Dr Brett Hutchins
- BA MA (UC), PhD (UQ)
- 2nd/3rd Year Unit Coordinator
- School Postgraduate coordinator
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Background
Brett Hutchins graduated from the sociology program at the University of Queensland in 2001, receiving the Dean’s Commendation for Outstanding Research Higher Degree Thesis (Ph.D.). His thesis was published as Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth by Cambridge University Press in 2002, receiving significant media and critical attention and appearing in paperback in 2005. He joined the Communications and Media Studies program in 2005 after lecturing at the University of Tasmania. He has published widely over the past decade on sports media, sport in Australian culture and history, and news media in national and international journals and edited collections. In addition to writing features for newspapers, he is a regular commentator on media culture and sport in print, electronic and digital news media.
Research Interests
Brett Hutchins’ research interests are in sports media and culture, online and digital media, environmental media, and news media. He is interested in supervising Honours, Masters and PhD students in these and related areas.
He is presently completing two major Australian Research Council (ARC) funded projects. These are:
‘Struggling for Possession: The Control and Use of Online Media Sport’ (2008-2010). This Project analyses current practices and emerging issues affecting sport and media culture arising from the rapid growth in online sport content.
‘Changing Landscapes: Online Media and Politics in an Age of Environmental Conflict’ (2010-2012). This project investigates environmental conflict, news media and politics in a time of socio-cultural and technological change.
Selected Publications
Don Bradman: Challenging the Myth (2002 Hardback, 2005 paperback) is “a valuable book, a genuinely different addition to a mountain of writing on Bradman” (Times Higher Education Supplement) and is “authored and expertly crafted by the talented Australian sociologist, Brett Hutchins” (Professor John Bale in International Review for the Sociology of Sport).
Sociology: Themes and Perspectives 3e (2006) is the market-leading introductory sociology textbook in Australia, selling over 40,000 copies since the release of the first edition in 1996. Brett Hutchins is the author of the materials presented on media and communications in the latest edition. A fourth edition is presently being planned.