Interviews, Roles & Achievements

• Awarded Fellowship in Higher Education Academy (FHEA) in 2021.
• Interviewed by Channel 7 News regarding social media ethics – January 10, 2020.

• Chair and organiser of the FPRC Fame and Fandom: Functioning on and offline conference in December 2019.

• Interviewed for The Telegraph “Justin Bieber and how Instagram became the millennial confession booth” (September 3, 2019)  – https://www.telegraph.co.uk/music/news/justin-bieber-instagram-became-millennial-confession-booth/
• Invited by Western Australia Museum to speak at the Kylie on Stage Exhibition in Fremantle – March 2019.

• Nominated for teaching excellence 2018/2019 at The University of Western Australia.
• Committee Member of Bridging Gaps: Re-Fashioning Stories for Celebrity Counterpublics – in New York, September 2019.
• Committee Member of CMCS conference – Bridging Gaps: Where is Ethical Glamour in Celebrity Culture? – in Lisbon in 2018.
• Nominated for teaching excellence 2017/2018 at The University of Western Australia.
• Fame and Persona Research Consortium (FPRC) Advisory Board Member – Regional Chair (Australia and the Pacific region)

• Review Committee Member for EuroMedia2017 – The European Conference on Media, Communication and Film in 2017 –  IAFOR.
• Chair and organiser of the CMCS conference – Bridging Gaps: National Identity in Persona, Branding and Activism, December 2017.
• Persona Studies Journal Reviewer 2017.
• Interviewed for Swiss Women’s Weekly, Femina – http://www.femina.ch/people/news-people/bashing-pourquoi-flingue-autant-people-kardashian-aniston-swiftt-reseaux-sociaux  
• Committee Member of CMCS conference – Bridging Gaps: Where is the film scholar in Hollywood filmmaking? – in Los Angeles in 2017.
• WaterHill publishing editorial board member – http://www.waterhillpublishing.com/contacts.html 
• Interviewed for Fucsia article – http://www.fucsia.co/personajes/articulo/selena-gomez-chica-popular/72636 
• 2016 Young Achiever Awards Semi-Finalist.
• Chair and oragniser of the CMCS Conference – “Bridging Gaps: What are the media, publicists, and celebrities selling?” – July 3-5, 2016 in Barcelona.
• Creator and Producer of Celebrity Chat – https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCFndZ1r546PNJPMahIJB5uw/feed
• Chair and organiser of the CMCS Conference – “Bridging Gaps: Where is the Persona in Celebrity and Journalism?” – September 2-3, 2015 in New York.
• Quoted in article – Protein: Overnight Celebrity https://www.prote.in/en/briefings/overnight-celebrity 
• Centre for Media and Celebrity Studies (CMCS) Advisory Board Member – http://cmc-centre.com/board/ 
• Member of the international conference organisation Inter-Diciplinary.Net Steering Group 2014-2017 – http://www.inter-disciplinary.net/critical-issues/ethos/celebrity-exploring-critical-issues/steering-group/
• Listed as a CMCS Media Expert – http://cmc-centre.com/experts/
• Editor of the volume titled “Credibility and the Incredible: Disassembling the Celebrity Figure” 2015.
• Senior Reviewer of EuroMedia2015 – The European Conference on Media, Communication and Film in 2015 –  IAFOR.
• Interviewed by the Western Independent as a professional on celebrity culture and social media in 2013.
• Chaired a panel at the Life Without Media – IV International Conference on Communication and Reality (LWM) in Barcelona, Spain from June 30 to July 1, 2011.
• Chaired a panel at the Curtin Humanities Conference in Perth, Western Australia from October 20 to 21, 2011.

Please contact me for a full CV.

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