Recent appearance on The Screen Show podcast November 5, 2020 where I discuss the origins of the body swap film, right back to the beginnings of cinema, to recent film festival favourites and Japanese animation. I also share my thoughts on U.S. comic Sarah Cooper, the woman who’s been using her own body to…
Concerns over access to research grants for women
ABC TV news interview with me broadcast on Friday November 24, 2017 in which I discuss how we can redress research funding inequality for women (2:39)
Australian research ‘has a Daversity problem’: Analysis shows too many men work mostly with other men
An article published on the ABC website reporting on work undertaken by me, Stuart Palmer and Lachlan Simpson examining gate keeping in Australia’s research funding schemes. Published on Friday November 24, 2017 Continue…
Australian screen industry’s criminal network of men
A report of a brief but important talk I gave at MSIX2017 in November on how to fix the Australian film industry’s gender disparity. Continue…
Even Sweeter: What happens when the humanities gets graphic
A short introduction, written with Toby Burrows, on the new iteration of the Humanities Networked Infrastructure (HuNI) platform. This new iteration enables visitors to take advantage of the platform’s graph searching capabilities. Network graphs, those familiar spiderweb images of interconnection, are a powerful way of uncovering the meaning and significance of the knowledge embedded in cultural collections.
This article describes how some of these features work in HuNI. Continue…
When it comes to a diversity of films, the elephant IS the room
This article written with Bronwyn Coate looks at how films from different countries perform in the Australian market. The cinema is repeatedly held to be dead or dying. Evidence to support these claims is practically non-existent. Each year more and more films are made and released around the world. Our data however, does infer that outside the mainstream ecology of US dominated film exhibition and distribution, the increased number of films has had a “cannibalising” effect, in which intensified competition has produced a disproportionately negative impact on the success of non-US film titles, including Australian films. Published in if Magazine on April 18, 2017. Continue…
Patriarchy is a Pedestrian Issue
The City of Melbourne is introducing a small number of pedestrian light signals with female figures (rather than the default male). This is my very short 10 cents worth in support of the gesture. Broadcast on BBC World Service March 7, 2017 Continue…
A revolution for ticket prices?
Filmgoers may soon have an app that lets them decide how much they want to pay to see a film. A short radio interview about the introduction of dynamic (or demand) cinema ticket pricing in Australia. Recorded with Jason Di Rosso and broadcast on Radio National on Friday 10 February 2017. Continue…
Coming Soon to a cinema near you?
Imagine if you could pay less to see films that are less popular. Dynamic (or demand based) ticket pricing already happens in China and its about to start in Australia. An article written with Bronwyn Coate for The Conversation and published on 7 February 2017. Continue…
Go Figure
Edited online version of an article published in Summer 2016 issue of The Equity Magazine:
“What if women were not the problem that needed to be addressed and we recast the problem as a preponderance of men? What if we gave as much attention to understanding male behaviours in the film industry as we have given to the evident lack of women? What if the key to achieving statistical equivalence wasn’t more women but fewer men?”
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