Media
Dr Nicole Matthews
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Lectureremail: nicole.matthews@scmp.mq.edu.au phone: (02) 9850 2152 fax: (02) 9850 2101 location: Y3A 253 |
BACKGROUND
Nicole Matthews graduated from Adelaide University with a BA (Hons) 1991, and undertook her PhD at Griffith University, completing her doctorate in 1997. During her time as a research student she served as the Women's Officer for the Council of Australian Postgraduate Associations. She lectured in media and cultural studies at Liverpool John Moores University in the UK from 1995 to 2007, where she also completed a Graduate Diploma in Education. She was on the executive of the Women's Studies Network (UK) for some years and has been co-convenor of the list-serv Surveillance since 1997. Nicole was appointed as a lecturer across Media and Critical and Cultural Studies at Macquarie in July 2007 - this year she is also teaching CUL309 Internship in Cultural Research and a cross-departmental Honours unit entitled Mediated Auto/biographies.
TEACHING
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MAS115 - Academic Cultures
RESEARCH AREAS
Nicole's research interests converge around the relation between media, practices of the self and formations of citizenship within neo-liberal political cultures. Her research areas include feminist cultural studies, Deaf and disability studies, popular genres and visual cultures. Along with Sherman Young and Jemina Napier and community partners the Deaf Education Network, in 2008 she was awarded Macquarie Research Grant funding for a project entitled "Participatory media and Deaf people: using digital storytelling to identify multimedia use and accessibility". Other recent research includes a project following the career trajectories of media and cultural studies graduates, and work tracing the outcomes of the UK BigLottery funded In the Picture project promoting inclusive children's media.
She has an active interest in researching learning and teaching, and has presented papers on inclusive curricula, employability, volunteering and problem based learning at a number of international conferences and colloquia. Her two most recent projects in this area, funded by the UK's Higher Education Academy subject networks, have involved exploring collaborative relationships between universities, their students and community organisations and charities.
PUBLICATIONS
(2009) "Contesting representations of disabled children in picture-books: visibility, the body and the social model of disability" Children's Geographies special issue on Contested Bodies of Childhood Vol.7 No.1 pp.37-50(with Irene Hall, David Hall, and Pat Green) (2009) "The role of volunteering in the transitions from higher education to work" from Brooks, R. ed Transitions from Education to Work: New Perspectives from Europe and Beyond, Palgrave, pp.150-168
(2009) "Teaching the 'invisible' disabled students in the classroom: disclosure, inclusion and the social model of disability" from Teaching in Higher Education Vol.14 No.3, pp.229-240
(2008) "Conflicting perceptions and complex change: promoting web supported learning in an arts and social science faculty" from Learning, Media and Technology Vol 33 No 1, pp.35-44
(2008) "Creating visible children?" M/C journal, Vol.11 No.3
(2008) "Picturing Difference: discourses of disability in illustrated children's stories by parents of autistic children" from Popular Narrative Media, Vol.1 No.1, pp.59-66
(2007) "Confessions to a new public: Video Nation Shorts" Media, Culture & Society 2007 29: 435-448
(with Nickianne Moody) (eds) (2007) Judging a Book by its Cover: fans, publishers, designers and the marketing of books, Ashgate
(2007) (with Susan Clow) "Putting disabled children in the picture: promoting inclusive children's books and media" International Journal of Early Childhood Vol 39 No.2, pp.67-78
(2006) "Collins and the Commonwealth: publishers' publicity and the twentieth century circulation of popular fiction titles" in Hinks, J. and Armstrong, C. eds. Worlds of Print: Diversity in the Book Trade, Oak Knoll Press/British Library
(2002) "Surveying the self: broadcast home video and technologies of the self" from Janet Harbord and Jan Campbell eds. Temporalities: autobiography and everyday life, Manchester: Manchester University Press
(2000) Comic Politics: gender in Hollywood comedy after the new right, Manchester, Manchester University Press
(2000) "Kitsch on the fringe: reimaginings of suburbia in recent Australian comedy" from Roger Webster (ed) Expanding Suburbia, Berghahn Books
(2000) (with Farah Mendlesohn) "The cartesian novum of Third Rock from the Sun: gendering human bodies and alien minds" from Elyce Helford (ed) Fantasy Girls: Women in U.S. Science Fiction and Fantasy Television of the 1990s, Rowman and Littlefield
(1997) "Going Public?: asking different questions about the internet", pp. 3-5 from Make: the magazine of women's art, December