Associate Professor Bridget Griffen-Foley, ARC Queen Elizabeth II Fellow
BA, PhD (Macquarie University)
| Office: | W6A 415 |
| Phone: | +61 2 9850 8828 |
| Fax: | +61 2 9850 6594 |
| Email: | bgfoley@hmn.mq.edu.au |
Since completing my PhD thesis at Macquarie University in 1996, I have been specialising in the history of the Australian media. After holding postdoctoral fellowships at the University of Sydney, I returned to Macquarie University in 2003 to begin work on the first full-scale history of commercial radio in Australia. I am the Director of the Centre for Media History, established at Macquarie University in 2007, and am the convenor of the ARC Cultural Research Network’s Media Histories node and the Australian Media History database and listserv. I also write a regular media column for Australian Book Review, and serve on the Library Council of NSW, the editorial board of Media International Australia, and the NSW Working Party of the Australian Dictionary of Biography.
Research interests and areas of supervision
I specialise in media history and twentieth-century Australian history and biography, and am able to supervise in these areas.
Current Research Projects
I am currently working on a history of commercial radio in Australia from its origins in the 1920s to the present day. Changing Stations: The Story of Australian Commercial Radio is to be published by UNSW Press.
Research funding and fellowships
ARC Discovery Grant/Queen Elizabeth II Fellowship for a history of commercial radio in Australia ($556 565), 2003-2008.
New Staff Support Grant, Macquarie University, for a short history of the Federation of Australian Radio Broadcasters, 2004.
Research Development Grant, Macquarie University, for Towards a Companion to the Australian Media, 2006.
Research Infrastructure Block Grant, Macquarie University, for A Database of Public Opinion, Social Movements and the Media: A New Research Tool for the Humanities and Social Sciences, Macquarie University (with Professor Murray Goot and Dr Sean Scalmer), 2006.
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Edited
- From the Frontier: Essays in Honour of Duncan Waterson , special joint issue of Journal of Australian Studies , no. 69 and Australian Cultural History , no. 20, 2001.
- Australian Media History, special issue of Media International Australia , no. 99, May 2001.
Journal articles
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‘Radio ministries: Religion on Australian commercial radio from the 1920s to the 1960s’, Journal of Religious History (forthcoming, March 2008).
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‘Talkback radio and Australian politics since the summer of ’67’, Media International Australia, no. 122, February 2007, pp. 96-107.
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‘From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma Lena: Foreign-language broadcasting on Australian commercial radio, Part 2’, Journal of Australian Studies, no. 90, 2007 (forthcoming).
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‘From the Murrumbidgee to Mamma Lena: Foreign-language broadcasting on Australian commercial radio, Part 1’, Journal of Australian Studies, no. 88, 2006, pp. 51-60, 168-70.
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‘Sporting chances: Sport on Australian commercial radio from the 1920s to the 1950s’, Sporting Traditions, vol. 23, no. 1, 2006, pp. 37-62.
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‘Australian press, radio and television historiography: An update’, Media International Australia, no. 119, May 2006, pp. 21-37 (bibliographical essay).
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‘The birth of a hybrid: The shaping of the Australian radio industry’, The Radio Journal (UK), vol. 2, no. 3, 2004, pp. 153-69.
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‘“The Kangaroo is coming into its own”: R. G. Casey, Earl Newsom and public relations in the 1940s’, Australasian Journal of American Studies, vol. 23, no. 2, December 2004 pp. 1-20.
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‘Midnight to dawn programs on Australian commercial radio’, Journal of Radio Studies (USA), vol. 11, no. 2, Winter 2004, pp. 239-53.
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‘From Tit-Bits to Big Brother: A century of audience participation in the media’, Media, Culture & Society (UK), vol. 26, no. 4, July 2004, pp. 533-48.
Republished in The Tabloid Culture Reader, eds Anita Biressi and Heather Nunn, McGraw Hill/Open University, 2007 (forthcoming). -
‘“A civilised amateur”: Edgar Holt and his life in letters and politics’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 49, no. 1, March 2003, pp. 31-47.
