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Kerry McCallum holds joint appointments at the University of Canberra as Academic Director, Graduate Research, and Professorial Research Fellow in the News & Media Research Centre, Faculty of Arts and Design. Her research in Political Communication specialises in the relationships between changing media and Australian social policy, particularly in Indigenous affairs. She has a strong record of grants management and research translation, with more than 60 academic publications and research reports since entering academia in 2005. 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. She is a 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.
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Political Communication; Indigenous Media Studies; Mediatization; Political Participation; Media and Public Opinion
Education/Academic qualification
PhD
… → 5 Dec 2005
Bachelor
… → 1988
External positions
Member, Australian Institute for Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies
2011 → 2021President, Australian and New Zealand Communication Association
1 Sep 2010 → 31 Aug 2011Fingerprint Fingerprint is based on mining the text of the person's scientific documents to create an index of weighted terms, which defines the key subjects of each individual researcher.
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Projects 2009 2019
- 4 Finished
Collaborative Evaluation, Research And Planning Panel 2015
BROWN, L., BURROUGHS, S., CAFFERY, J., DAVEY, R., DAVIS, J., EVANS, M., GEORGES, A., JORGENSEN, R., MCCALLUM, K., OBRIEN, P., OBRIEN, P., TANTON, R., TAYLOR, A. & UPTON, P.
12/04/16 → 8/03/19
Project: Other
Deficit Discourse and Indigenous Education-via ANU
MCCALLUM, K., Fforde, C., Fogarty, W., Gorringe, S., Sullivan, P. & Waller, L.
1/01/15 → 31/12/17
Project: Other
Conversations about Alcohol and Pregnancy
HOLLAND, K., BLOOD, W., BLOOD, W., MCCALLUM, K. & McCallum, H.
Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education
1/01/14 → 31/12/15
Project: Other
Australian news media and Indigenous policymaking 1988-2008
1/01/09 → 31/12/12
Project: Other › Research
Research Output 2002 2018
Bypassing the press gallery: from Howard to Hanson
FISHER, C., MCCALLUM, K. & MARSHALL, D., 10 Apr 2018, In : Media International Australia. p. 1-14Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
politician
social media
press secretary
mediatization
broadcaster
How television moved a nation: media, change and Indigenous rights
WALLER, L. & MCCALLUM, K., 2018, In : Media, Culture and Society. 40, 7, p. 992-1007 15 p., 3.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
File
Television
television
referendum
narrative
constitutional reform
Resisting the truancy trap: Indigenous media and school attendance in 'remote' Australia
WALLER, L., MCCALLUM, K. & Gorringe, S., 2018, In : Postcolonial Directions in Education. 7, 2, p. 122-147 25 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Open Access
Trap
School Attendance
Education
Torres Strait
Indigenous Peoples
‘To drink or not to drink’: media framing of evidence and debate about alcohol consumption in pregnancy
McCallum, K. & Holland, K., 8 Aug 2018, In : Critical Public Health. 28, 4, p. 412-423 12 p.Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Alcohol Drinking
Pregnancy
Women's Rights
Public Health
Guidelines
Disruption or transformation? Australian policymaking in the face of Indigenous contestation
Dreher, T., MCCALLUM, K. & Waller, L., 2017, Global Cultures of Contestation: Mobility, sustainability, connectivity & Aesthetics. Peeren, E., Celikates, R., de Kloet, J. & Poell, T. (eds.). London: Palgrave Macmillan, p. 215 240 p. (Palgrave Studies in Globalization, Culture and Society).Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter