Professor Trevor Barr BEd(LaT), MA(SIT) Professor Tel: 61 3 9214 8106 Office: AS413 Email: tbarr@swin.edu.au

Biography

Professor Barr's books, published by Oxford University Press, Penguin Books, Allen and Unwin and Rigby have been standard references in university media and telecommunications courses for many years and influential in policy formulation. His most recent work (with Alex Burns and Darren Sharp) Smart Internet 2010, for the Smart Internet Technology CRC, was launched by the Hon Helen Coonan, Minister Of Communications, Information Technology and the Arts at the ICT Outlook Conference in September, 2005, and presented to an OECD Forum in Paris in March 2006.



Trevor has been employed as a senior adviser or consultant by a number of government and industry bodies, including the Commission for the Future, Telstra, and Ericsson Australia. He was the inaugural Director of the Australian Electronics Development Centre, an initiative of the Commonwealth and Victorian governments to develop small and medium sized companies in information based industries. He has been a regular national media commentator for a long period, notably on ABC Radio, with AM and PM, Background Briefing, and regularly on Terry Lane, but also on Australia's leading news and current affairs television programs, including Four Corners, 7.30 Report, and This Week.



Trevor has spoken at international conferences in Tokyo, Bangkok, Glasgow, Paris, Seoul, Beijing, New York and London and he is a member of the Saxton Speakers Bureau, inc Harry M Miller's Speakers Bureau - in their Australia's top 100 speakers club. He is currently the Consumer Co-Chair of the Telstra Consumer Consultative Council (TCCC), an advisory body to Telstra.



The Sydney Morning Herald chose him as one of the 20 influential thinkers about major future issues facing Australia.

Teaching

Media and Communications

Publications Include

new media.com/ The changing face of Australia's media and telecommunications , published by Allen and Unwin (2000)