Prof Christopher Nash - Researcher Profile

Biography

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.

Qualifications

PHD

Institution: UNSW

Year awarded: 2011

BACHELOR OF ARTS

Institution: Sydney University

Year awarded: 1973

Publications

Journal Articles

Bacon, W., Nash, C., 2012, Playing the media game: The relative (in)visibility of coal industry interests in media reporting of coal as a climate change issue in Australia, Journalism Studies [P], vol 13, issue 2, Routledge, United Kingdom, pp. 243-258.

Bacon, W., Nash, C., 2012, Playing the media game: The relative (in)visibility of coal industry interests in media reporting of coal as a climate change issue in Australia, Journalism Studies [P], vol 13, issue 2, Routledge, UK, pp. 243-258.

Chubb, P.A., Nash, C., 2012, The politics of reporting climate change at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation, Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: Quarterly Journal of Media Research and Resources [P], vol 144, School of English, Media Studies & Art History University of Queensland, St Lucia QLD Australia, pp. 37-48.

Sorensen, R., Fowler, C., Nash, C., Bacon, W., 2010, Addressing the gap in Indigenous health: Government intervention or community governance? A qualitative review, Health Sociology Review [P], vol 19, issue 1, April 2010, EContent Management Pty Ltd, Australia, pp. 20-33.

Roberts, J., Nash, C., 2009, Reporting controversy in health policy: a content and field analysis, Pacific Journalism Review [P], vol 15, issue 2, Pacific Media Centre, AUT University, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 35-53.

Nash, C., 2008, Playing possum: straws in the wind of the blogosphere, Pacific Journalism Review, vol 14, issue 2, School of Communication Studies, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland NZ, pp. 15-36.

Nash, C., 2006, A journalist's perspective on the museum world, Open Museum Journal [P], vol 8, Australian Museums and Galleries Online, Canberra, pp. 1-12.

Nash, C., 2006, Reporting sustainability in the English-language press of Southeast asia, Pacific Journalism Review [P], vol 12, issue 2, Auckland University of Technology, Auckland, New Zealand, pp. 106-135.

Nash, C., 2005, Freedom of the press in the new Australian security state, University of New South Wales Law Journal [P], vol 28, issue 3, UNSW, Faculty of Law, Sydney, NSW, pp. 900-908.

Nash, C., 2004, Stories in distress: three case studies in Australian media coverage of humanitarian crises, Australian Journalism Review [P], vol 26, issue 1, Journalism Education of Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 19-39.

Nash, C., 2003, How the Australian media cover humanitarian issues, Australian Journalism Review [P], vol 25, issue 2, Journalism Education Association of Australia, Adelaide, Australia, pp. 5-30.

Other

Nash, C., 2009, Insights without a framework, Australian Journalism Review, vol 31, issue 1, Journalism Education Association Australia, University of South Australia.

Nash, C., 2007, Journalism, human rights and moral rectitude: letters from a war zone, Australian Review of Public Affairs, vol journal, University of Sydney, Sydney, p. 1.

Nash, C., 2006, Queensland is the limitation, Australian Journalism Review, vol 28, issue 1, Journalism Education Association of Australia, Adelaide, pp. 231-232.

Nash, C., 2003, Determinism, Sage Encyclopedia of Social Science research methods, vol encyclopedia, Sage, London, pp. 256-257.

Nash, C., 2003, Freedom of the press in Australia, Democratic Audit of Australia, vol monograph, Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University, Melbourne.

Postgraduate Research Supervisions

Current Supervision

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

From Village to Metropolis: Lebanese migration to Australia since the 1880s. An examination of the influence of cultural capital in determining the degree to which new settlers have integrated into Australian society.

Supervisors:

Nash, C (Main), Anderson, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

How the digital age of journalism has impacted on the reportage of AFL football and its players.

Supervisors:

Heenan, T (Joint), Nash, C (Joint-co).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

Politics of climate change, financialisation and conservation of forests in the Pacific Islands.

Supervisors:

Nash, C (Main), Anderson, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The Changing Relationships Between The Government And The Media In Vietnam With Respect To Reporti...

Supervisors:

Nash, C (Main), Anderson, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The lived experience of climate change in Australia.

Supervisors:

Nash, C (Main), Anderson, F (Associate).

Program of Study:

(DOCTORATE BY RESEARCH).

Thesis Title:

The role of Chicago in the development of Melbourne 1835-1939.

Supervisors:

Nash, C (Main), Frost, L (Associate).