Ms Katrina Clifford
Lecturer
Contact Details
| Contact Campus |
Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building |
Humanities Building |
| Room Reference |
546 |
| Telephone |
+61 3 6226 7146 |
| Fax |
+61 3 6226 7631 |
| Email |
Katrina.Clifford@utas.edu.au |
Teaching Responsibilities
Katrina teaches into the following units:
Katrina is also the First-year Coordinator (Journalism, Media and Communications) Semester 2.
Publications
Book chapters
- Clifford, K. (2010) 'Mental Health Trauma Narratives and Misplaced Assumptions: Towards an Ethics of Self-Care Among (Humanities-Based) Trauma Researchers', in M. Broderick and A. Traverso (eds) Trauma, Media, Art: New Perspectives,Cambridge Scholars Publishing, Newcastle upon Tyne, pp. 175-192.
Journal articles
- Clifford, K. (2010) 'The Thin Blue Line of Mental Health in Australia', Police Practice and Research, 11(4), pp. 355-370.
- Clifford, K. & G. Mitchell (2009) ''The Killer Point': contemporary reconfigurations of The Gap as a crime scene', Law, Text, Culture, 13(1), pp. 80-107.
- Clifford, K. (2008) '(Dis)embodied sight: September 11 and the politics of collective memory, representation, and experience', Australian Journal of Communication, 35(1), pp. 69-88.
- Book reviews
- Clifford, K. (2010) 'The Shock of the News: Media Coverage and the Making of 9/11', Media International Australia, no. 137, pp. 171-172.
- Clifford, K. (2006) 'Global Public Management Revolution', Public Administration Today, no. 9, pp. 76-77.
Monographs and reports
- Herrington, V., Clifford, K., Lawrence, P. F., Ryle, S., & Pope, R. (2009) The NSW Police Force Mental Health Intervention Team: Final Evaluation Report. Charles Sturt University Centre for Inland Health and Australian Graduate School of Policing. Publicly available:
- http://www.police.nsw.gov.au/__data/assets/pdf_file/0006/174246/MHIT_Evaluation_Final_Report_241209.pdf
- Herrington, V., Clifford, K., Hatzopolous, P., Ryle, S., & Pope, R. (2009) The NSW Police Force Mental Health Intervention Team: Evaluation 18-Month Report. [Internal Project Document]. Charles Sturt University Centre for Inland Health and Australian Graduate School of Policing.
- Herrington, V., Bartkowiak-Theron, I., Clifford, K., Walkey, S., Pope, R., Crowther, A., & Woolston, R. (2009) The NSW Police Force Mental Health Intervention Team: Evaluation Annual Report. [Internal Project Document]. Charles Sturt University Centre for Inland Health and Australian Graduate School of Policing.
Conference proceedings and guest lectures
- 'The burdens of bearing witness: (mental health) trauma narratives and the imperative for an ethics of self-care among humanities-based trauma researchers', 'A Scholarly Affair' Cultural Studies Association of Australasia National Conference, Byron Bay, (7–9 December 2010).
- 'Limits of responsibility: Media ethics as a framework for sustainable risk communications of fatal mental health crisis interventions', Australian and New Zealand Communications Association (ANZCA) 'Media, Democracy and Change' Conference, Canberra, (7–9 July 2010).
- 'The Barriers to Truth in Media Reporting'. Guest lecture, Summer Session Intensive Course, 'Politics, the Community and the Common Good', University of Wollongong, (6 January 2010).
- 'Mental health trauma narratives and misplaced assumptions: Towards an ethics of self-care among humanities-based trauma researchers', 'Interrogating Trauma: Arts & Media Responses to Collective Suffering' International Conference, Perth, Western Australia, (2–4 December 2008).
- 'The Thin Blue Line of Mental Health', Guest lecture, Special Studies in Law Intensive Course, 'Mental Illness: Law and Policy', University of Wollongong, (20 September 2008 and 2 May 2009).
- 'Madness and [mis]representation: negotiating discursive representations of fatal mental health crisis interventions', Australian and New Zealand Society for the History of Medicine 10th Biennial Conference – 'Medicine in Context', Australian National University, Canberra, (3–6 July 2007).
- '[Dis]embodied sight: September 11 and the politics of collective memory, representation and experience', Australasian Society for Continental Philosophy 'Trauma, Historicity, Philosophy' conference, Deakin University, Geelong, (12–14 July 2006).
Katrina Clifford has worked for over a decade as a journalist and magazine editor. She was also a freelance communications consultant, providing strategic advice on policy and corporate communications to the Australian Institute of Company Directors and Suicide Prevention Australia.
Prior to joining UTAS, she was a casual tutor and guest lecturer at the University of Wollongong, and a research assistant on Charles Sturt University's independent evaluation of the NSW Police Force Mental Health Intervention Team. Katrina is a former Commonwealth Scholar and a graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she completed a Masters of Research (Media and Communications).
Research Interests
- Historical trauma and the shaping of collective (counter-)memory
- News media coverage of mental illness and police use of (deadly) force
- The tension between news values and media ethics
- The 'emotional labour' of media practices and criticism
- Visual images and the limits of representation of risk and crisis events
- Risk communications – theory and practice
Current Research Projects
Katrina is currently completing her doctoral research on the ways in which fatal police-involved shootings of mentally ill individuals in crisis are represented and interpreted by and between news media and people traumatised by these critical incidents.
