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Biography
Julian Thomas is Director of the Swinburne Institute for Social Research, and Professor of Media and Communications at Swinburne University of Technology.
Among other roles, Julian chairs the management committee of the website Australian Policy Online, and is a board member and Treasurer of the Public Interest Journalism Foundation, a member of the Consumer Consultative Forum of the Australian Media and Communications Authority, and Convenor of the Swinburne University node of the Australian Research Council Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI).
Research Interests
Media and communications policy Histories of new communications technologies Intellectual property and information policy
Publications Include
New Book: Fashioning Intellectual Property: Exhibition, Advertising and the Press 1789-1918, co-authored with Megan Richardson, Cambridge University Press, 2012 More publications on the Swinburne Research Bank
Awards and Grants
Chief Investigator and Swinburne node convenor, ARC Centre of Excellence in Creative Industries and Innovation ARC Discovery (DP110101455) Informal Media Economies and Audiovisual Industries ARC Linkage (LP110200440) Home Internet for Remote Communities ARC Linkage (LP120100309) Shades of grey: realising the value of informal publishing
Postgraduate Supervision
Bill Birnbauer (The future of investigative reporting in Australia) Scott Ewing (The evolving relationship between the internet and television) Jennifer Newton-Farrelly (Fairness and Equity in Electoral Redistributions in Australia) Josefine Raasch (Concepts of (historical) justice among teenagers.) Gregory Wee (Film funding in Malaysia in the context of National Cinema) Chris Wilson (Frequently Modulating: Australian Radio's Relationship With Youth) Katherine Wilson (The New Luddities) Lawson Fletcher (The Life Cycles of Media Technologies and Collections in the Home)
Other Projects
The World Internet Project - Australian component Youthworx: Youth Media and Social Enterprise