Dr Alexandra Wake
Programs Manager, Journalism
Programs Manager, Journalism
DSC | School of Media and Communication
Email: alex.wake@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 9749
Campus: Melbourne City
DSC | School of Media and Communication
Email: alex.wake@rmit.edu.au
Phone: +61 39925 9749
Campus: Melbourne City
Alexandra Wake is Program Manager for the Graduate Diploma in Journalism at RMIT University and the elected President of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia. An Associate Professor in Journalism, Alex is an active leader, educator and researcher in journalism. Her research, teaching and practice sits at the nexus of journalism practice, journalism education, equality, diversity and mental health.
Dr Wake has taught journalism at RMIT, Deakin University, Dubai Women's College, and was a trainer on international aid projects including at the South African Broadcasting Corporation. Before turning full time to the academy, she spent more than 25 years working for broadcast and print international news agencies in Australia, the Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Dr Wake has been an education advisor for Mindframe for Journalists since 2012 and was a Dart Centre for Journalism and Trauma Academic Fellow in 2011. She is also part of the team of researchers in "The International UNESCO UniTWIN Network on Gender, Media and ICTs" promoting and developing international co-participative projects together with the National Autonomous University of Mexico. With a team, she has been awarded a Discovery Grant in 2023 to work on an historical study of Australian Journalism and Trauma.
Before turning full time to the academy, she spent decades working for broadcast and print international news agencies in Australia, the Asia Pacific and the Middle East.
Dr Wake has worked for the ABC, ABC Radio Australia, ABC Australia Pacific, Australian Provisional Newspapers, Independent Newspapers (Ireland) and has written extensively for a range of publications including The Conversation.
Publications
Projects
Awards
Journalism Studies, 22, 399 - 417
Nguyen, J., Valadkhani, A., Nguyen, A., Wake, A. (2021).
Australian Journalism Review, 43, 81 - 87
Weng, E., Wake, A. (2021).
Enriching Higher Education Students’ Learning through Post-work Placement Interventions, Springer Nature, Cham.
Wake, A. (2020).
Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia
2018 - 2022
UNESCO - World Journalism Education Council
2021 - 2022
Current topics/projects include:
Recipients: Alexandra Wake
Recipients: Alexandra Wake
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business - Artwork 'Sentient' by Hollie Johnson, Gunaikurnai and Monero Ngarigo.
Acknowledgement of Country
RMIT University acknowledges the people of the Woi wurrung and Boon wurrung language groups of the eastern Kulin Nation on whose unceded lands we conduct the business of the University. RMIT University respectfully acknowledges their Ancestors and Elders, past and present. RMIT also acknowledges the Traditional Custodians and their Ancestors of the lands and waters across Australia where we conduct our business.
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