Professor Lisa Waller
Details
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College: School of Media & Communication
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Department: School - Media & Communication
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Campus: City Campus Australia
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lisa.waller@rmit.edu.au
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ORCID: 0000-0002-2689-8010
Open to
- Media enquiries
- Industry Projects
- Mentoring (long-term)
- Membership of an advisory committee
About
Professor Lisa Waller is the Associate Dean of Communication in the School of Media and Communication.
Lisa's research and PhD supervision practice centres on Journalism. She has been a chief investigator on 5 Australian Research Council projects, including Discovery and Linkage grants. She is currently the leading chief investigator on the DP 'Democratic Promissory Representation: Election Promises in Australia', which has a focus on the role of political journalism in public perceptions of government performance. Her previous work has contributed fresh theoretical insights on First Nations peoples and news and local journalism. Lisa has also investigated the practice of media shaming and explored how a 'rural imaginary' shapes media representations of regional Australia. Her book publications include: Local Journalism in a Digital World (Palgrave) and The Dynamics of News and Indigenous Policy in Australia (Intellect).
Industry experience:
Prior to joining RMIT University, Lisa worked in the School of Communication and Creative Arts at Deakin University from 2007 to 2019. She brings news industry experience to both teaching and research, having worked in various editorial roles at major news outlets including The Canberra Times, The Australian and The Australian Financial Review.
Research fields
- 4701 Communication and media studies
UN sustainable development goals
- 16 Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
- 4 Quality Education
- 5 Gender Equality
- 10 Reduced Inequalities
Supervisor projects
- The death knock - understanding why and how journalists approach the bereaved for stories about loss and grief
- 1 Jun 2023
- What the broadcast voice reveals and the role of the empathic and vulnerable self when the creative practice and the personal intersect
- 28 Apr 2023
- Peeping and Posting: Understanding image-based sexual abuse and non-consensual content on and offline
- 27 May 2022
- Towards algorithmic literacy: exploring how young Australians understand news algorithms.
- 14 Jan 2022
- Translating academic research on election promises to publicly accessible news media
- 3 Dec 2021
- The emotional dispatch: Exploring the foreign correspondent’s experience and practice through creative non-fiction.
- 23 Nov 2021
- From Screen Celebrity to Social Media Influencer.
- 12 Jul 2021
- Meta and third-party fact checking: an insider's perspective on journalism's fight against misinformation
- 30 Mar 2021
- The power dynamics of the human interest story
- 15 Mar 2021
- Peonies Attract Ants: Housing Emotions in Uncanny Narratives
- 9 Mar 2021
- Ceremony of Restoration: A Practice-Based Experiment in Civil Celebrancy
- 28 Jan 2021
Teaching interests
Supervision interests:
Lisa is currently supervising PhD and Master of Research projects. Her students are investigating a range of topics centred on news media and texts. These include:
- Fact checking
- Journalism practice (eg. the 'death knock')
- Teenagers and news algorithms
- Foreign correspondence
Research interests
- Journalism
- Politcal Communication
- Fact checking
- First Nations and news
- News Media representation
- Creative practice research
