Dr Mignon Shardlow

Senior Lecturer, Journalism

Phone: 9433 0295
Email: mignon.shardlow@nd.edu.au

  • 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.

  • 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.

  • 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.