Gabi is a Lecturer in Journalism, Media and Communications, currently teaching postgraduate courses in the Media School. Her research interests are particularly concerned with communicating the environment. Her doctoral research examined environmental communication and protest in Latin America. Gabi is especially interested in the relationship between environmental harms and social inequality, and ways in which this plays out in the media. She also works on media discourse around energy transitions, climate change and water justice in different national contexts.

Biography

Prior to joining UTAS, Gabi was a newspaper and magazine features writer, contributing to publications including The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Moscow Times, The Russia Journal, The Johannesburg Sunday Times, The Mercury, Australian Geographic, Vacations & Travel, Australian Gourmet Traveller, NZ Adventure Magazine and Outback Magazine. Gabi has also been an author for Lonely Planet guides, Insight Guides and the SBS World Guide. She has co-authored or contributed to 16 books, including large format coffee-table books for Lonely Planet. She has also been a contributor to BBC Travel online. See Gabi's website.

Career summary

Qualifications

• PhD, University of Tasmania, Awarded 2019. Thesis title: Becoming Emblematic: Lessons from mediatized megaproject conflict in Chile
• MA Political Science, University of Melbourne, Awarded 2003, Thesis title: Media and democracy in post-perestroika Russia
• BA (Hons) Modern European Languages (first class – Distinction in Spoken Russian and German), University of Durham, Awarded 1999.

Teaching

Teaching expertise

• HEJ248 Social Media
• HEJ107 Communication and Professional Writing
• HEJ205 Public Relations
• HEJ260/360 Media Projects
• HEJ140 Making Media
• HEJ342 Media and Crime
• HEJ418 Theory to Practice in Journalism, Media and Communications 
• HEJ504 Media Writing
• XBR208 Natural Hazards and Disasters
• KAA106 Introduction to Sustainability Literacy
• HEJ415 Communication for Change

Teaching responsibility

In Semester 2 2019:

HEJ507 Media Relations

In Spring School 2019:

HEJ415 Communication for Change

Gabi is also a course author for the Open School of Journalism (Based in Berlin and New York). Her course here is, JD040: Environmental Journalism.