Faculty of Arts and Education

School of Communication and Creative Arts


   Ms Lisa Waller

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Position Senior Lecturer
Email lisa.waller@deakin.edu.au
Area School of Communication & Creative Arts
Phone +61 3 522 71342
Campus Geelong
Location Waurn Ponds room ic.1.202
Role and profile Teaching, research and service to the university and community
Teaching responsibilities Research for writers
Editing and design
Honours discipline co-ordinator 2011
Research interests News media and Indigenous representation
The relationship between journalism and policy-making.
Regional journalism
Journalism education
Current research projects Phd studies on the relationship between news media and indigenous policy-making
Investigating the news media’s power to shame individuals and communities through routine court reporting and when sensational crimes of national and international significance affect a community.
Service to the University,
discipline or community  		 Judge, Victorian Country Press Association awards, 2010.
Judge, Victorian Country Press Association awards, 2009.
Judge, Geoff Farrell Media Awards for reporting on Hepatitis C 2008/9
Judge, Eliminating Violence Media Awards (EVAs) 2008.
Postgraduate representative, ANZCA executive
Awards Faculty of Arts & Education teaching award for an early career teacher, 2008. (Highly commended)
Dean's award for team teaching (2009)
Qualifications BA (ANU), Dip Ed. (University of Newcastle) Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (Deakin)
Memberships Media Entertainment and Arts Alliance
Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
Australian Journalism Educators Association
Conferences I-come'08 - Kuala Lumpur, June 2008
Journalism Educators Association conference - Wollongong, NSW December 2008
Journalism Educators Association conference - Perth, WA, December 2010.
Australian and New Zealand Communications Association (ANZCA) conference, Canberra, July 2010.
Australian Journalism Educators Association conference, Sydney, November 2010.
National Rural and Regional Law & Justice Conference, Warrnambool, November 2010.
Research link View Deakin associated research data

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22nd April 2013