Researcher Database
A database of those researchers currently working on projects about the history of Australian newspapers, magazines, radio, television, film, advertising, music and games. To search the database, enter any term or name into the search box below.
To add your current project to the database, please send an email stating your name, academic or institutional affilitation and a brief summary of your project, together with keywords, to cmh@mq.edu.au . Please also supply contact details stating whether or not you are happy for these to be published.
| Title | Project Type | Institution | Entry |
|---|---|---|---|
| History of commercial television: Sydney- AILSA MCPHERSON | Television | Independent scholar | View |
| Early Australian TV Comedy - COLLINS, TURNBULL, BYE | Television | La Trobe University | View |
| A history of the idea of mountains in Australia - MICHAEL MEADOWS | Press | Griffith University | View |
| 19th century Australian Masonic Periodicals - NEIL MORSE | Magazine | Independent scholar | View |
| Various projects in newspaper obituary publication - NIGEL STARCK | Press | University of South Australia | View |
| Ryerson Index - GRAHAM, KETTLE, WRIGHT | Press | Ryerson Index | View |
| Globalisation and the media in Australia - JOHN SINCLAIR | Advertising | University of Melbourne | View |
| Australian Screen Comedy - COLLINS, TURNBULL, BYE | Television | La Trobe University | View |
| A History of Australian Television Writing - SUSAN LEVER | Television | University of Sydney | View |
| Finance on Television - GREENFIELD, WILLIAMS | Television | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | View |
| Longitudinal study of print finance journalism (1971-2001)- GREENFIELD, WILLIAMS | Press | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | View |
| Communicating sustainable water uses in regional and local media - KITTY VAN VUUREN | Press | University of Queensland | View |
| Ernest Fisk - JOCK GIVEN | Radio | Swinburne University of Technology | View |
| "Empire to Antipodes": Australian-New Zealand in the Empire/ Commonwealth Press Union (1909-1970) - CRYLE, KAUL | Press | Central Queensland University | View |
| Birch, Carroll and Coyle's Queensland Wintergardens: a study of regional cinema 1910-1970 - DENIS CRYLE | Film | Central Queensland University | View |
| Talkback radio in Australia: policy, programming, publics - LIZ GOULD | Radio | Macquarie University | View |
| PhD Community Radio in Western Australia - SIMON ORDER | Radio | Murdoch University | View |
| Crawfords Oral History Project - BERRYMAN, BLADIER, LEE, TULLY | Television | National Film and Sound Archive | View |
| Broadcasting Empire: the BBC and the British World, 1922-1970 - SIMON POTTER | Cross-media | University of Bristol | View |
| Pacific Radio Archive - DAVID RICQUISH | Radio | Radio Heritage Foundation | View |
| House of Hits - The History of the Alberts Music Publishing Business - JANE ALBERT | Music | Independent scholar | View |
| Television in the post-broadcast era: The role of old and new media in the formation of national communities - GRAEME TURNER | Television | University of Queensland | View |
| Australian Television and Popular Memory: New Approaches to the Cultural History of Media in the Project of Nation-building - TURN | Television | Queensland University of Technology | View |
| Urban Rivalry: Understanding the dynamics of comparison in the development of city identities - VERHOEVEN, MORRIS | Cross-media | Deakin University | View |
| Greek and Italian cinemas and audiences in Australia, 1949-1980 - DEB VERHOEVEN | Film | Deakin University | View |
| Changes in Australian Newspapers' Political reporting in the age of television - RODNEY TIFFEN | Press | University of Sydney | View |
| Media network history and the globalisation of news - PETER PUTNIS | Press | University of Canberra | View |
| The new television technologies of the 1970s - JULIAN THOMAS | Television | Swinburne University of Technology | View |
| The Melbourne Herald newspaper - DAVID DUNSTAN | Press | Monash University | View |
| The ABC in Australian civil society - PHILIP BELL | Television | University of New South Wales | View |
| New Media - ALAN KNIGHT | New-media | University of Technology, Sydney | View |
| A Business and Cultural Biography of TV Executive Reg Grundy - ALBERT MORAN | Television | Griffith University | View |
| Interactive Television: Impact on the Australian TV Industry - MARIA JAKOVLJEVIC | Television | University of Melbourne | View |
| The Dynasties - ROBERT PULLAN | Press | University of Technology, Sydney | View |
| Broadcasters Oral History Project - GERARD DUIGNAN | Radio | Christchurch Polytechnic Institute of Technology | View |
| Crawford Creations: What would we have done without Crawfords? - PHILIP DAVEY | Television | Murdoch University | View |
| Creating Public Opinion: Polls, the Press and Australian Politics since the 1940s - MURRAY GOOT | Press | Macquarie University | View |
| Australian Film Theory and Criticism - VEREVIS, WILLIAMS, KING | Film | Monash University | View |
| David Syme and His Newspapers - ELIZABETH MORRISON | Press | Independent scholar | View |
| G'Day Vung Tau! Australian Military Radio in Vietnam - MARTIN HADLOW | Radio | University of Queensland | View |
| Australian High Society: the exposes of John Dalley (1876-1935)- HELENA KEERS | Press | University of Sydney | View |
| Rupert Murdoch: an investigation of political power - MCKNIGHT, MCNAIR | Cross-media | University of New South Wales | View |
| The Specialty Press - DENNIS BRYANS | Cross-media | Independent scholar | View |
| Emil Voigt and the foundation of 2KY - ROBIN VOIGT | Radio | Independent scholar | View |
| A study of the ABC in Asia and its impact on cultural exchange (1956-2006) - JOHN TEBBUTT | Cross-media | La Trobe University | View |
