Chris joined Monash University as Professor of Journalism in February 2008. For the previous ten years he had been Director of the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism (ACIJ) at the University of Technology, Sydney.
Chris is particularly interested in the interface between intellectual and creative media activity. He has worked professionally in radio and television at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, and as an independent documentary film producer/director. He has won the Walkley Award for Journalism, and his best-known documentary film Philippines, my Philippines had international television and film festival release. An earlier film, Brigadistas, was shown at film festivals in Australia and Latin America. Both titles are available through the National Film and Sound Archive
Chris was the Director and Co-Producer with Shirley Alexander at the Institute for Interactive Media and Learning (IML) of the Australia Street Archive, which was a collaborative WWW social documentary between UTS and the Australian Museum. Chris was the Australian leader of the Tumblong project, a collaborative WWW venture between the IML at UTS and the Ruskin School of Drawing and Fine Art at Oxford University, working with cultural institutions in both countries. Tumblong involved the collaborative production of art on the Web about the relationship between the two countries by artists working in the UK and Australia, and was financially supported by the Australia Council for the Arts and the Arts Council of England.
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