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Professor Ian Richards

Ian Richards is Adjunct Professor of Journalism Studies at the University of South Australia.

He is an Australian Research Council "Expert of International Standing", and in 2014 was awarded life membership of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) in recognition of his contribution to Australian journalism research and education. JERAA represents Australia’s journalism and journalism studies academics.

Professor Richards was editor of Australian Journalism Review, Australia's leading refereed journal in the academic fields of journalism and journalism studies, from 2003-2017. His research interests include journalism and media ethics, and regional/rural journalism. In 2010 he became the... Read more

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Ian Richards is Adjunct Professor of Journalism Studies at the University of South Australia.

He is an Australian Research Council "Expert of International Standing", and in 2014 was awarded life membership of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA) in recognition of his contribution to Australian journalism research and education. JERAA represents Australia’s journalism and journalism studies academics.

Professor Richards was editor of Australian Journalism Review, Australia's leading refereed journal in the academic fields of journalism and journalism studies, from 2003-2017. His research interests include journalism and media ethics, and regional/rural journalism. In 2010 he became the inaugural Dart Australasia Academic Fellow when he was awarded a Dart Foundation Fellowship at Columbia University’s Graduate School of Journalism in New York, USA.

He is an executive member of the World Journalism Education Council (WJEC), an informal coalition representing 32 academic associations involved in journalism and mass communication at university level. He was heavily involved in organising all four WJEC congresses held so far (New Zealand 2016; Belgium 2013; South Africa 2010 and Singapore 2007). 

In 2010 and again in 2012, Professor Richards was a member of the Australian Research Council’s Humanities and Creative Arts Research Evaluation Committee set up as part of the Australian Government's ERA (Excellence in Research Australia) exercise. ERA is designed to assess research quality within Australia's higher education institutions using a combination of indicators and expert review.

Professor Richards chaired UniSA's Human Research Ethics Committee from 2005 to 2011, and from 2014-16 was Research Integrity Adviser for the Division of EAS. This position, which is aligned with the Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research , involved advising staff and HDR students in relation to research practice and allegations of research misconduct.

While Chair of UniSA’s HREC, Professor Richards oversaw major changes to the University's research ethics approval system and the University's response to the revised Australian Code for the Responsible Conduct of Research. In 2008, he chaired a small working party which organised and ran Australia’s first national forum on non-medical research and the National Statement on Ethical Conduct in Human Research (the national standard which guides ethics committees at Australian universities).

Professor Richards was one of 12 invited presenters at an international communication ethics colloquium in Grand Rapids, Michigan, USA in 2008 to mark the retirement of eminent scholar Clifford Christians, and an invited presenter at an intensive media ethics colloquium organised by the University of Montreal and McGill University in Montreal, Canada in 2009. He was also an invited speaker at UNESCO’s “International Symposium on Media and Ethics” in Ankara, Turkey, in 2006, and one of 15 journalism educators and researchers invited to Paris, France, by UNESCO's Division for Communication Development for the first "Experts' Consultative Meeting on Journalism Education" in 2005.

As a member of a working party formed by UniSA, Flinders University and the University of Adelaide, Professor Richards was closely involved in the establishment of the collaborative Ethics Centre of South Australia (ECSA), and continued to be involved until ECSA's demise in 2012.

A former newspaper journalist, he has a wide range of journalistic experience extending from general reporting to leader-writing and covering indigenous affairs for a metropolitan daily newspaper. He has worked and studied in Australia and the United Kingdom, and is a past president of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA). He was also awarded the first PhD in journalism in the state of South Australia.

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Professional Associations

Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA)

International Communication Association (ICA)

International Association for Mass Communication and Media Research (IAMCR)

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Experience

Qualifications

  • Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia

  • Master of Arts (Mass Communication) University of Leicester

  • Bachelor of Arts Flinders University

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Research themes

  • Transforming societies

Highlights

Journalism and communication ethics, regional/rural journalism, journalism and social capital, research ethics, reporting human tragedy

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Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus

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Highlights

Year Output
2017

Richards, I & Self, CC 2017, 'Going global: journalism education gets its act together', in RS Goodman & E Steyn (eds), Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations, Regent Press, Berkeley, California, USA, ch. 12, pp. 267-280.

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2016

Hanusch, F, Clifford, K, Davies, K, English, P, Fulton, J, Lindgren, M, O'Donnell, P, Price, J, Richards, I & Zion, L 2016, 'For the lifestyle and a love of creativity: Australian students' motivations for studying journalism', Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: Quarterly Journal of Media Research and Resources, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 101-113.

Open access 5 4 4
2014

Richards, IK 2014, 'Differences over difference: journalism beyond the metropolis', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 5-14.

Open access
2013

Richards, I & Wasserman, H 2013, 'The heart of the matter: journal editors and journals', Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 823-836.

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2012

Richards, I 2012, 'Beyond city limits : regional journalism and social capital', Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 627-642.

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2017

Richards, I & Self, CC 2017, 'Going global: journalism education gets its act together', in RS Goodman & E Steyn (eds), Global Journalism Education in the 21st Century: Challenges and Innovations, Regent Press, Berkeley, California, USA, ch. 12, pp. 267-280.

