Damien is a television production culture researcher completing his PhD at Swinburne University of Technology. His research interests span production culture, screen (particularly television), media, culture, and gender and sexuality. His PhD research investigates the influence of production culture processes on gender and sexually diverse representations in Australian scripted television.
Damien holds a Master of Arts (Writing) from Swinburne University of Technology (in Melbourne) and a Bachelor of Communications (PR) from Griffith University (in Brisbane). His study has always centred on queer representation and understanding through media, fuelled by his own experience of growing up queer and isolated in regional Victoria.
Damien teaches media studies, screen studies and communications at Swinburne University of Technology and Swinburne Online Learning. He is also working as a research assistant on the Australian Children’s Television Cultures research project. ACTC investigates the role of Aussie kids’ TV in our lives.
Experience
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2024–presentTutor, Swinburne University of Technology
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2021–presentPhD Candidate, Swinburne University of Technology
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2017–2023Tutor, Swinburne Online
Education
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2022Swinburne University of Technology, Graduate Certificate of Research and Innovation Management
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2017Swinburne University of Technology, Master of Arts (writing)
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2014Griffith University, Bachelor of Communications
Publications
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2024Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and nonbinary representation on Australian scripted television in the 2000s and 2010s, Media International Australia
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2023Meet Cute in the Margins: Establishing Gay Community Contexts in the Gay Romcom, Senses of Cinema
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