Dr Stephanie Brookes is senior lecturer in Journalism and Deputy Director of the Constructive Institute, Asia Pacific Hub.

She researches media, journalism and politics, focusing on election campaigns, political journalism and journalistic identity, fact-checking and editorial cartoons. She has a particular interest in questions of identity and belonging in news media and political discourse.

Dr Brookes is currently a chief investigator on the two Australian Research Council Discovery Projects.

She is a CI on Cartoon Nation: Australian Editorial Cartooning - Past, Present and Future, with colleagues Associate Professor Richard Scully (Lead CI- UNE), Professor Robert Phiddian (Flinders) and Lindsay Foyle (Australian Cartoonists' Association) [DP230101348]. 

She is also CI on Australian Journalism, Trauma and Community with colleagues Associate Professor Fay Anderson (Lead CI - Monash), Dr Deb Anderson (Monash), Associate Professor Laura Jobson (Monash) and Associate Professor Alex Wake (RMIT) [DP240101293].

She has published widely in journal articles and book chapters, including co-editing the May 2018 special edition of Media International Australia on press gallery and political journalism in Australia, and is the author of Politics, Media and Campaign Language: Australia's Identity Anxiety (Anthem Press, 2017).

• Journalism, identity and representation
• Fact-checking and journalism
• Journalism, trauma and community
• Election campaign communication and coverage
• Australian editorial cartoons
• National identity and belonging
• Political communication
• Celebrity politics and populism
• Australian and US politics and media