Elaine McKewon is a third-year journalism PhD student at the University of Technology, Sydney examining coverage of climate science in Australian newspapers during 1996-2010. The primary aim of her study is to explain how the scientific consensus on climate change was reconstructed as a 'scientific debate' in the Australian news media.
Experience
–present
PhD Student, University of Technology Sydney
2010–present
Tutor, Communication Theory, University of Technology, Sydney
–present
Research Associate, Australian Centre for Independent Journalism, University of Technology, Sydney
Education
2009
University of Technology, Sydney, Grad Dip Journalism
1993
University of Western Australia, BA (Hons) Geography