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‘Political opinion polling and the professionalisation of public relations: Keith Murdoch, Robert Menzies and the Liberal Party of Australia’, Australian Journalism Review, vol. 24, no. 1, July 2002, pp. 41-59.
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‘The Fairfax, Murdoch and Packer dynasties in twentieth-century Australia’, Media History (UK), vol. 8, no. 1, 2002, pp. 89-102.
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‘“The crumbs are better than a feast elsewhere”: Australian journalists on Fleet Street’, Journalism History (USA), vol. 28, no. 1, Spring 2002, pp. 26-37.
Republished in Australians in Britain, eds Carl Bridge and David Dunstan, Monash University ePress, 2008 (forthcoming). -
‘The battle of Melbourne: The rise and fall of the Star’, special joint issue of Journal of Australian Studies, no. 69 and Australian Cultural History, no. 20, 2001, pp. 89-102, 195-7.
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‘Sir Frank Packer and the leadership of the Liberal Party, 1967-71’, Australian Journal of Political Science, vol. 36, no. 3, November 2001, pp. 499-513.
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‘The press proprietor and the politician: Sir Frank Packer and Sir Robert Menzies’, Media International Australia, no. 99, May 2001, pp. 23-34.
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‘Revisiting The “Mystery of a Novel Contest”: The Daily Telegraph and Come in Spinner’, Australian Literary Studies, vol. 19, no. 4, October 2000, pp. 413-24.
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‘Playing with princes and presidents: Sir Frank Packer and the 1962 challenge for the America’s Cup’, Australian Journal of Politics and History, vol. 46, no. 1, March 2000, pp. 51-66.
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‘Audience complicity and community in the Sydney press, 1933 to 1953’, Publishing Studies, no. 6, Autumn 1998, pp. 38-42.
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‘The Young Master and his old man: Frank and R. C. Packer’, Media International Australia, no. 77, August 1995, pp. 35-45.
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‘“Four more points than Moses”: Dr H. V. Evatt, the press and the 1944 referendum’, Labour History, no. 68, May 1995, pp. 63-79.
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‘“This thing of darkness”: Public representations of Dr H. V. Evatt’, Public History Review, no. 3, 1994, pp. 64-78.
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‘A biographical profile of George Warnecke’, Australian Studies in Journalism, no. 3, 1994, pp. 67-108.
Chapters in books
- 'Radio', in The Media and Communications in Australia , 2 nd edition, eds Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, Allen & Unwin, Sydney , 2006, pp. 133-53.
- 'The Steven Seagal factor: The corporate histories', in The Fuss That Never Ended: The Life and Work of Geoffrey Blainey , eds Deborah Gare, Geoffrey Bolton, Stuart Macintyre and Tom Stannage, Melbourne University Press, Melbourne, 2003, pp. 79-89, 182-4.
- 'The Evatts, liberalism and modernism', in Studies in Twentieth Century Australian History , ed. D. B. Waterson, Australian History Museum, Macquarie University, Sydney, 2001, pp. 58-71.
- R. C. Packer: Founder of a dynasty', Australian Communication Lives 1999 , eds Graeme Osborne and Deborah Jenkin, University of Canberra , Canberra , 2000, pp. 40-6.
- 'Operating on "an intelligent level": Cadet training at Consolidated Press in the 1940s', in Journalism: Print, Politics and Popular Culture , eds Ann Curthoys and Julianne Schultz, University of Queensland Press, Brisbane, 1999, pp. 142-54, 328-9.
Convenor of MHPG915 Bulletin to Big Brother : The Media in Australia since 1880.
Director, Centre for Media History, Division of Humanities
Media Histories node convenor, ARC Cultural Research Network
Library Council of New South Wales (statutory appointment)
Committee
Research committee, Department of Modern History
Conference
Co-convenor of Australian Media Traditions: Historical Perspectives Conference, State Library of New South Wales, 1999.
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