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Co-investigator, Dynamics of World Cinema
Stuart Cunningham is Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology, and Director of the Australian Research Council (ARC) Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation. He is President of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS).
He is well known for his contributions to media, communications and cultural studies and to their relevance to industry practice and government policy. A key figure in cultural policy studies and creative industries, he wrote Featuring Australia (1991), a study of the career of pioneering Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, and Framing Culture (1992), an influential critique of the limits of cultural studies as applied to cultural policy. With Toby Miller, he wrote Contemporary Australian Television (1993). He co-wrote or co-edited a number of studies of the global dimensions of audiovisual culture with John Sinclair and Elizabeth Jacka: New Patterns in Global Television (1996), Australian Television and International Mediascapes (1996), and Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas (2001). He co-edited two textbooks with Graeme Turner, The Australian TV Book (2001) and The Media and Communications in Australia (2006); the second has gone into four editions and is the standard text in the field in Australia.
His most recent work is an essay in the Platform Paper series, titled What Price a Creative Economy? (July 2006).
He is an appointed member of the Australian Research Council's College of Experts 2005-7, Adjunct Professor of the Australian National University 2006-8 and Node Convenor, Cultural Technologies, for the ARC Cultural Research Network (CRN).
He has co-authored several major reports for bodies such as UNCTAD, the federal departments of education and communications, the Australian Broadcasting Authority, Queensland state government and Brisbane City Council. He was a board member of the Australian Film Commission 1992-98, and was recently concluded a period as foundation chair of QPIX, Queensland's Screen Development Centre for eight years, 1997-2005. He was Treasurer and Council and Executive member of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2003-6, having been elected to that Academy as one its inaugural fellows in cultural and communication studies in 1997. He was an elected board member of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS) in 2005-6.
Current and Recent Positions Held
President, Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), 2006-
Member, Cultural Studies, Australian Research Council College of Experts, 2005-
Board member, Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), 2005-6
Adjunct Professor of the Australian National University 2006-8
Director, Creative Industries Research and Applications Centre (CIRAC), Queensland University of Technology, 2001-5
Acting Executive Dean, Creative Industries Faculty, Queensland University of Technology, 2005
Professor and Head, School of Media and Journalism, Faculty of Arts, Queensland University of Technology, 1996-2001
Fellow, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 1997-
Treasurer and member of Council, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2002-6
Chair, Cultural and Communication Studies section, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2001-2
Commissioner, Australian Film Commission 1992-8
Deputy Director, Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy 1995-2001
Chair, QPIX (Queensland's screen development centre) 1997-2005
Member of Council, Queensland Academy of Arts and Sciences, 2002-4 |
