Biography
Chris holds a PhD in Politics from Monash University and is a respected journalist, researcher and academic.
Chris has been published in The Age and Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, The Courier-Mail, The Canberra Times, Crikey, Business Spectator, The Monthly, Overland and Arena Magazine. Between 1999-2009 he served as both a co-editor and the online editor of the highly regarded Arena Magazine.
His latest book is Raising Girls Who Like Themselves co-written with his wife Kasey Edwards and published by Penguin Random House.
Chris has co-authored The Chess Raven Chronicles, a young adult fantasy fiction series with his wife Kasey Edwards under the pen name Violet Grace. The books in the series are The Girl Who Fell and The Girl Who Chose, published by Black Inc.
In 2013 he received an Office Learning and Teaching National Citation for Outstanding Contribution to Student Learning for his work in developing www.upstart.net.au, a magazine for emerging journalists.
Read more on Christopher's profilePublications
Bringing Up Boys Who Like Themselves
Kasey Edwards, Christopher Scanlon
(2023), Melbourne, Vic., JO3
C Scanlon
(2021), Vol. 43, pp. 31-42, Australian Journalism Review, Bristol, Eng., C1
The Girl Who Chose : The Chess Raven Chronicles
Violet Grace, Christopher Scanlon, Kasey Edwards
(2019), pp. 1-401, The Girl Who Chose : The Chess Raven Chronicles, Melbourne, Vic., JO3
Silvia McCormack, Christopher Scanlon
(2017), pp. 101-126, Teaching and learning entrepreneurship in higher education, Faringdon, Eng., B1
Renegotiating Community Life: Arts, agency, inclusion and wellbeing
Martin Mulligan, Christopher Scanlon, Nicky Welch
(2008), Vol. 1, pp. 48-72, Gateways: International Journal of Community Research and Engagement, Sydney, N.S.W., C1-1
Creating Community Celebrations, Arts and Wellbeing Within and Across Local Communities
Martin Mulligan, Kim Humphery, Paul James, Christopher Scanlon, Pia Smith, Nicky Welch
(2006), Melbourne, Vic., A1-1
Theorizing the decline of linguistic diversity
Christopher Scanlon, Michael Singh
(2006), Vol. 2006, pp. 1-24, International Journal of the Sociology of Language, Berlin, Germany, C1-1
Michael Singh, Christopher Scanlon
(2003), Vol. 8, pp. 8-17, 3L Language, Linguistics and Literature: The Southeast Asian Journal of English Language Studies, Selangor, Malaysia, C1-1
Christopher Scanlon
(2001), Vol. 36, pp. 481-498, Australian Journal of Political Science, London, Eng., C1-1
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