STAFF PROFILE
Professor Lisa Waller
Position:
Professor, Digital Communication
College / Portfolio:
Design and Social Context
School / Department:
DSC|School - Media & Communication
Phone:
+61399251027
Email:
lisa.waller@rmit.edu.au
Campus:
City Campus
Contact me about:
Research supervision
Dr Lisa Waller is a Professor of Digital Communication in the School of Media and Communication
Lisa's research and teaching centres on digital journalism. Her current projects concentrate on the role of media, journalism and social media activism in the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse (DP190101282); developing and road-testing an innovations agenda for Australia's country media in the digital era (LP180100813); and generating new knowledge about effective strategies for improving Indigenous representation in the wider news media ecology (LP180100201). In previous Australian Research Council funded projects she has examined the mediatization of Indigenous Affairs policy and deficit discourse in news coverage of Indigenous education. Her work has also provided fresh theoretical insights on local journalism, investigated the practice of media shaming and explored how a 'rural imaginary' shapes media representations of regional Australia. Her book publications include: Local Journalism in a Digital World (Palgrave) and The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia (Intellect)
Research, research degree supervision and teaching
Lisa is interested in supervising students on the following topics: local journalism, digital journalism, news media and Indigeneity, news and marginalised groups and communities.
PhD (Communication) (University of Canberra), Graduate Diploma of Education (University of Newcastle), Graduate Certificate of Higher Education (Deakin University), Bachelor of Arts (Australian National University)
Prior to joining RMIT University, Lisa worked in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University from 2007 to 2019. She brings news industry experience to both teaching and research, having worked in various editorial roles at major news outlets including The Canberra Times, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
- Waller, L.,McCallum, K. (2022). Settler Colonial Representations of Indigenous Disadvantage In: The Routledge Companion to Media and Poverty, Routledge, Oxford, United Kingdom
- Hess, K.,Waller, L. (2021). Local newspapers and coronavirus: conceptualising connections, comparisons and cures In: Media International Australia, 178, 21 - 35
- Mesikämmen, E.,Waller, L.,Burkett, B. (2021). Water wars: A 'critical listening in' to rural radio discourse on a river system in trouble In: Environmental Communication, 15, 369 - 385
- Myers, A.,Waller, L.,Nolan, D.,McCallum, K. (2021). Expanding boundaries in Indigenous news: Guardian Australia, 2018-2020 In: Journalism Practice, , 1 - 22
- Waller, L. (2021). On the road to Room? Rural Australia's storied role in the nation's ice 'epidemic In: Crossroads of Rural Crime, Emerald Publishing Limited, Bingley UK
- Nolan, D.,Waller, L. (2021). Analysing innovation in Indigenous news: Deaths Inside In: Journalism Studies, 22, 1382 - 1399
- Waller, L.,Hess, K. (2020). Moral compass: How a small-town newspaper used silence in a hyper-charged controversy In: Journalism, 21, 574 - 590
- Hess, K.,Waller, L. (2020). Local journalism in Australia: policy debates In: The Routledge Companion to Local Media and Journalism, Routledge, Abingdon, Oxford, UK
- Hess, K.,Waller, L. (2020). Charting the media innovations landscape for regional and rural newspapers In: Australian Journalism Review, 42, 59 - 75
- McCallum, K.,Waller, L. (2020). Un-braiding deficit discourse in Indigenous education news 2008-2018: performance, attendance and mobility In: Critical Discourse Studies, , 1 - 21
5 PhD Current Supervisions and 3 Masters by Research Current Supervisions
- Promissory Democratic Representation: Campaign Promises in Australia (administered by Monash University). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2021 from (2021 to 2024)
- Amplifying Indigenous news: a digital intervention (Administered by University of Canberra). Funded by: ARC Linkage via Other University from (2020 to 2022)
- Media innovation and the civic future of Australia's country press (Administered by Deakin). Funded by: ARC Linkage Project Grants 2018 from (2019 to 2022)
- Breaking silences: media and the Child Abuse Royal Commission (Administered by University of Canberra). Funded by: ARC Discovery Projects 2019 from (2019 to 2022)