Dr Mignon Shardlow
Senior Lecturer, Journalism
Phone: 9433 0295
Email: mignon.shardlow@nd.edu.au
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Biography
Dr Mignon Shardlow is a Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media. Dr Shardlow is a journalist turned academic with experience in newsrooms from the Republic of Palau in Micronesia to Kununurra in Western Australia, and a few points in between. She has written stories about everything from unexploded bombs to native title claims and knows what it is like to be a fresh journalist looking for work and an editor responsible for hiring journalists. Dr Shardlow was a journalism lecturer at Curtin University from 2003 to 2012 and began teaching at Notre Dame in Semester 2, 2012.
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Teaching areas
CO142 Introduction to Journalism
CO234 Journalism: Theory and Practice
CO360 Convergence Journalism
CO304 Feature Writing for Journalism
CO305 Media Ethics and Law -
Research expertise and supervision
Dr Shardlow’s research interests include: journalism education, work integrated learning, media ethics and freedom, new media, health communication, global media and development, journalism and activism and community journalism.
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Community engagement
Dr Shardlow is a committee member of Women in Media, a not-for-profit networking group for journalists in Western Australia. She has been a member of the Australian Journalism Association section of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance since 1996. She is also a member of the Journalism Education Association Australia and the Cross-institutional Collaborative Research Community.
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