Research Support Staff

CCR has a growing cohort of research support staff (comprising research associates, research assistants and research officers). Research support staff bring a wide range of interdisciplinary skills and interests to their roles, contributing significantly to the innovative and collaborative research that is characteristic of CCR. 

Dr Kylie Brass

Kylie Brass is a research officer currently working on a project with Professor David Rowe examining strategies adopted by universities to manage public academic interventions. She completed her PhD, Going Public: Pedagogy Beyond the Academy, in the School of English, Art History, Film and Media at the University of Sydney in 2006. Her research interests include academic culture, public intellectualism, pedagogy, media policy, and contemporary American literary culture. She co-edited the book Anatomies of Violence (RIHSS: The University of Sydney, 2000).  

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Reena Dobson

Reena Dobson is a research officer across CCR. Rather than providing project-specific research assistance, her role provides centre-wide research support, including research project administration, Department of Education, Science and Training (DEST) publication returns administration,  benchmarking collation and event management and public relations support. Reena is in the final stages of her PhD, provisionally entitled, A Sociological Analysis of Inter-Ethnic Relationships in Mauritius, a Multicultural Island, which explores the intersections of ethnicity, national identity, tolerance and cosmopolitanism in the Indian Ocean island of Mauritius - one of the places she sometimes calls 'home'. Her research interests include issues of ethnicity and identity, cosmopolitanism, migration, 'home' and autoethnography. She is one of the co-editors of After Sprawl: Post-Suburban Sydney. E-Proceedings of the 2005 'Post-Suburban Sydney: The City in Transformation' Conference (2006).

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Callum Gilmour

Callum Gilmour is a research assistant working with Professor David Rowe on his ARC Discovery project, Handling the 'Battering Ram': Rupert Murdoch, News Corporation and the Global Contest for Dominance in Sports Television, which focuses on the increasingly dominant position of News Corporation within the global media sports cultural complex and the subsequent shift of televised sport content from free-to-air television to subscription-based platforms. Previously Callum was based at the Cultural Industries and Practices Research Centre (CIPS) at the University of Newcastle where he was on both, the teaching and research staff.

Callum is in the final stages of his doctoral thesis on the role of global media conglomorates in the international flow of television programming at the Creative Industries Research and Application Centre at the Queensland University of Technology. Callum's research interests revolve around geo-regional, geo-linguistic and geo-cultural television markets, global media corporations, media genres and global portability, and the media sports cultural complex. He is the co-author of the article 'The Future Role of Professional Sport and the Media in the Asia Pacific Societies' in the 2006 edition of Asia-Pacific Yearbook.

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Ingrid Matthews

Ingrid Matthews is a research assistant working with Professor Bob Hodge on the three-year ARC Discovery project, Putting Humanities to Work in a Chaotic World: Dynamic Interdisciplinarity and Community Engagement. Ingrid joined CCR in September 2007 after five years with the School of Environment and Agriculture at Hawkesbury campus, where she coordinated an Aboriginal student recruitment project called Caring for Country with UWS.  Ingrid and Chris Tobin, a Darug Aboriginal Educator, presented the project findings at the National Indigenous Education Conference (Newcastle, 2006) and at the Australian Institute of Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander Studies Conference (ANU, 2007). Ingrid holds a Bachelor of Economics (UNE, 1992) and is due to graduate in law later this year.  Ingrid was recently awarded the NSW Bar Association Human Rights Law Prize for 2007.

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Kieryn McKay

Kieryn McKay is a research assistant working with Professors Deborah Stevenson and David Rowe on the ARC Discovery Project, Culture Circuits: Exploring the International Networks and Institutions Shaping Contemporary Cultural Policy, and with Professor Kay Anderson on the UWS Urban Research Initiative-funded project, Law and the City: The Parramatta Justice Precinct as Civic Culture. She is also working with Associate Professor Hart Cohen on the ARC Linkage project, The Visual Mediation of a Complex Narrative: TGH Strehlow's 'Journey to Horseshoe Bend'.  Kieryn is a PhD candidate at the University of Sydney, where she is writing her (increasingly self-reflexive) doctoral thesis on cult literature and film, focusing on theories of contagion, obsession and insanity. Kieryn is a co-founder of Philament: A Postgraduate Journal of Culture and the Arts in 2003 and was its senior editor from 2003-2006.

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