Open access
2013

Richards, I 2013, 'Dirty hands and investigative journalism', in S Tanner & N Richardson (eds), Journalism research and investigation in a digital world, Oxford University Press, Australia, ch. 14, pp. 181-187.

2012

Josephi, B & Richards, I 2012, 'The Australian journalist in the 21st century', in DH Weaver & L Willnat (eds), The global journalist in the 21st century, Routledge, US, ch. 10, pp. 115-125.

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2011

Richards, I 2011, 'The dilemma of trust', in RS Fortner & PM Fackler (eds), The handbook of global communications and media ethics, 1st ed., Wiley-Blackwell, United States, vol. 1, ch. 14, pp. 247-262.

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2010

Richards, I 2010, 'The strange case of trust in journalism', in R Fortner (ed.), Ethics and evil in the public sphere: media, universal values and global development, Hampton Press, Cresskill, New Jersey, ch. 5, pp. 79-92.

2010

Richards, IK 2010, 'Journalism's tangled web : business, ethics and professional practice', in C Meyers (ed.), Journalism ethics: a philosophical approach, Oxford University Press, New York, ch. 11, pp. 171-183.

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2016

Hanusch, F, Clifford, K, Davies, K, English, P, Fulton, J, Lindgren, M, O'Donnell, P, Price, J, Richards, I & Zion, L 2016, 'For the lifestyle and a love of creativity: Australian students' motivations for studying journalism', Media International Australia Incorporating Culture and Policy: Quarterly Journal of Media Research and Resources, vol. 160, no. 1, pp. 101-113.

Open access 5 4 4
2015

Hanusch, F, Clifford, K, Davies, K, English, P, Fulton, J, Lindgren, M, O'Donnell, P, Price, J, Richards, I & Zion, L 2015, 'Australian journalism students' professional views and news consumption: results from a representative study', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 37, no. 1, pp. 5-20.

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2015

Wasserman, H & Richards, I 2015, 'On the factory floor of the knowledge production plant: editors' perspectives on publishing in academic journals', Critical Arts: A South-North Journal of Cultural and Media Studies, vol. 29, no. 6, pp. 725-745.

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2014

Richards, IK 2014, 'Differences over difference: journalism beyond the metropolis', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 36, no. 1, pp. 5-14.

Open access
2013

Richards, I & Wasserman, H 2013, 'The heart of the matter: journal editors and journals', Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, vol. 14, no. 6, pp. 823-836.

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2013

Richards, IK & Josephi, B 2013, 'Investigative journalism on campus: The Australian experience', Journalism Practice, vol. 7, no. 2, pp. 199-211.

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2012

Richards, I 2012, 'Beyond city limits : regional journalism and social capital', Journalism: Theory, Practice and Criticism, vol. 14, no. 5, pp. 627-642.

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2011

Richards, IK 2011, 'Notes from the inside', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 17-19.

Open access
2011

Richards, IK, Chia, JH & Bowd, KJ 2011, 'When communities communicate: rural media and social capital', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 97-106.

Open access
2010

Richards, I 2010, 'Exploring media's role in a democracy', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 32, no. 1, pp. 117-118.

Open access
2009

Richards, I 2009, 'Uneasy bedfellows : ethics committees and journalism research', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 31, no. 2, pp. 35-46.

Open access
2009

Richards, IK 2009, 'Managing the margins: how journalism reports the vulnerable', Asia Pacific Media Educator, vol. 19, pp. 15-22.

Conferences

Year Output
2011

Bowd, KJ, Chia, JH & Richards, IK 2011, 'Community and connection in regional Australia and Canada: regional media as a catalyst for social capital development', in A Henderson (ed.), 2011 ANZCA conference, Australian and New Zealand Communication Association, pp. 1-16.

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Journalism and communication ethics, regional/rural journalism, journalism and social capital, research ethics, reporting human tragedy

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Collaborations

Highlights

Executive member, World Journalism Education Council

Editor, Australian Journalism Review

Dart Foundation Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, USA

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Organisation Country
227 International UNITED STATES
Edith Cowan University AUSTRALIA
La Trobe University AUSTRALIA
Monash University AUSTRALIA
Queensland University of Technology AUSTRALIA
Rhodes University SOUTH AFRICA
University of Cape Town SOUTH AFRICA
University of Newcastle AUSTRALIA
University of South Australia AUSTRALIA
University of Sydney AUSTRALIA
University of Tasmania AUSTRALIA
University of Technology Sydney AUSTRALIA
University of the Sunshine Coast AUSTRALIA
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Dart Australasia Academic Fellowship

Columbia University Graduate School

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Life Membership

Journalism Education and Research Association, Australia

2014

Other

Senior judge, South Australian Media Awards

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Communication, ethics and the public servant: equality, reciprocity, truth and authenticity Completed
Local voice, local choice: Australian country newspapers and notions of community Completed
Making new connections: reconceptualising Australia's small commercial newspapers and their relationship to social capital Completed
Negotiating medical news: a study of Australian medical-health journalists and their public relations sources Completed
Reading alien lips: Australian press depiction of lip sewing by asylum seekers and the construction of national identity Completed
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