School of Humanities and Communication Academic staff

 

Bryce Barker Australian prehistory, Aspects of cultural anthropology
Nathan Beel Counselling, resistance and change; counsellor effectiveness; counselling outcome research
Malcolm Brown Islam, Orientalism and Islamophobia; racism and ethnicity; sociology of religion; religious conversion; pacifism; humour studies; comparative methodology.
Libby Connors Queensland history; legal history; social movement history; environmental history
Catherine Dewhirst Italian history and community-construction, migration and transnational history, historiography, women’s/gender historical experience, biography, family history, European and World histories
Eileen Edmonds Human Services
Alison Feldman  Organisational leadership; change management; community consultation and development; learning organisations; reputation management
Richard Gehrmann Australians in colonial Asia; international relations; Australian foreign relations; Southeast Asian politics and history
Karey Harrison Philosophy of language and science, epistemology, models and metaphor, feminist and political theory, discourses on media, education, environment, economics and power
Anna Hayes Chinese history; gender issues in the PRC; gendered perspectives of human security, and the threats posed by pandemic illnesses such as HIV/AIDS on global human security
Pamela Hewitt Editing and Publishing
Laurie Johnson Cultural studies; literary theory, psychoanalysis, renaissance literature, 18th century literature
Dianne Jones Journalism theory and practice; content analysis; gender representation in the mass media
Eleanor Kiernan The use of multimodal design in hybridised e-learning environments; indigenous students' retention and progression in first year university courses; pedagogy for first year university students; organisational communication
Chris Kossen Phenomenology; discourse analysis; organisations and older workers; organisational communication; participative planning and decision-making; Corporate branding
Lara Lamb Australian stone tool technologies; Changing technologies economies and settlement patterns in pre-European contexts in the Whitsunday region; incorporation of 'devout imagery' as body adornment in historical and contemporary cross-cultural settings
Jill Lawrence Higher education; first year experience; transition and retention; cross-cultural communication; access and equity issues
Chris Lee Australian and post-colonial literature; the history of criticism; space, place and Identity; representation of war; Australian studies, popular literature 
Andrew Mason Theories related to the generation of meaning;  a history of arts in the Toowoomba region; investigating epistemological applications of  media
Robert Mason Social and political memories; Australian migration history; Hispanic identities; cultural landscapes; perceptions of conflict
Kelly McWilliam Film, media and cultural studies; uses and impact of digital media on youth; communities of media consumption and participation; representations and practices of gender and sexuality
Brian Musgrove Victorian and modernist literature; cultural studies
Gabriela Pohl  Cross-cultural issues in education; strategies-based second language instruction
Barbara Ryan Organisational reputation; reputation in local government and its effect on the way local governments service their communities; the value of communication to local government and their communities
John Solas Human Services
Heather Smith Public Relations
Rebecca Te'o News reporting in a changing media landscape; development of layout and design principles for printed and online news pages; feature writing and investigative reporting
Lauretta Wright Community welfare and development; community informatics
Yan Zhao  Teaching Chinese as a foreign language; changes in contemporary China 1949 onwards; Falun Gong and its social impact