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A/Prof Deane Martin Williams (Main), Dr Ioulia Vassilieva (Associate)
Documentary Film Production & Ethics in the Saudi Arabian Context.
My research explores how documentary films are being funded, produced and distributed in Saudi Arabia. This investigation will help to understand also the roles of Saudi filmmakers within different contexts which underpins the foundation for one of my research questions: how documentary filmmakers understand and deal with ethical issues in their films. The contribution of my research lies in suggesting practical ethical codes for filmmakers.
A/Prof Deane Martin Williams (Main), A/Prof Belinda Smaill (Associate)
Media representations of the Christchurch terror attacks: Framing terrorism, security and national identity.
Before the Christchurch terror attacks in 2019, New Zealand had often been considered as a nation ‘free from terrorism’. News media representations of the Christchurch attacks provide a site to interrogate how terrorism, security and national identity are discursively framed in both local and international contexts. This analysis aims to illuminate how representations of terrorism are produced and negotiated within a specific geopolitical space.
Dr Fay Anderson (Main), Dr Stephanie Louise Brookes (Associate)
A/Prof Olivia Khoo (Main), A/Prof Therese Davis (External)
My research focuses on Iranian diasporic women’s cinema and it explores the intersectional relations between cultural belonging, gender and sexuality.
This project offers a scholarly contribution in mapping the current trends in transnational filmmaking by pointing to the importance of the diasporic intersectional identity in generating vibrant feminist film culture. It revises the concepts of diasporic and accented cinema in order to include feminist political thought and advances current debates of women’s film authorship among ethnic groups whose voices have been traditionally marginalised.
Dr Ioulia Vassilieva (Main), Dr Tessa Dwyer (Associate)
How resource-extraction has shaped the Australian moving image and its surrounding industry and cultures, focusing on the region around Broken Hill.
Due to the escalating global climate crisis, it is paramount to challenge how the moving image is understood in relation to our surrounding ‘natural’ environment. My project is important in that it argues that Australian film production has strong connections to the ‘natural’ environment, and interrogates how Australia’s resource-extraction economy is linked to film through practices of manufacture, representation, and other cultural industries.
A/Prof Belinda Smaill (Main), Dr Maura Edmond (Associate)
The Process of Adapting Alternative Comics into Film.
The field of Comics Studies is relatively new, and historically, research focussing on comics adaptations to the screen have centred largely around mainstream superhero adventures. By introducing and unpacking the world of Alternative Comics and their counterpart film version, I attempt to expand this knowledge base, and validate the Alternative Comics branch as a culturally rich source of inspiration for adapters and the arts more broadly.
Dr Constantine Emmanuel Verevis (Main), Dr Claire Elizabeth Perkins (Associate)
A/Prof Anthony Bruce Moore (Main), Dr Benjamin Carl Eltham (Associate), Prof Justin O'Connor (External)
The emotions of exile and activism of Chartist and Young Ireland political prisoners in nineteenth century Australia and their impacts on democracy.
My research, connected to the ARC funded project Conviction Politics, is seeking to reframe Australian colonial history through a digital, interdisciplinary, and transnational approach. This research is important in understanding how the public sphere and democratic reforms were impacted by convicts in the Australian colonies, and what this means for activism in the present political context.
A/Prof Anthony Bruce Moore (Main), Prof Paul Long (Associate)
Dr Fay Anderson (Main), Dr Stephanie Louise Brookes (Associate), Prof Colleen Murrell (External)
Dr Claire Elizabeth Perkins (Main), Dr Constantine Emmanuel Verevis (Associate)
Dr Paul Atkinson (Main), Dr Graham Jones (Associate)
Dr Constantine Emmanuel Verevis (Main), Dr Claire Elizabeth Perkins (Associate), Prof Jean Orio Joseph Allain (Associate)
For the Record; The ABC [Australian Broadcasting Corporation] and the art world of Australian classical music, 1942-2000
This thesis investigates areas of ABC activity that have rarely been investigated - in particular, in-house recording activities and the contributions of ABC music activities to the Australian musical art world. Based on work by Becker and Van Maanen, a model for this investigation has been constructed to enable analysis of these activities in terms of various broadcast-specific Domains within an Organisational Structure.
