Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien

Associate Professor Geraldine Bloustien, former Deputy Director and Research Fellow of the Hawke Institute is a key reseacher in the Institute. She is located the School of Communication, International Studies and Langauges (CIL) and responsible, as Program Director, for two degrees: The Bachelor of Marketing and Communication (DBMN) and the Bachelor of Communication (Media and Culture: MBMC). She teaches and supervises Hons and PhDs 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.

Link to Geraldine Bloustien CV 2009

Hawke Research Institute

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

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

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 fo Sheffield, 1970.

• Cultural identities and representation;Popular music and youth cultures; Health literacy and complementary/ traditional health practices; Film & Media Studies
• CURRENT RESEARCH PROJECTS
• Australian Learning and Teaching and Research Council funded project (ALTC) Facilitating flexible, enquiry-based experiential learning through an accessible, three-dimensional virtual learning environment (3DVLE) ($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: investigating the role of singing in maintaining, re-creating and negotiating identity amongst recent migrants in their “new” 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
• 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)
• Harmonising Communities: a Cross-cultural study of music as a vehicle for affirming, constituting and negotating local identities in a globalised post-industrial world. 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.
• PAST RESEARCH PROJECTS
• 2006 ‘Researcher exchanges to strengthen shared and collaborative knowledge of integrated medical practice particularly focusing upon rural and women’s health issues in India and Australia.’ Australia-India Council (with Drs Deepa Rao and Susan Semple) $5000
• 2006 ‘Building a socially sustainable future for Indigenous youth living in Borroloola’ (with Alan Mayne, Project Leader and Bobby Bangergie). Telstra Foundation Grant, 2006, ($84,000).
• 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.
• Using Social Networking as strategy for social inclusion and entrepreneurship, in disadvantaged communities Investigators: A/Prof Geraldine Frances Bloustien, Prof Alan Mayne, Dr Denise Wood, Dr Elizabeth Hemphill, A/ Prof Tony Spawton.

See CV for updated lists of publications

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