Mrs Sharon Mascall-Dare 

Sharon Mascall is an award winning journalist, writer and broadcaster. An Oxford University graduate, she began her career as a producer and presenter of BBC radio and television programmes before moving to Australia in 1999. Today, she continues to produce and present documentaries for the BBC and writes regularly for national Australian newspapers. She is also a PhD candidate at UniSA researching 'An Australian Story: Media and Memory in the Making of Anzac Day'. Career highlights: presenter and producer of radio and television programmes for the BBC for over sixteen years; three years as a freelance presenter and producer of radio programmes for the ABC including Radio National's Asia Pacific; seven years as a columnist and feature writer for The Age, The Australian, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Independent Weekly and The Adelaide Review. Sharon speaks three languages and has worked in London, Paris, Brussels and Strasbourg as well as Singapore and Malaysia. Since she began broadcasting as a teenager, she has produced and presented almost a thousand hours of radio and television and written hundreds of published articles.

• Creative Writing for the Media
• Reporting for the Media
• Investigative Journalism

Member of the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance.

Certified Professional Manager and Member of the Australian Institute of Management.

Master of Arts Degree in Modern Languages, Wadham College, University of Oxford.

Postgraduate Diploma in Broadcast Journalism, City University, London.

PhD candidate, School of Communication, International Studies and Languages, UniSA.

Awards: 1989 Peter Kirk Research Scholarship 1990 Courtauld International Travel Scholarship

2001 RACO Media Award: Print journalism.

2007 SA Media Awards: Best Radio Broadcaster, Best Freelance, Best Radio Documentary.

2008 Amnesty International Media Awards: Nominated.

2009 SA Media Awards: Best Freelance Contribution.

2010 SA Media Awards: Best Radio Broadcaster, Best Freelance, Best Radio Documentary.

2011 Walkley Awards: Commended by judging panel for coverage of Indigenous Affairs.

2012 SA Media Awards: Best Radio Broadcaster, Best Radio Current Affairs

• The Anzac Legend
• Ethnographic Journalism
• Critical Discourse Analysis of Media Coverage
• Narratives of War
• Qualititative Research Methodologies in a Journalistic Context

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

Discipline: Journalism

• Journalism Education
• Freelance Journalism
• Investigative Journalism
• Media Representations of the Anzac Legend
• Narratives of War