinator 		Multimedia, media information technology & telecommunications Documentary project and postmodernity. +61 3 9479 3065 p.hughes@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Sue Turnbull Associate Professor, Reader and Head of Program Television studies, media audience research and Australian screen comedy. +61 3 9479 2513 s.turnbull@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Peter White Associate Professor Social and industrial implications of new media including mobile or cell phones and Internet–based media. +61 3 9479 2785 peter.white@latrobe.edu.au
Mr John Benson

Senior
Lecturer

 Popular current affairs television, television news, popular culture and the media and media curriculum design. +61 3 9479 2493 j.benson@latrobe.edu.au
Ms Angie Black Teaching Fellow All areas of film and television production, but particularly in comedy, drama and televison commercials. +61 3 9479 2817 a.black@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Mary Debrett Lecturer Broadcasting policy, public service broadcasting in the digital era and documentary as a social project. +61 3 9479 2167 m.debrett@latrobe.edu.au
Dr John Tebbutt Senior Lecturer Policies & program strategies in Australian radio. Ethics, Journalism & coverage of licit & illicit drugs. +61 3 9479 5098 john.tebbutt@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Rachel Buchanan Lecturer Creative non-fiction writing, history-making and commemoration in the media, newspaper futures and pasts. +61 3 9479 2308 rachel.buchanan@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Christopher Scanlon Lecturer The media and the constitution of national communities, political communication, media policy, technology and design aspects of media. +61 3 9479 1041 c.scanlon@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Terrie Waddell Senior Lecturer/ Program Coordinator Gender representations in popular culture, film and television, media theory, the grotesque, & analytical psychology. +61 3 9479 2396 t.waddell@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Lawrie Zion Senior
Lecturer		 Documentary production & history of radio.
 +61 3 9479 2961 l.zion@latrobe.edu.au
Dr Susan Bye ARC Postdoctoral Fellow Television comedy, Australian TV history, variety television and media +61 3 9479 2623 s.bye@latrobe.edu.au

Administrative Staff

Name Position Telephone Email
Ms. Heather Wilkie Program Administrator +61 3 9479 2616 h.wilkie@latrobe.edu.au

 

 

 

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