I am an international award-winning arts journalist and currently, a senior lecturer in journalism. As a member of Monash’s Gender and Media Lab, I have published widely in relation to net radio, journalism safety, feminist musicology, and reporting on sexual violence in music and media spaces across the Global North and Global South. I am on the Editorial Board of a Q1 journal, 'Journalism Practice'.
Published as a book, Virtual Radio Ga Ga in 2012, my Ph.D. received the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) and Hampton Press (New York) prestigious publication award. Considered the first monograph about the net-only radio phenomenon, my book broke new ground in the internet, digital, and radio studies, in regard to institutional, theoretical subcultural contexts, and digital radio regulatory measures.
I have also presented regularly in the Journalism stream at the Annual International Association for Media and Communications Research Conferences (IAMCR), in Barcelona, Paris, Cairo, Mexico City, Hyderabad, Montréal, Madrid, and Kenya; and at the annual conferences organised by the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia.
Since 2014, I have been the only Australian journalist scholar invited to moderate music media panels at the renowned international music conference, South by South West (SXSW) in Austin, Texas (USA).
In 2015, I was the only Australian journalist scholar invited to present my research at the UNESCO and UN Meeting Agenda on the Safety of Journalists at a special meeting in Montreal (Canada).
Since 2018, I have edited two special journal editions about sexual violence and safety in journalism and the author of 5 books (3 monographs and 2 co-authored and co-edited collections) and many chapters and peer-reviewed, journal articles. My research has been published in Australian Journalism Review, Australian Journalism Monographs, Journalism Practice, Global Media Journal, Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, and the Journal of Radio and Audio Media.
My 2019 monograph, The Great Music City, (Palgrave: London), considered the first global study of the music cities discourse, was the finalist for 'Best Education/Academic Book' at the International Book Festival that year.
In 2022, my research articles about the Safety of Journalists have been cited a few times in UNESCO, Academic consultation report and recommendations:10th anniversary of the UN Plan of Action on the Safety of Journalists and the Issue of Impunity.
In 2022, my research articles about #MeToo and #meNOMore in the music industry were cited in the 2022 UN Report, Mapping the nexus: media reporting of violence against girls and the normalization of violence. A joint report by UNICEF and UN Women.
In 2022-2023, member of panels about "Reporting on Violence against Women in the Global North and Global South at the annual conferences for the International Communications Association (ICA) and Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) in Detroit, and Washington D.C. (USA) and Toronto (Canada).
(2010). Virtual Radio, International Association of Media& Communications Research & Hampton Book Prize (2019).The Great Music City, (Palgrave). Finalist, Best Education/Academic Book, International Book Festival.