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Biography

Aneta is a media researcher and lecturer in Communications and Media Studies, in the School of Media, Film and Journalism (MFJ) at Monash University, Melbourne. She has researched in the areas of media and everyday life, social inclusion, consumption, and environmental sustainability, working with a range of scholars and partners across not-for-profit, government and commercial sectors.

Aneta's current research focuses on digital and automated technologies and work futures; thrift/secondhand/circular economies; environmental media. 

She has taught media units in both undergraduate and postgraduate programs, covering topics related to the role of media in social life and social change; media analytics; research training. Aneta has supervised students across disciplines of media and communication, the sociology of consumption and design.

She is part of the 'Media and Environment' research group at MFJ. 

Before joining Monash University in 2016, she had been a researcher at the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne, where she worked as a postdoctoral research fellow on an ARC-funded Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation collaborative, longitudinal study of youth media social enterprise, and later on was a chief investigator on an interdisciplinary research project funded by the Cooperative Research Centre for Low Carbon Living, examining the role of media and communications in helping promote sustainable home renovations. 

Aneta is co-author of two book manuscripts: Using Media for Social Innovation (Intellect, 2018, with Ellie Rennie), and Grand Designs: Consumer Markets and Home-Making (Palgrave, 2018, with Esther Milne and Jenny Kennedy), and co-editor of the cultural history of skiing (Palgrave, 2018, with Philipp Strobbl).

 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 7 - Affordable and Clean Energy
  • SDG 8 - Decent Work and Economic Growth
  • SDG 11 - Sustainable Cities and Communities
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 13 - Climate Action
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Research area keywords

  • Media Studies
  • Consumption
  • Sustainability

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