Ms Susan Hetherington
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Biography
Susan Hetherington is a journalism lecturer in the Creative Industries Faculty at QUT.
She is a veteran newspaper journalist having worked in Australia and in London before moving into the academia. She continues to have strong industry links having been a weekly contributor to ABC Radio in Brisbane and in the regions for 15 years.
Her Research Masters ‘Little Brother is Watching You: Preschool children, television news and responsibility in Australia’ in 2004 laid the groundwork for an ongoing research interest into children and the media in Australia and more recently, her research interests have diversified to include the use of information communication technologies in teaching and the best practice for teaching new journalism technologies in Australia.
Personal details
Positions
- Lecturer
Faculty of Creative Industries, Education & Social Justice,
School of Communication
Keywords
Children & TV violence (esp Sept 11), Childrens' entertainment, Media use of children by politicians
Discipline
Journalism and Professional Writing
Field of Research code, Australian and New Zealand Standard Research Classification (ANZSRC), 2008
Qualifications
- Master of Arts (Research) (Queensland University of Technology)
- Bachelor of Business (Communication) (Queensland University of Technology)
Publications
QUT ePrints
For more publications by Susan, explore their research on ePrints (our digital repository).