From a successful ARC Linkage grant to selection for the ABC TOP 5 Media Residency Program, see where Faculty of Arts academics have been recognised this month.

GRANTS

Australian Research Council (ARC) Linkage Projects scheme

Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, from the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, has been awarded an ARC Linkage grant for the project ‘The ABC, its Archives and its Audiences’. The grant, totalling $362,322, aims to enable deeper understandings of the role of Australia’s principal public service broadcaster in the lives of audience members across the country, and the community needs and interests that have shaped it. The project, in partnership with the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and the National Archives of Australia, is significant as it will uncover and interpret paper records relating to listeners and viewers during the broadcaster’s first 50 years. Expected outcomes include an enlarged and more discoverable media archive for the benefit of researchers, industry and all Australians; an innovative audience-centred approach to the ABC’s history; and enhanced academic, archival and media collaborations.

ACHIEVEMENTS

ABC TOP 5 Media Residency Program

Dr Geraldine Fela, from the Department of History and Archaeology, has been selected as a participant in the ABC TOP 5 Media Residency Program in the ‘Humanities’ category. Each year, the program puts out a call to Australia's higher education sector and research organisations to find the top 5 early career scholars in three categories: Humanities, Science and the Arts. The researchers-in-residence spend two weeks working alongside the ABC's award-winning journalists and producers, learning first-hand about the craft of delivery through radio, television and digital platforms. Geraldine’s research expertise sits at the intersection of labour history, histories of gender and sexuality and social history.

Appointment to the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB)

Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, from the Department of Media, Communications, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, has been appointed the NSW chair and section editor of the Australian Dictionary of Biography (ADB). The ADB is Australia’s pre-eminent dictionary of national biography. It is a national, co-operative enterprise founded and maintained by the Australian National University. Bridget has been a member of the NSW Working Party since 2000 and has 16 published entries in the ADB.