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Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien
Position: Adjunct Associate Professor Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien
Division/Portfolio: Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences
School/Unit: Division Office Research EAS
Group: Hawke Research Institute
Campus: Underdale Campus
Office: X2-15
Telephone: +61 8 830 21252
Fax:
Email: Gerry_dot_Bloustien_at_unisa_dot_edu_dot_au
URL for Business Card: http://people.unisa.edu.au/Gerry.Bloustien

Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien has changed her status at the University to be an Adjunct Associate Professor at the Hawke Research Institute from January 1st 2010 in order to focus on her research, publications and her doctoral students. Former Deputy Director and Research Fellow of the Hawke Institute, she is a key reseacher in the Institute. She teaches and supervises Hons and PhD students across cross-disciplinary boundaries of media theory and practice.

Her research areas include youth studies, video production, theories and practices in documentary film, television and film theories, ethnographic methodologies, gender & representation and popular music and culture to contemporary theories and practices of healing. Her work more recently particularly focusses on how new technologies and new forms of media affect invdividuals and communities as learners and acquirers of knowledge. In what ways do they influence the power structures that underpin what is deemed appropriate cultural knowledge?

She is a founding member of the Australian Research Council's National Cultural Research Network.

Hawke Research Institute

Teaching interests

  • Cultural criticism
  • flexible delivery of subjects
  • Ethnographic texts
  • Popular music
  • Gender and representation
  • media production
  • film and television theory

I teach the following courses

COMM 1018Screen Matters: Film, Television and New Media
COMM 2005Television and Society
COMM 2015Global Cinemas, Local Identities
COMM 2033Music, Communities and Fan Cultures
HUMS 2025Multi-Mediations: Social and Cultural Uses of the New Media
HUMS 3037Representing Reality: Photography, Video And Image
HUMS 2025Multi-Mediations: Social and Cultural Uses of the New Media
COMM 1017Australian Television and Cinema Industries
COMM 3019Screen Culture
COMM 2043From Mickey to Manga: Understanding the Animated Image

Professional associations

Health Alliance of South Australia

Australian Cultural Studies Association

The Australian Anthropological Association

IASPM: The International Association for the Study of Popular Music

Media Resource Centre

Australian Teachers of Media

Australian Film Institute

Australian Association for Research in Education

Qualifications

PhD Anthropology, University of Adelaide, 1999.

Graduate Diploma in Media, Film and Teleivsion School, North Ryde, Sydney, 1991.

Grdauate Certificate in Education, London Institute of Education, 1971.

BA English Honours, University of Sheffield, 1970.

Research interests

  • Cultural identities and representation;Popular music and youth cultures; Health literacy and complementary/ traditional health practices; Film & Media Studies
  • 2005 ATN network challenge (with partners in all 5 Australian University of Technology Networks). Community networks communication as a source of sustainability in global Australia. $50,000
  • 2004 ARC The Cultural Research Network, RN0459928, $500,000
  • 2003-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant DP0345917, Playing for Life: the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as strategic pathways to agency, employment and socio-economic inclusion. $370,000,
  • 2004-2005 Australian Research Council Discovery Grant, International Linkage Fellowship, LX0560412 Fellowship for on-site German-Australian collaboration to research the everyday music practices of marginalised youth as pathways to socio-economic inclusion. $81,000
  • UNDER DEVELOPMENT
  • Unsettling Histories: using affective strategies to reconcile contested representations of collective memory in public spaces. Investigators: A/Prof Andrea Witcomb, A/Prof Geraldine Frances Bloustien, Prof Davinder Pal Ahluwalia, Prof Hartmut Haeussermann A study of the impact of new technologies and immersive and affective techniques in the ways museum document and represent contested histories.

Research publications

See my CV for updated lists of publications

Expertise for Media Contact

I am able to provide media comment in the following areas of expertise:

Discipline: Communication; Popular Culture; Screen Literacy; New Media

  • Popular Culture
  • Youth issues
  • Crime and the Media

Community Service

Organisation Name:   Channel 31, Community Television,
Section:   Board
Type of Organisation:   Community organisation
Organisation URL:   http://www.c31.com.au/
Level of involvement:   Board member [from 2005 to 2008 inc.]
Year from:   2005
Year to:   2008

Organisation Name:   Intersections: Wakefield Press/ Hawke Research Institute
Section:   Publishing
Organisation URL:   http://www.wakefieldpress.com.au/
Level of involvement:   Editorial Board

Organisation Name:   Cultural Studies Association of Australasia (CSAA).
Section:   Executive Committee
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Organisation URL:   http://www.csaa.asn.au/
Level of involvement:   Public Officer and SA representative

Organisation Name:   Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
Section:   Academic Publishing
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Organisation URL:   http://www.csaa.asn.au/publications/journal.php
Level of involvement:   editorial board member

Organisation Name:   Refractory girl : a women's studies journal
Section:   Publishing
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Organisation URL:   http://catalogue.nla.gov.au/Record/1307623
Level of involvement:   editorial board member

Organisation Name:   Slayage:The online Interational Journal of Buffy Studies
Section:   Publishing
Type of Organisation:   Professional organisation
Organisation URL:   http://slayageonline.com/
Level of involvement:   editorial board member

Research Degree Supervisor

My past and current students have worked on areas of visual methodologies, new media technologies, identity politics, representations through screen and cinema, dislocated and diasporic identities, popular music.


Current Projects:

 Facilitating flexible, enquiry-based experiential learning through accessible 3DVEs
 Australian Learning and Teaching and Research Council funded project (ALTC)($224,731). This is a collaborative proposal by the University of South Australia (UniSA), Flinders University, University of Sydney, Edith Cowan University, RMIT, Monash University, and University of Sheffield (UK), in consultation with accessibility specialists, legal advisors and human rights representatives
Migrating Songs and Song’s Role in Migration
 Migrating Songs and Song’s Role in Migration: investigating the role of singing in maintaining communities.
Funded: UWA research collaboration awards 2009:
With Dr Robert Faulkner, Professor J.W. Davidson (University of West Australia); Professor Patricia Sheehan Campbell (University of Washington, Seattle); Professor Jonathan Stock (University of Sheffield



Uses of music in diasporic and displaced communities
 Harmonising Communities: a Cross-cultural study of music as a vehicle for affirming, constituting and maintaining identity.
Investigators: Gerry Bloustien (UniSA, Jane Davidson (UWA), Anna Hickey Moody (University of Sydney) Derek Scott (Leeds University), John Hutnyk, Julian Henriques, (Goldsmiths, London University);Keith Kahn Harris (Birkbeck College, London)

A trans-national study of the intergenerational transmission of cultural knowledge through song, dance and religious rituals in urban and regional ethnic communities.


Using appropriate technologies to explore teenage engagement with popular song
 Using appropriate technologies to explore teenage engagement with popular song to investigate self, identity and social group experience.

Funded: UWA research collaboration awards 2009:


CIS: With Prof Jane Davidson; Dr Robert Faulkner (UWA); Professor Gary E.McPherson (University of Illinois, Urbana Champaign); Professor Patricia Sheehan Campbell, (University of Washington, Seattle)



Using Social Networking as strategy for social inclusion and entrepreneurship
 Using Social Networking as strategy for social inclusion and entrepreneurship, in disadvantaged commmunities
Investigators: A/Prof Geraldine Frances Bloustien, Prof Alan Mayne, Dr Denise Wood, Dr Elizabeth Hemphill, A/ Prof Tony Spawton.



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