A/Prof Anthony Bruce Moore (Main), A/Prof Mark Gibson (Associate)
A/Prof Shane Homan (Main), Prof Paul Long (Associate)
The analysis of Feminists' participation in Mainland China in New Media.
Study the way Chinese feminism is promoted in new media. Seek an effective path for the later promotion of feminism in China.
Dr Xin Gu (Main), Nina Li (Associate)
My thesis focuses on virtual reality (VR) and video games and the sense of immersion that these mediums have the potential to produce.
My research is important because how immersion works in VR is often misunderstood. VR is often used as a tool to reduce implicit biases and create empathy, however, my research suggests that this is an inappropriate use of VR technology that promotes both identity and disaster tourism, and has the potential to increase implicit bias. My work creates a new lens to view virtual reality, opening up new possibilities for this technology.
Dr Daniel Ariad Black (Main), A/Prof John James Bradley (Associate)
My thesis explores the evolving role of audiovisual remix in contemporary digital culture, in relation to online videos and social media communities.
Audiovisual remix is one of the most prevalent and culturally relevant forms of expression in the digitally developed world today. My research evaluates the evolution of remix-based social media and ultimately advocates for a more universal understanding of remix, addressing the imbalance between media-literate users and more susceptible, inexperienced users.
Dr Constantine Emmanuel Verevis (Main), A/Prof Deane Martin Williams (Associate)
My thesis is a genre study that examines the history of the teen figure on screen and social fears surrounding teens and the supernatural.
My research fills a number of gaps in the existing literature as it identifies a collection of teen supernatural programs as the supernatural teen television (STT) genre. It also traces the history of the supernatural teen onscreen, historical conventions for representing teens in film and television and the satanic panic era as an influential antecedent to STT.
Dr Paul Atkinson (Main), A/Prof Mark Gibson (Associate)
The China Story: a media narrative analysis of Beijing’s global communications.
To date, most analysis of China's global state media has focused on ideological and economic drivers, and international dynamics. Other studies have examined the nature of this media expansion, including platforms used and geographies targeted. However, my research analyzes how China’s news production has been coded to promote particular foreign policy messages and aims to shed new light on what the CCP leadership seeks to communicate and why.
A/Prof Gil Soo Han (Main), Prof Gloria Davies (Associate)
Parallel realms: Lived experience of popular religion in contemporary Taiwan.
Taiwan’s popular religion is estimated to be practised by up to 87.9 per cent of Taiwanese and deeply ingrained in daily life. Diverging from past scholarship, this project documents popular religion as experienced by its practitioners. It draws on oral history’s capacity to empower people and challenge dominant histories, thereby offering 'ordinary' Taiwanese voice in the academic discussion and historical record of their religion.
Dr Debbie Anderson (Main), Prof J. Bruce Jacobs (Associate), A/Prof Olivia Khoo (Associate)
Investigating the ethical challenges and issues in the design, implementation and use of artificial intelligence in the Australian healthcare sector.
With the increasing use of AI in healthcare – making it more efficient and patient focussed; producing faster diagnoses while reducing errors; assisting patients in the management of symptoms and coping with chronic illness; and reducing or avoiding bias and errors in data – this research seeks to understand the associated ethical issues in its design and use to provide practical tools for the healthcare sector to ethically implement AI systems.
Prof Mark Andrejevic (Main), Prof Jon Paul Mccormack (Associate), Prof Tam Nguyen (External)
Dr Xin Gu (Main), Prof Carl Grodach (Associate)
A/Prof Belinda Smaill (Main), Dr Ioulia Vassilieva (Associate)
A/Prof Anthony Bruce Moore (Main), Dr Ciara Chambers (External), A/Prof Deane Martin Williams (Associate)
Dr Judith Charlton (Main), A/Prof Mia Kersti Maria Lindgren (Associate)
"Here we are now, represent us": Women, Policy and Process in Australian Political Journalism, 1984-2010
My research examines media representations of women and men during Australian federal election campaigns. It contributes to thinking around the role of women in politics and their performance as 'critical actors' for feminist policy outcomes, looking at how representation has shifted over time. The representation of women in politics and their treatment by the media is a topic which remains relevant both locally and internationally.
Dr Fay Anderson (Main), Dr Susan Margery Yell (Associate), A/Prof Mia Kersti Maria Lindgren (Associate)
Dr Catherine Fitch (Main), Dr Debbie Anderson (Associate)
