Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Communication and Creative Arts


   Prof. Deb Verhoeven

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Position Chair in Media and Communication
Email deb.verhoeven@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Communication & Creative Arts
Phone +61 3 925 17655
Campus Burwood
Location Building D, Level 4, Room 10
Research interests Cinema Studies (particularly the exhibition and distribution of films); Media Geographies; Digital Humanities; Australian Cinema; Film Industries; Geovisualization; Digital Archives
Current research projects Mapping the Movies: the changing nature of Australia’s cinema circuits and their audiences, 1956-1984. An ARC funded project with Prof Richard Maltby, Prof Jill Julius Mathews, A/Prof Colin Arrowsmith, Dr Michael Walsh, Dr Kate Bowles.
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 > Statutory Board Appointment
* Inaugural Deputy Chair, National Film and Sound Archive of Australia (NFSA) (2008-2011)
Appointed by the Commonwealth Minister for Environment, Heritage and the Arts. Specific responsibilities include: Audit Committee; Stakeholders and Research Committee; Legal Deposit Working Group (Chair)

> Life
* Honorary Life Member, Women in Film & Television (WIFT) (2004)

>Executive
* Inaugural Interim Committee, Australasian Association of the Digital Humanities (aaDH) (2011)
* Founding Executive Member, Research Fellow, Screen Economics Research Group (SERG) (2006-present)
* Founding Executive Member, Archive Forum (2002-present)
* Founding Executive Member, Open Spectrum Australia (2005-2008)
* Elected, Board of Directors, Australian Film Institute (1998-2002)
* Founding Executive Member, WIFT (Australia) (1990-93)
* Executive member, WIFT (Victoria) (1988-93)

> Appointments
* Expert Group Member, Media Wave (2010)
* Editorial Board (2006-present), and Executive Editor (2009-2010), Studies in Australasian Cinema (UK)
* Executive Member, International Cinema Audience Research Group
(2007-present)
* Board of Management (2002-present), and Chair (2009 to present), Senses of Cinema
Awards * Winner, ATOM Awards (Best Tertiary Education Resource) Bonza: an online film and TV research resource (2010)
* Finalist, Victorian Community History Awards for Parlato in Italiano (2010)
* Honorary Creative Fellowship, State Library of Victoria (2009-2010)
Memberships * Fédération Internationale de la Presse Cinématographique (FIPRESCI) (2004-present)
* Australian Film Critics Association (AFCA) (2003-present)
* Accredited member Australian Film Institute (AFI) (1996-present)
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Additional URLs

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Wikipedia entry

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22nd April 2013