| Making News: The Berlin Foreign Press Corps Community and Nazism. - MARIANNE HICKS | Press | Monash University | View |
| SA Memory - SA Newspapers - ANOTHONY LAUBE | Press | State Library of South Australia | View |
| What Came Before They Shot It - SALLY JACKSON | Film | Independent scholar | View |
| Cleo magazine and popular feminism in Australia - MEGAN LE MASURIER | Magazine | University of Sydney | View |
| Australian jazz and discourses of Nation - BRUCE JOHNSON | Music | Macquarie University | View |
| Australian voice portraits - ROBERT DAVIDSON | Cross-media | Queensland University of Technology | View |
| Cinema Audiences in Australia Research Project - VERHOEVEN, BOWLES, MALTBY, WALSH | Film | Flinders University | View |
| Minds in the media: New Idealist thought in Australian press and radio from 1880 to 1950 - MARGARET VAN HEEKEREN | Cross-media | Macquarie University | View |
| Child Audiences in the Digital Age - WENDY KEYS | Television | Griffith University | View |
| Prospects and Dilemmas for Public Service Broadcasting: A Comparative Study of Japanese and Australian PSB - ZORANA KOSTIC | Television | ABC TV | View |
| A Companion to the Australian Media - BRIDGET GRIFFEN-FOLEY | Cross-media | Macquarie University | View |
| Printers' Progress - MARGARET REES-JONES | Press | Other | View |
| A history of free-to-air commercial television in Sydney - MADELEINE HASTIE | Television | Macquarie University | View |
| Red Pagan: AG Stephens - A Literary Life - CRAIG MUNRO | Publishing | University of Queensland | View |
| Women's programming in public service broadcasting in Australia, Canada and the UK, 1930-1970 - JUSTINE LLOYD | Radio | Macquarie University | View |
| Travelling Home: A Study of Walkabout, Australia's Geographic Magazine (1934-74) - ROLLS, JOHNSTON | Magazine | University of Tasmania | View |
| The media's role in Australian political history - NICK RICHARDSON | Cross-media | Independent scholar | View |
| Globalizing the Magic System: A History of Advertising Industry Practices in Australia 1959-1989 - SINCLAIR, CRAWFORD, BRENNAN | Advertising | University of Melbourne | View |
| Play It Again: Creating a Playable History of Australasian Digital Games, for Industry, Community and Research Purposes - SWALWELL | New-media | Flinders University | View |
| Australasian Heritage Software Database - SWALWELL, DE VRIES | New-media | Flinders University | View |
| International news in the Australian press 1901-1950 - PETER PUTNIS | Press | University of Canberra | View |
| The local press on Sydney's rural-urban fringe - IAN WILLIS | Press | University of Wollongong | View |
| Sir Keith Murdoch: a biographical reappraisal - TOM D.C. ROBERTS | Cross-media | Macquarie University | View |
| Reality talent shows: dance, work and celebrity - FRANCES BONNER | Television | University of Queensland | View |
| Imperial Designs: Remaking the Institutions for Global Communications - JOCK GIVEN | Cross-media | Swinburne University of Technology | View |
| 'Networks of Influence': exploring Sir Charles Todd's British World - DENIS CRYLE | Cross-media | University of Queensland | View |
| Remaking Australian Politics: Electioneering from the 19th Century to the 21st - MURRAY GOOT | Cross-media | Macquarie University | View |
| Mapping the movies: the changing nature of Australia’s cinema circuits and their audiences 1956-1984 - MALTBY, WALSH, BOWLES, | Film | Flinders University | View |
| Anthony Trollope's Australian Odyssey - NIGEL STARCK | Press | University of South Australia | View |
| Dione Lucas - JILLIAN ADAMS | Television | Central Queensland University | View |
| Political reporting in Australia SALLY YOUNG | Cross-media | University of Melbourne | View |
| Press power in Australia, 1927-2012 SALLY YOUNG | Press | University of Melbourne | View |
| Black-and-white artists of Smith's Weekly - ANTHONY KING | Press | Other | View |
| The Women’s Advocacy Press in New Zealand and Australia, 1888–1905 - JAMES KEATING | Magazine | University of New South Wales | View |
| A history of Australia's capital-city dailies during the colonial era - ROD KIRKPATRICK | Press | Other | View |
| Shining a Light: 50 Years of the Australian Film Institute - FRENCH, POOLE | Film | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | View |
| Womenvision: Women and the Moving Image in Australia LISA FRENCH | Film | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | View |
| Women in the Victorian film, television and related industries: Research report - LISA FRENCH | Film | Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology | View |
| Printer's Progress - MARGARET REES-JONES | Publishing | Other | View |
| Media and Party Leadership Challenges - RODNEY TIFFEN | Cross-media | University of Sydney | View |
| 4ZZZ History project - HEATHER ANDERSON | Radio | University of South Australia | View |
| "The Persistence of Television" - BONNER, JACOBS | Television | University of Queensland | View |
| Switched-on Audiences: Australian Listeners and Viewers - BRIDGET GRIFFEN-FOLEY | Cross-media | Macquarie University | View |
| South Australian Newspaper Historical resources - ANTHONY LAUBE | New-media | State Library of South Australia | View |
| Modern Voices: Women's Speech on Australian Radio, 1923-1966 - CATHERINE HORNE | Radio | Other | View |
| Women Journalists in the World: From Australia, to Australia (working) - PATRICIA CLARKE | Publishing | Other | View |
| Print cultures of the Coral Sea | Magazine | University of Sydney | View |
| The last hurrah of the Catholic Press - ROBERT CAREY | Press | Swinburne University of Technology | View |
| Women and Work at the postwar ABC - KYLIE ANDREWS | Cross-media | University of Technology, Sydney | View |