STAFF PROFILE
Professor Lisa Waller
Position:
Associate Dean, 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.
- Hess, K.,Blakston, A.,Lai, J.,McAdam, A.,Waller, L. (2023). Untapped potential? Exploring the 'latent' local newspaper reader in digital spaces In: Journal of Communication Inquiry, , 1 - 18
- McCallum, K.,Waller, L.,Myers, A. (2023). Revelation, reckoning and recovery: Bearing witness proximally in local journalism In: Journalism Studies, , 1 - 19
- Waller, L.,Gleave, J. (2023). [Can’t] Delete: an intervention in mainstream news media representations of image-based sexual abuse In: Media International Australia, , 1 - 14
- Blakston, A.,Waller, L. (2023). If it matters to you, then it can count as news: The personal needs and agency shaping teen news definitions In: Media Education Research Journal, 12, 1 - 15
- Thomas, A.,Nolan, D.,McCallum, K.,Waller, L.,McDuffie, M. (2023). First Nations media in the Closing the Gap era: Navigating the new self-determination In: Media International Australia, , 1 - 15
- Dreher, T.,Waller, L. (2022). Enduring silence: racialized news values, white supremacy and a national apology for child sexual abuse In: Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45, 1671 - 1692
- Waller, L. (2022). Bargaining with local journalism's value In: The Routledge Companion to News and Journalism, Routledge, Abingdon, United Kingdom
- Hess, K.,Waller, L.,Lai, J. (2022). In press - Examining audience perspectives on local newspaper futures In: Journalism, , 1 - 19
- Waller, L.,Clifford, K. (2022). Courts and the media In: Australian Courts, Palgrave Macmillan, London, United Kingdom
- Waller, L. (2022). After the silence: media reporting of child sexual abuse in the wake of a royal commission In: University of Canberra Canberra
1 Masters by Research Completions8 PhD Current Supervisions and 1 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 2023)
- 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 2023)