[csaa-forum] Journalism and Media Research Centre April Seminars Reminder

[Kath Albury]

NEXT WEEK - JMRC Special Seminar

Leveson Inquiry: Murdoch: Investigative Journalism – Prash Naik

When:  Thursday 19 April
Time:    3.30-5.30 pm
Where:  Room 112, Morven Brown Building

The Leveson Inquiry is dominating the legal, journalistic and political landscape in the UK . But its impact on the future of journalism around the world will be profound. The Finkelstein Inquiry has already divided opinion over the thorny issue of balancing media accountability and press freedom but what lessons can be learnt from Leveson's examination of the culture, practices and ethics of the British press. Here's an opportunity for a unique insight into the inquiry, and its potential impact on the regulation of journalism both in the UK and Australia.

Prash Naik, Controller of Legal & Compliance for Channel 4 in the UK, is guest speaker at this special JMRC Seminar.

and

Men and Mining: an unsafe mix – Dean Laplonge

When:  Friday, 27 April
Time:   2.00-4.00 pm
Where:  Room 112, Morven Brown Building

The mining industry has a reputation for being tough. It’s an industry where any sign of weakness is openly critiqued. A mine site is no place for a “princess” or a “wuss”. Men working in mining often draw on the existence—perceived or real—of these feminised male types to maintain their identity as “real men”. And yet it’s real men who are getting injured and killed at work.

The mining industry has failed to address the impacts of gender on workplace cultures and safety. Its attitude to gender is to see it only as a problem for/of women. Investigations into the way gender affects men are non-existent, as if to suggest that the mining man’s gender is natural, unchangeable and without implications.

This seminar will discuss the research and work that has been done to date to encourage mining, and oil and gas, companies to take gender more seriously, particularly in regards to improving the safety of its men.

Dr. Dean Laplonge has a reputation in this industry for his provocative responses to gender issues—a reputation that has earned him the nickname of “the gender man in mining”. Other names he has been called while working on mine sites are left to your imagination! Dean is the Director of the cultural research consultancy Factive and an Adjunct Senior Lecturer in JRMC at UNSW.

All welcome.

For more information, contact Emily Booker, e.booker at unsw.edu.au



Dr Kath Albury
Academic Coordinator, Master of Journalism and Communication
Journalism and Media Research Centre
University of New South Wales
SYDNEY NSW 2052
Telephone: 61 2 9385 8533
Fax: 61 2 9385 8528.
http://www.kathalbury.com
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