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Biography
Kate Holland is a Senior Research Fellow with the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra. Kate’s research sits at the intersection of media studies and public health. She has led and worked on several collaborative research projects examining news reporting and its impacts in relation to topics such as mental health, violence against women, obesity, alcohol and pregnancy, swine flu. Kate specialises in qualitative methods including in-depth interviewing, focus groups, news framing, discourse and thematic analysis.
Kate has held grants awarded by the Australian Research Council and the NHMRC. She was the recipient of an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE140100100 (2014-2017) for the project ‘Mediating Mental Health: An Integrated Approach to Investigating Media and Social Actors’. Between 2009-2012 she held a Postdoctoral Fellowship with 'The Australian Health News Research Collaboration', a collaborative project between the Universities of Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, funded by a NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in public health. She has also worked on grants and consultancies for the ACT City Renewal Authority, National Farmers Federation, Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Department of Communication and the Arts, Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, ANROWS, Our Watch, Carers Australia and Emergency Media and Public Affairs.
Kate’s research has been published in journals such as Journalism Studies, Journalism, Critical Public Health, Social Semiotics, Health, Risk & Society, Journal of Sociology, Journal of Risk Research, Qualitative Health Research and Qualitative Inquiry. Kate has also published work on topics such as health humanities and research ethics.
Kate is actively involved in national an international communication and media studies organisations. She served as a co-chair of the Health Communication and Change working group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) between 2010-2016 and vice chair between 2016-2018. She has coordinated the Health stream of several conferences of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) and was co-convenor of the conference in 2019.
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Health news and journalism studies; media and public understandings of health issues; public health communication
Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals
In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):
Education/Academic qualification
PhD, Conformity and Resistance: Discursive struggles in the Australian mental health field
Award Date: 29 Jul 2008
Bachelor, Communication
Award Date: 18 Dec 2002
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Collaborations and top research areas from the last five years
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Public and media understandings of A/H1N1 within a risk communication environment
BLOOD, W., Chapman, S., Dare, A., Fogarty, A., HOLLAND, K. & Pirkis, J.
15/07/09 → …
Project: Other
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Evidence-based media guidelines for the responsible reporting of child sexual abuse
MCCALLUM, K., HOLLAND, K., RICKWOOD, D. & John, E.
17/06/22 → 1/06/23
Project: Research
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Understanding gambling harms in the digital age
HOLLAND, K., MCCALLUM, K., FISHER, C., JOHNS, R., ORDWAY, C., DALE, N., BROWN, T., ROCHE, M., George, A. & DAVEY, R.
21/01/22 → 30/04/24
Project: Research
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Scoping review and synthesis of evidence of the impact of policy and regulatory settings on the potential for mitigating gambling harm
JOHNS, R., DALE, N., ORDWAY, C., BROWN, T., FISHER, C., George, A., HOLLAND, K., MCCALLUM, K., ROCHE, M. & DAVEY, R.
21/01/22 → 31/08/24
Project: Research
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Engaging Culturally Diverse Communities in Times of Crisis: Identifying best practice for the ACT
HOLLAND, K., WALSH, B., MCCALLUM, K. & LEE, J. Y.
1/11/21 → 30/04/22
Project: Research
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Citizens’ Strategies for Navigating News and Misinformation in the COVID-19 “Infodemic”
Holland, K., Park, S., Mccallum, K., John, E., Fisher, C., Mcguinness, K. & LEE, J. Y., 2024, In: International Journal of Communication. 18, p. 2882-2901 20 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement
Lewis, M. (ed.), Govender, E. (ed.) & Holland, K. (ed.), 5 Jan 2024, Switzerland : Palgrave Macmillan Cham. 501 p.Research output: Book/Report › Edited Book › peer-review
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Journalistic Role Performance in Australia During the COVID-19 Pandemic: Events, Media Systems and Journalistic Practice
Nolan, D., McGuinness, K., Lee, J. Y., Holland, K. & Lewis, M., 2024, In: Journalism Practice. 18, 9, p. 2281-2299 19 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article › peer-review
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Metajournalistic Discourse and the COVID-19 Pandemic in Australia
Nolan, D. J., Holland, K. & Lewis, M., 2024, Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust and Public Engagement. Lewis, M., Govender, E. & Holland, K. (eds.). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Cham, p. 145-165 21 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review
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Picking up the threads and expanding the dialogue on communicating COVID-19.
Lewis, M., Holland, K. & Govender, E., 5 Jan 2024, Communicating COVID-19: Media, Trust, and Public Engagement. Lewis, M., Govender, E. & Holland, K. (eds.). Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan Cham, p. 3-27 25 p.Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter › peer-review