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Biography
Katrina Clifford is a lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communications at the University of Tasmania. She has over ten years’ experience as a journalist and magazine editor. As a freelance consultant and corporate writer, she 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 the University of Tasmania, she was a casual tutor and guest lecturer in the School of History and Politics at the University of Wollongong. She was also a Research Assistant on Charles Sturt University’s evaluation of the NSW Police Force Mental Health Intervention Team (MHIT) pilot program.
Her research interests include news media representations of crime; risk communications; the visual framing of traumatic news events; journalism and emotions; and interactions between frontline police and mentally ill individuals in crisis, including mediated representations of police use of force.
In 2012, Katrina completed a PhD through the University of Canberra, examining the ways in which fatal police-involved shootings of mentally ill individuals in crisis are represented and interpreted by and between news media and key stakeholders, who are often traumatised by these critical incidents.
Katrina is a former recipient of a Commonwealth Scholarship, and a graduate of Goldsmiths College, University of London, where she completed a Masters of Research (Media and Communications).
She is a member of the national mental health initiative Mindframe for Universities Advisory Group (Journalism Education) as well as the Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology (ANZSOC), International Association for Mass Communication Research (IAMCR), Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) and the Journalism Education Association of Australia (JEAA).
Publications
A full Publications List is available on University of Tasmania - Web Access Research Portal (WARP)
(Research field - type in the surname of the academic)
Selected Conference Presentations
Mental Health Crisis Interventions and the Politics of Police Use of Deadly Force
The Australian and New Zealand Society of Criminology Conference, University of Auckland
27–29 November 2012
The Vulnerable Thin Blue Line: Representations of Police Use of Force in the Media
The Australian and New Zealand Critical Criminology Conference, University of Tasmania, Hobart
12–13 July 2012
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