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Dr Mia Lindgren

Senior Lecturer, Journalism

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Mia Lindgren is temporarily away from Monash University during first semester 2012. She is producing radio documentaries for ABC Radio National on secondment with their Social History and Features Unit in Melbourne. Mia will be back end of June 2012.

Recent Grants and Awards

2010 Chief Investigator on NHMRC project grant 634458 'Dust Related Health Issues in Western Australia', $729,500

2009 Highly Commended, WA Media Awards for Deadly Dust, 53-min radio documentary broadcast on Hindsight, ABC Radio National

2006 The Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence Awards for Team Teaching; with A/Professor Gail Phillips

Biography

Mia teaches broadcast journalism at undergraduate and postgraduate levels in the School of Journalism, Australian and Indigenous Studies at Caulfield campus. Mia is particularly interested in links between journalism practice and research and her 2011 PhD study Journalism as research - Developing radio documentary theory from practice (Murdoch University) examined how radio documentary theory and practice can fit into more traditional research frameworks. Her other research focus is asbestos. Mia is Chief Investigator on a NHMRC-funded inter-disciplinary research project into consequences of asbestos exposure. She is part of a team of journalists, historians and medical researchers behind the Australian Asbestos Network website collecting stories and raising awareness about the dangers of asbestos Mia was previously CI on an ARC Linkage grant involving another collaborative project about the history of Midland Railway Workshops in Perth.

Mia has taught broadcast journalism at Murdoch University in Perth, Western Australia, where she in 2006 won the Vice Chancellor's Teaching Excellence award for team teaching.  In 2004 and 2009 she was Visiting Fellow at Karlstad University in Sweden.

Industry

Mia Lindgren has worked in broadcast news, current affairs, live radio and documentary reporting with the Swedish Broadcasting Corporation. She has produced radio documentaries from Russia, Scandinavia, Israel and Australia. Since joining academe Mia has continued her involvement with the media industry through freelance productions for both Australian and Swedish radio. In 2006 Mia presented radio news in Sweden over the northern summer. In 2008 she organised a job swap with ABC Radio National in Perth to produce a series of radio documentaries.

Mia Lindgren is a member of the Advisory Group for the national mental health initiative Response Ability.

Mia is currently writing the third edition of the Australian Broadcast Journalism book for Oxford University Press.

Research Interests

Keywords

Journalism, journalist, radio documentaries and features, asbestos, trauma reporting, practice-related research, oral history, reflective practice

Areas of Supervision

Current PhD supervision

Representation and Empowerment through Television (co-supervision, Murdoch University)

Community Radio in Western Australia (co-supervision, Murdoch University)

Honours Supervision

Videojournalism in regional television news (2008)

The role of community television in Australia (2005)

L.B.W. Lives before wickets; when sports becomes politics (2004)

Interactive audio drama:  radio becomes new media (2002)

The Chinese in Western Australia - a series of oral histories for radio (2002)

Cat Laws - conservation or discrimination?   A radio documentary (2000)

Teaching

Research Projects and Grants

2010-2012 Chief Investigator on NHMRC project grant 634458 'Dust Related Health Issues in Western Australia', $729,500; University of WA and Murdoch University
2007-2009 Chief Investigator on NHMRC special asbestos grant 458519 'Community consequences of asbestos exposure', $846,385; University of WA, Curtin and Murdoch Universities
2006 Research Excellence Grant Scheme Murdoch University $14,877 for ‘Living with Asbestos' project
2002-2004 Chief Investigator on ARC Linkage grant ‘Midland Workshops History Project', $208,760; Curtin and Murdoch Universities and 10 industry partners

Publications

Books

Phillips, G. & Lindgren, M., 2006, Australian Broadcast Journalism, 2nd edn, Oxford University Press, Melbourne

Lindgren, M. & Ohlsson, M., 2005, Den Sjalvkorda Radioboken, Liber, Stockholm

Phillips, G. & Lindgren, M., 2002, Australian Broadcast Journalism Manual, Oxford University Press, Melbourne

Journal Articles

Lindgren, M., & Phillips, G., 2011 Conceptualising journalism as research: two paradigms, Australian Journalism Review, 33(2)

Phillips, G. & Lindgren, M., 2010, The Australian Asbestos Network - how journalism can address a public health disaster, Observatorio (OBS*), Vol 4, No 4 (2010)

Lindgren, M. & Phillips, G., 2008, Asbestos Stories Project, in Lenore Layman (ed.) Asbestos:  Danger, Disease & Struggle.  Papers in Labour History, Number 27, June

Phillips, G. & Lindgren, M., 2005, ‘Teaching in the invisible medium', in Radio in the World: Radio Conference 2005, pages: 493-504. Eds. Healy, S., Berryman, B. & Goodman, D., Melbourne: RMIT Publishing 2005. http://search.informit.com.au/documentSummary;dn=039724901935648;res=E-LIBRARY

Radio and Video Documentaries (a selection)

Deadly Dust, 23 Nov 2008, Hindsight, ABC Radio National, 54-minute radio documentary

Abrolhos Island Life, 8 June 2008, Street Stories, ABC Radio National, 28-minute radio documentary

Going it Alone, 30 March 2008 (repeat 18 Jan 2009), Street Stories, ABC Radio National, 28-minute radio documentary

Living with Asbestos:  The Third Wave, 21 Oct 2007, Street Stories, ABC Radio National, 28-minute radio documentary

The Midland Railway Workshops - A Family Affair, 30 April 2006 (repeat 7 Jan 2007), Hindsight, ABC Radio National, 54-minute radio documentary, co-producer with Bill Bunbury

Midland Workshops Life, 2004, Director and Executive Producer for 40-minute video documentary produced for and exhibited at the Midland Workshops Interpretation Centre (also on sale on DVD)

Conferences (most recent)

2011, Telling the tough stories - narratives of ill-health, JEA national conference, 28-30 Nov, Adelaide, co-author Gail Phillips

2011, Conceptualising Journalism as Research, IAMCR, July, Istanbul, Turkey, co-author Gail Phillips

2011, Radio Documentary Practice, R@dio Congresso, March, Lisbon, Portugal

2011, Radio Documentary as Research, The Radio Conference, January, Auckland, New Zealand

2010, The Australian Asbestos Network - capturing audio narratives to tell the story of asbestos, ECREA, October, Hamburg, Germany, co-author Gail Phillips

2010, The Australian Asbestos Network - how journalism can address a public health disaster, IAMCR, July, Braga, Portugal, co-author Gail Phillips

2009, Listening to trauma - challenges of interviewing asbestos victims, JEA national conference, 30 Nov – 2 Dec, Perth

2009, The Asbestos Disaster, JEA national conference, 30 Nov – 2 Dec, Perth, co-author Gail Phillips

2009, Asbestos Stories, Digital Memories (international conference), 17 - 19 March, Salzburg, Austria