Catharine Lumby | |
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 Lumby in 2013 | |
| Occupation(s) | Media studies academic, journalist |
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| Alma mater | Macquarie University |
| Thesis | Life in a Tabloid World : an analysis of key shifts in Australian and US print and television media (1999) |
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| Institutions | University of New South Wales Macquarie University University of Sydney |
Catharine Lumby is an Australian academic,author and journalist,currently Chair of the Department of Media and Communication at University of Sydney.
Prior to her move to academia,Lumby was a feature writer and columnist for The Sydney Morning Herald ,a news writer for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation and a columnist and senior writer at The Bulletin . [1] She holds a BA LLB from the University of Sydney [2] and was awarded a PhD by Macquarie University for her thesis "Life in a tabloid world:an analysis of key shifts in Australian and US print and television media". [3]
Lumby was the foundation Chair of the Media and Communications Department at the University of Sydney (1999–2007) and the foundation Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of New South Wales (2008–2013). She was Professor of Media at Macquarie University (2013–2021), [1] returning to the University of Sydney as Professor of Media Studies in 2021.
Since 2004 she has been a pro bono gender adviser to the National Rugby League (NRL). In 2017 she almost resigned from the role,stating that she was disappointed by the lack of off-field behaviour change of NRL players towards women and that it highlighted continued disrespect. [4]
In 2013 Lumby was appointed by Tony Burke,Minister for the Arts,to the Council of the National Museum of Australia. She was re-appointed for a further three-year term in May 2016. [5]
Lumby wrote the foreword to End Rape on Campus Australia's report,Connecting the dots:Understanding sexual assault in university communities,submitted to the Australian Human Rights Commission in January 2017. [6]
Lumby is a contributor to The Guardian on gender issues. [7] She is a Member of the Editorial Boards of the International Journal of Cultural Studies [8] and the Feminist Media Studies journal. [9]
Lumby has contributed chapters to a number of books, including:
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