KATHRYN SHINE
Dr Kathryn Shine is an Associate Professor and Deputy Head of the School of Media, Creative Arts and Social Inquiry. She teaches news writing, multimedia reporting and long form journalism. Kathryn previously worked as a senior journalist at The Australian newspaper and at The Sun Herald in Sydney. She has worked for country and suburban newspapers in Western Australia, including POST Newspapers. She has contributed to numerous Australian newspapers, websites and magazines as a freelance reporter, and continues to freelance as a writer, editor and moderator.
Kathryn has a Bachelor of Arts (English) with a journalism major from Curtin, a Bachelor of Mass Communication (Honours) from Murdoch University and a PhD from the University of Western Australia. Her research interests include the inclusion and representation of women in the news and news coverage of education. She has written about her research for websites including The Conversation.
KAYT DAVIES
Dr Kayt Davies started writing for her local paper and talking on her local radio station while she was still in high school. This paved the way for a cadetship on The West Australian that led her towards finance journalism and The Western Mail.
Then London called and she found herself in the Visnews newsroom, packaging news from around the world for delivery to TV stations in 187 countries.
A stint as editor of Perth Woman magazine led to being editor-in-chief of a group of six magazines in an indie-media company and then casual university lecturing turned into a vocation. In 12 years at Edith Cowan University she completed a doctorate, became head of the journalism program, spent five years on the executive of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia, started supervising postgraduate students and developed a research portfolio.
Her research interests include the use of journalism as a research methodology, the challenges facing journalists in Pacific nations, and how data journalism can be incorporated into undergraduate programs.
At Curtin, Kayt teaches Introduction of Journalism Writing; News Writing and Reporting; Features Journalism; and some units in the post-graduate program, including Entrepreneurial Journalism.
RUSSELL BISHOP
Russell is a graduate from WAIT, the forerunner to Curtin University, whose career since 1979 has been divided between working as a reporter and teaching broadcast journalism.
His career began in radio, with stints in commercial news and later the BBC, before he returned to Australia to work with the Seven and Nine TV networks in Sydney.
For many years Russell also worked as a freelance reporter/producer for Australian TV programs and international networks.
At Curtin, Russell teaches Introduction to Broadcast, Presentation for Broadcast, Video News, Multimedia News Production, Journalism Major Project and coordinates Journalism’s Industry Placement program. He is also the Undergraduate Course Coordinator.
He is a co-author of Australian Broadcast Journalism, third edition, and co-Executive Producer of five seasons of Noongar Dandjoo, a national TV-series dedicated to Western Australia’s Noongar community.
GLYNN GREENSMITH
Glynn is the Course Co-ordinator for both the Undergraduate and Postgraduate programs. He teaches the Introduction to Journalism Broadcast unit for first year students, and the introductory unit Understanding Journalism for postgraduate students. He also teaches Radio News, Multimedia News Production, Journalism Major Project, and designed and co-ordinates the prestigious Study Tour unit.
Glynn was a nationwide radio presenter for the ABC until the end of 2022, and was with the public broadcaster from 2005.
Glynn’s PhD thesis is on the media coverage of mass shootings, and he has written extensively on the subject, as well as being involved in national TV and radio interviews.
Glynn has a BA (Honours) in International Relations and a Post Graduate Diploma in Journalism, both from the Nottingham Trent University in the UK.
THOMAS JAYAPRAKASH YESUDHASAN
Thomas teaches Media Law and Ethics to undergraduate and postgraduate students. Before joining Curtin, he worked as senior lecturer and Head of the Department of Media, Culture and Communication at Curtin Sarawak, Malaysia.
Earlier, he lectured and tutored in the School of Communications and Multimedia at Edith Cowan University, where he taught Media in Asia, Introduction to Media and Communication, Global Communications, and Effective Communication Strategies.
Before becoming an academic, Thomas worked as a staff correspondent in the newspaper industry in India. In addition, he presented several educational and entertainment radio programs for broadcast on All India Radio.
Thomas is a life member of the Asian Media Information and Communication center, the premier institution for research and publications in the field of media and communication.
The 2000 joint winner of Asian Radio Write Award, instituted by the Radio Corporation of Singapore and Asian Media Information and Communication Center, Thomas has presented many international conference papers.
He has published journal articles, and book chapters in the context of radio and television consumption in Asia.
Thomas holds a Masters in Journalism and Mass Communication from the University of Madras and a PhD in Media Studies from Edith Cowan University.
SARAH TAILLIER
Sarah has a diverse media background. She honed her love for broadcasting while volunteering at a local radio station.
Her career officially started when she moved to regional Western Australia to work as a video journalist for the WIN News Network. She then became a multi-platform reporter at the ABC, where she was also the Lead Reporter for the Mid-West, Wheatbelt, Goldfields and Esperance regions.
Sarah subsequently worked in London in television production before returning to ABC Perth to take up a radio producing role.
She was a producer on the Focus program in 2020 before moving to the statewide Afternoons program.
At Curtin, Sarah teaches into Journalism Major Project, Multimedia News Production, Presentation for Broadcast, Radio News and Video News. Sarah is the editor of the Western Independent.