Research Associate
PhD (UTAS)
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Social Sciences Building |
| Room Reference | 539 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 2903 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2864 |
| Lyn.Mcgaurr@utas.edu.au |
Lyn McGaurr completed a PhD in Journalism, Media and Communications at UTAS in 2013. She originally became interested in media and the environment during Tasmania’s Franklin dam protests, when she was employed as a researcher and trainee reporter in the Hobart office of the ABC. In later years she worked as an editor for book publishers Lonely Planet and Penguin. She has also been a magazine journalist, guidebook writer, corporate communicator, media relations manager and academic researcher. In 1997 her interest in media and the environmental was reignited by events surrounding negotiations over the Kyoto Protocol, and in 2006 she enrolled part time in the inaugural Journalism, Media and Communications Honours program at UTAS.
Her Honours thesis surveyed coverage of climate change and nuclear energy in the Australian newspaper before, during and after the release of the 2007 IPCC report. Recognising that UTAS was building a strong international reputation in environmental journalism studies, Lyn then chose to pursue postgraduate research in Tasmania. Her PhD thesis, entitled ‘Travel Journalism, Cosmopolitan Concern and the Place-Branded Environment’, considers the extent to which international travel journalism is a contested site, how it affects global representations and flows of cosmopolitan concern, and how it impacts on the brands of tourism destinations experiencing environmental conflict.
Lyn's reserch publications can be accessed here via WARP