Lecturer, and First-Year and Industry Placements Coordinator
| Contact Campus | Sandy Bay Campus |
| Building | Social Sciences Building |
| Room Reference | 501 |
| Telephone | +61 3 6226 7146 |
| Fax | +61 3 6226 2864 |
| Katrina.Clifford@utas.edu.au |
Katrina Clifford has over ten years experience as a journalist and magazine editor. As a freelance consultant and corporate writer, she has also provided strategic advice on communications and policy to non-government organisations, including 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) on the topic of September 11 and the politics of collective memory, representation and experience.
She completed her PhD thesis, The Thin Blue Line of Mental Health: Mediated Representations of Police Use of Force in Mental Health Crisis Interventions (University of Canberra), in 2012.
Katrina is a member of the Mindframe for Universities Advisory Group (Journalism Education) and a research associate with the Tasmanian Institute of Law Enforcement Studies (TILES).
Katrina has been involved in teaching and coordinating the following units:
Katrina’s current research examines the role of emotions in news media practice and criticism, and the relationship between mediated representations and lived experiences of trauma.
Her research examines these issues in the context of fatal police-involved shootings of mentally ill individuals in crisis and the ways in which these critical incidents are represented and interpreted by and between news media and the people involved in and traumatised by them.