Special sessions

Keynote session

Wednesday 28 August

Title: Research: making it real: how to make your research matter.

Keynote speaker: Jacqueline Ewart, Griffith University

Professor Jacqui Ewart’s research focuses on communication across various phases of extreme climate change events (including disasters) and the involvement of politicians in these types of events. She also researches news media representations of various minority groups including Muslims and Indigenous Australians. Professor Ewart has held nationally competitive funding including $1.26 million for the award winning Reporting Islam Project in which 1000 journalists, journalism educators and journalism students were trained in how to be more informed when covering stories about Muslims and their faith. She has authored, co-authored and edited eight books, two of which were published in 2020. Professor Jacqui Ewart was a journalist and media manager for more than a decade. She has worked as an academic for the past 27 years.