Gail Phillips
Associate Professor
School of Arts
Murdoch University
Australia
Biography
Gail Phillips is an Emeritus Associate Professor of journalism at Murdoch University.She spent fourteen years working in commercial and public sector radio at local and national levels. At Murdoch University She has held the positions of Head of the School of Media Communication & Culture, Chair of the Media Studies program, and Director of Research for the Division of Arts. She has also served on the Murdoch University Senate. She has co-author with Mia Lindgren of Australian Broadcast Journalism, published by Oxford University Press (2002, 2006, 2013) and and am also co-author of Journalism Ethics at Work (Pearson Longman, 2005). She was lead researcher on the Reporting Diversity project funded by the Department of Immigration and Citizenship and am currently Chief Investigator on the Australian Asbestos Network research project funded by the National Health and Medical Research Council. She is on the editorial advisory board for the forthcoming (2014) Companion to the Australian Media. I am on the editorial boards for the Radio Journal and the Journal of Applied Journalism & Media Studies.
Research Interest
Broadcast journalism, broadcast law, journalism ethics, narrative, reporting diversity, practice-led and practice-based research
Publications
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Phillips, G., (2013), ERA 2012: Lose a battle, win the war - the future for journalism research, Australian Journalism Review, 35, 1, pages 7 - 10.
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Knowles, S., Phillips, G., Lidberg, J., (2013), The framing of the global financial crisis 2005-2008: A cross-country comparison of the US, UK and Australia, Australian Journalism Review, 35, 2, pages 59 - 72.
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Phillips, G., (2014), The production-based PhD: An action research model for supervisors, Quality Assurance in Education, 22, 4, pages 370 - 383.
