Dr Janine Little

Published the book, Journalism Ethics and Law: Stories of Media Practice, Oxford University Press, 2013. Shortlisted for the Australian Book Publishers 2014 Educational Publishing Award in the Tertiary (Wholly Australian): Scholarly Contribution Category.

Led an industry linkage between APN News and Media and USQ to design, develop and run the APN Narrative Journalism Online Training Program for journalists in regional Qld and NSW, which secured a $20,000 Vice Chancellor's Development Fund grant , 2006-07 (with Professor Michael Sankey, CDU, formerly USQ)

Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Achievement,  Graduate Certificate Tertiary Teaching and Learning, 2007 (USQ)

Queensland Country Press Association Award for Individual Journalistic Excellence First Prize 2000

Current research focus is on the role of mediated culture and story-telling in men's violence against women with its horrors, and disruptive possibility.

As a First In Family university graduate, I am especially interested in working with students from working-class and culturally marginalised communities, on projects related to the topics mentioned here.

Currently supervising Natalia Vedric's PhD project, "Communism, Conspiracy and Croatians: An Australian Story" after supervising her Bachelor of Communication (First Class Honours) dissertation, “Contemporary True Crime: Do Victims have a Voice?” A Textual Analysis of Making a Murderer (Season 1 2015) and The Jinx (2015).” See publications for an article published out of this work.

General supervision interests are in media and cultural studies, writing and literature by women, First Nations peoples, and working-class people in transnational settings, media law/ethics issues, and gender politics and culture.

Honours, Masters and Doctoral supervisions and examinations have included projects on  true crime TV and film representations of gendered violence, domestic violence in literary journalism, media representations of litigated sexual harassment, feminist writing and humour, Iranian women's literature,  feminist literary studies, media representations of violence against women, and migrant diasporic Australian experiences of culture and politics.

Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association 

Working Class Studies Association

Through more than 25 years of sessional and full-time continuing academic appointments following and overlapping work as a journalist, teaching has ranged across media and cultural studies, journalism, media law, media ethics, professional writing, literary studies, and gender studies.

During more than 15 years at Deakin, teaching speciality has been media law and ethics, which has generated a scholarly book publication and international media consultancy.

Previosuly taught in research-led teaching areas such as Indigenous Cultural Awareness (QUT, Murdoch), Aboriginal Tutorial Assistance Scheme (UQ), Literary Theory (UQ),  Creative Writing (QUT), Women, Culture, Race (UQ), Australian Literature (UQ, Murdoch), Journalism Ethics and Issues (QUT), Media Law (UQ), News Writing (QUT, UQ, USQ), and more.

At Deakin, teaching/unit chairing/development work has included introductory journalism with news reporting focus,  the core unit in media law and ethics, undergraduate and postgraduate feature writing, postgraduate news writing/investigative and literary journalism, and assessment panel roles on various communication and literature units.

ACC213 Dilemmas Defamation Deception and Disinformation (undergraduate core in media law and ethics) -- Designed, developed, Unit Chair, taught 2009-2024.

ACC717 Media Law and Ethics -- Designed, developed,Unit Chair, taught 2009-2024.

ACC700 Professional Communication Internship -- Unit Chair, 2023

ALJ722 Narrative and Investigative Journalism -- Designed, developed, Unit Chair and taught, 2008-2014.

ALJ728 Feature Writing -- Unit Chair, taught, 2020-2021.

ALJ111 Introduction to Journalism A -- taught, 2013

ALJ112 Introduction to Journalism B -- Developed, Unit Chair, taught, 2008-2012

ALJ216 Feature Writing -- taught, 2018

ALJ716 Writing the News --Redesigned Online Materials, Topic Structure, Reading List, and Assessment Suite from December 2022 and as Unit Chair 20222-2024.

Media Law and Ethics

News Reporting

Media and cultural studies

Men's violences against women

Gender and media culture

Domestic and Family violence in film, TV, news, creative writing -- and social media reactions to real cases. Gender, class, ethnicity and public understanding of social justice. Contempt of Court risks in media coverage and commentary Media Law and Ethics

• Communication
• Culture
• Ethics
• Gender issues
• Journalism
• Literature & creative writing
• Violence
• Women's issues

Paper presentations at various international conferences since 1993, including the American Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Australian and New Zealand American Studies Association

Association for the Study of Australian Literature

Journalism Education and Research Association Australia

Journalism Education and Research Association New Zealand

Australian and New Zealand Communication Association

International Feminist Book Fair (Conference Section)

Australian Women's and Gender Studies Biannual Conference (most recently, Nov 28-30, 2022, University of Melbourne --

* Presentation of co-authored paper (with Natalia Vedric), titled, "#MeToo, Amber Heard and Navigating Anger/vitriol in Digital Spaces".

Researcher Member, Deakin University Human Research Ethics Committee 2020 >

Asia Pacific Broadcasting Union/UNESCO Global Media Defence Fund, Commissioned Presenter on Journalism Ethics -- 2022.

Research Peer Reviewing for organisations such as:

Australian National Research Organisation for Women's Safety

The New Zealand Government's Marsden Fund (Research)

Feminist Media Studies

Hecate: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Women's Liberation

Women's Studies International Forum

Communication Culture and Critique

Information, Communication and Society

Palgrave Macmillan

2022 Most Distinguished Paper Award, Australian Women's and Gender Studies Association

Dean's Commendation for Outstanding Achievement, Faculty of Education, USQ, 2007 (Grad.Cert. Tertiary Teaching)

Qld Country Press Association Award for Individual Journalistic Excellence 2000

The George Essex Evans Prize (UQ, 1991)

The Venerable Archdeacon Edward Leo Hayes Scholarship (UQ, 1993)

Australian Postgraduate Award (UQ 1993)