Biography summary
Katrina Clifford is an Associate Professor in Communication and the Director of Employability in the Faculty of Arts and Education at Deakin University. She is a specialist in media criminology. Her work seeks to challenge and disrupt normative assumptions about the media-crime nexus by bringing together criminological concepts and frameworks with an applied understanding of media practice. Katrina brings over 10 years’ industry experience to both her teaching and research, having worked as a journalist and magazine editor for a number of business titles. She later expanded her expertise as a communications consultant and corporate writer, providing strategic advice on policy and stakeholder communications to not-for-profit organisations, including the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Suicide Prevention Australia. Katrina is the author of two books: Policing, Mental Illness and Media: The Framing of Mental Health Crisis Encounters and Police Use of Force (Palgrave Macmillan) and Media and Crime: Content, Context and Consequence (with Rob White, OUP).
Research interests
Media criminology; framing theory, practice and analysis; policing, mental illness and media; social and open justice; trauma, emotion and media witnessing; the politics of the visual; communications practices, mediating technologies and ethics.
Katrina welcomes enquiries from prospective students interested in undertaking a research higher degree at Masters or PhD level. She has experience supervising a wide range of projects from across the areas of journalism studies, disasters and social media, lifestyle magazines and publishing, public health advertising, strategic communications, and media representations of crime, criminality and criminal justice.
Affiliations
Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA)
Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC)
Teaching interests
Media and crime, work-integrated learning and internships, communication ethics, journalism theory and practice, strategic communications and media relations, research methods and project design
Professional activities
Mindframe for Universities (Journalism Education) Advisory Group
Research groups
Research Fellow, Deakin Motion Lab
Rural News Networks and Imaginaries Research Cluster, Deakin University
Research Associate, UNE Centre for Rural Criminology
Media and the Perception of Insecurity Research Group, Universita della Calabria
Publications
Pathways to Preventing Fatal Police-Involved Shootings of People in Mental Health Crisis
Katrina Clifford
(2023), pp. 265-291, Policing & Firearms, Berlin, Germany, B1
Lisa Waller, Katrina Clifford
(2022), pp. 73-93, Australian Courts: Controversies, Challenges and Change, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Katrina Clifford
(2021), London, Eng., A1
On the Road to Roon: Rural Australia's Storied Role in the Nation's Ice Epidemic
Katrina Clifford, Lisa Waller
(2021), pp. 61-74, Crossroads of rural crime : representations and realities of transgression in the Australian countryside, Bingley, Eng., B1
News media framing of the Murray-Darling Basin 'water theft' controversy
K Clifford, R White
(2021), Vol. 54, pp. 365-382, Journal of Criminology, C1
Mediated Representations of Prisoner Experience and Public Empathy
Katrina Clifford, Rob White
(2020), pp. 265-287, Palgrave Handbook of Incarceration in Popular Culture, Cham, Switzerland, B1
Ice towns: television representations of crystal methamphetamine use in rural Australia
L Waller, K Clifford
(2020), Vol. 16, pp. 185-199, Crime, media, culture, London, Eng., C1
The "Rosie Batty effect" and the framing of family violence in Australian news media
E Hawley, K Clifford, C Konkes
(2018), Vol. 19, pp. 2304-2323, Journalism studies, Abingdon, Eng., C1-1
Media and crime: content, context and consequence
K Clifford, R White
(2017), South Melbourne, Vic., A1-1
SIAMO INNOCENTI: Twitter and the performative practices of the 'real' Amanda Knox
K Clifford
(2016), pp. 89-110, Transmedia crime stories : The trial of amanda knox and raffaele sollecito in the globalised media sphere, Berlin, Germany, B1-1
For the lifestyle and a love of creativity: Australian students' motivations for studying journalism
F Hanusch, K Clifford, K Davies, P English, J Fulton, M Lindgren, P O'Donnell, J Price, I Richards, L Zion
(2016), Vol. 160, pp. 101-113, Media International Australia, C1-1
F Hanusch, K Clifford, K Davies, P English, J Fulton, M Lindgren, P O Donnell, J Price, I Richards, L Zion
(2015), Vol. 37, pp. 5-19, Australian journalism review, Brisbane, Qld., C1-1
Mental Health Crisis Interventions and the Politics of Police Use of Deadly Force
K Clifford
(2013), pp. 171-195, Policing and the Mentally Ill: International Perspectives, Boca Raton, Fl., B1-1
The Thin Blue Line of Mental Health in Australia
K Clifford
(2012), pp. 66-81, Police responses to people with mental illnesses : global challenges, London, Eng., B1-1
The Vulnerable Thin Blue Line: Representations of Police Use of Force in the Media
K Clifford
(2012), pp. 101-114, Policing Vulnerability, Annandale, N.S.W., B1-1
Policing Mental Illness: Examining the Police Role in Addressing Mental Ill-Health
V Herrington, K Clifford
(2012), pp. 117-131, Policing Vulnerability, Annandale, N.S.W., B1-1
K Clifford
(2010), pp. 175-192, Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives, Cambridge, Eng., B1-1
The Killer Point: contemporary reconfigurations of The Gap as a crime scene
K Clifford, G Mitchell
(2009), Vol. 13, pp. 80-107, Law Text Culture, Wollongong, N.S.W., C1-1
K Clifford
(2008), Vol. 35, pp. 69-88, Australian journal of communication, Brisbane, Qld., C1-1
Funded Projects at Deakin
No Funded Projects at Deakin found
Supervisions
No completed student supervisions to report