Kerry McCallum is Director of the News & Media Research Centre at the University of Canberra. Her research in Political Communication specialises in the relationships between changing media and Australian social policy. Kerry has a strong record of grants management, publication and research translation. She has been the recipient of five Australian Research Council and 23 government and industry grants since entering academia in 2004. Kerry was lead CI on 'Breaking Silences: Media and the Child Abuse Royal Commission' (DP190101282) and was Commissioned by the National Office for Child Safety to develop national guidelines for media professionals, victims and survivors in the reporting of child sexual abuse.  She has collaborated on a program of discipline-leading research to theorise the mediatisation of Indigenous policy, and is co-author of 'The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia' (Intellect, 2017).  Kerry is actively involved in the field of Communication and Media Studies in Australia and internationally; she is former President of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) and Member of the Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies (AIATSIS). As an experienced academic leader Kerry has implemented and administered complex change management processes at the faculty, university and national levels. From 2017-19 she was UC's Academic Director (Dean) of Graduate Research, and member of the Australian Council of Graduate Research. This trajectory is supported and grounded by nearly a decade of previous professional experience working in federal parliament in political and media advisory roles.

Political Communication; Media and Social Policy; Communication of Inquiries; Indigenous Media Studies; Mediatisation; Political Participation; Media and Public Opinion