TY - JOUR
T1 - Journalism research and practice in Australian universities
AU - Lester, Libby
N1 - Funding Information:
This is a problem that belongs to the discipline as a whole. The field produces quality work that is reflected in increasing success in winning nationally competitive Australian Research Council funding, including Future Fellowships, Discovery and Indigenous Discovery project grants and investment in joint industry-university Linkage research. But, overall, it produces too little of this research. There is no comparative international data about Australian presence in the influential international journals that regularly publish on journalism and news media (for example, Journalism Studies, Journalism Practice and Journalism, plus the US and UK media and communications journals). However, Michael Bromley and Regan Neal’s (2011) survey of journalism academics in Australia provides a hint, finding that on average surveyed academics published only one article each per year, internationally or otherwise. There are also few examples of journalism produced by Australian academics and appearing on Australian or international media or in bookshops that prove the quality of our research, exemplify what we mean by practice-as-research and have international influence in the field.
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PY - 2015/7
Y1 - 2015/7
N2 - This article discusses the current state of journalism research in Australian universities. It does this within the context of the practice-as-research debate and the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. It asks how journalism can confirm a position as a significant research discipline, where programs and staff meet industry and university needs, receive recognition and career advancement when deserved and produce research with impact. It poses a series of questions that it argues require urgent addressing if the discipline is to avoid an unnec-essary and potentially stifling traditional research/practice divide, and ends by offering suggestions as to how the staffing needs of journalism teaching programs in Australian universities might be fulfilled while also ensuring the discipline generates internationally recognisable and methodologically diverse research.
AB - This article discusses the current state of journalism research in Australian universities. It does this within the context of the practice-as-research debate and the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. It asks how journalism can confirm a position as a significant research discipline, where programs and staff meet industry and university needs, receive recognition and career advancement when deserved and produce research with impact. It poses a series of questions that it argues require urgent addressing if the discipline is to avoid an unnec-essary and potentially stifling traditional research/practice divide, and ends by offering suggestions as to how the staffing needs of journalism teaching programs in Australian universities might be fulfilled while also ensuring the discipline generates internationally recognisable and methodologically diverse research.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85017061111
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:85017061111
SN - 0810-2686
VL - 37
SP - 179
EP - 188
JO - Australian Journalism Review
JF - Australian Journalism Review
IS - 1
ER -