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Alan McKee
Associate Professor Alan McKee has spent his career researching and challenging prejudice and oppression of minority groups across culture. He has written on Indigenous representation, Queer representation, gender and culture and class and culture.
He is well respected both in the academic community and in the real world.
In the academic community he has published with Cambridge University Press (The Public Sphere) Oxford University Press (Australian Television; and The Indigenous Public Sphere, with John Hartley), with Sage publishers, one of the largest social science publishers in the world (Textual Analysis) and Blackwell Publishing one of America’s most prestigious arts publishers (Beautiful Things in Popular Culture). He has published over fifty refereed journal articles.
In the real world, he has worked on Big Brother, The Einstein Factor, A Current Affair, Today Tonight and The Sideshow, for ABC radio and community newspapers as well as a number of community television programs.
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Kath Albury
Kath is an ARC Postdoctoral Fellow at the Journalism and Media Research Centre at the University of NSW. She has lectured in Media and Communications and Gender and Cultural Studies at the University of Sydney.
Since 1996 she has worked with the fabulous Vanessa Wagner as sexual health educator/entertainer, in the guise of her alter ego 'Nurse Nancy'. With Vanessa, she has performed for organizations including the AIDS Treatment Project Australia, and National Association of People with AIDS. Kath has been a member of the NSW Health Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS and STIs, Health Promotion Sub Committee since 2004. She is a member of the Australian Society of Sex Educators, Researchers and Therapists (ASSERT NSW), and the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia.
In 2004-2005 Kath worked on the 'Playing By the Rules' project, commissioned by the National Rugby League, devising and delivering educational workshops for professional Rugby League players. The project won a NSW Premier's Violence Against Women Prevention Award in 2005. Her current research - a collaboration between UNSW, the National Rugby League and the NSW Rape Crisis Centre - will expand and extend this work.
Kath is an experienced media commentator, and has written opinion articles and features for publications including The Sydney Morning Herald, The Australian, and New Matilda.com. She was a founding member of 'The Brains Trust' on ABC TV's The Einstein Factor, presented segments for BBC 3's series Sex, Warts and All Down Under, and was the regular television reviewer for ABC Radio National's The Deep End from 2004-2005. She was also sex columnist for Triple J's JMag in 2006.
Her first book Yes Means Yes: getting explicit about heterosex was published in 2002.
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Catharine Lumby
Professor Catharine Lumby is the Director of the Centre for Social Research in Journalism and Communication at the University of NSW. The author and editor of seven books, she has been writing about gender, sexuality and media for two decades. Catharine’s interest in debates around pornography stems from her longstanding work in feminist theory and politics and her more recent research on children and teenagers media consumption.