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.
About me
Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA)
International Communication Association (ICA)
International Association for Mass Communication and Media Research (IAMCR)
About me
Doctor of Philosophy University of South Australia
Master of Arts (Mass Communication) University of Leicester
Bachelor of Arts Flinders University
Journalism and communication ethics, regional/rural journalism, journalism and social capital, research ethics, reporting human tragedy
Research
Research since 2008 is shown below. To see earlier years visit ORCID, ResearcherID or Scopus
Open access indicates that an output is open access.
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2017 |
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2016 |
Open access
5
4
4
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2014 |
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2013 |
1
4
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2012 |
16
13
2
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2017 |
Open access
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2013 |
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2012 |
14
17
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2011 |
1
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2010 |
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2010 |
2
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2016 |
Open access
5
4
4
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2015 |
Open access
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2015 |
Open access
3
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2014 |
Open access
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2013 |
1
4
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2013 |
2
4
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2012 |
16
13
2
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2011 |
Richards, IK 2011, 'Notes from the inside', Australian Journalism Review, vol. 33, no. 1, pp. 17-19.
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2011 |
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2010 |
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2009 |
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2009 |
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Research
Journalism and communication ethics, regional/rural journalism, journalism and social capital, research ethics, reporting human tragedy
Executive member, World Journalism Education Council
Editor, Australian Journalism Review
Dart Foundation Fellowship, Columbia University Graduate School of Journalism, New York, USA
External engagement & recognition
Organisation | Country |
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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 |
External engagement & recognition
Engagement/recognition | Year |
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Dart Australasia Academic FellowshipColumbia University Graduate School |
2015 |
Life MembershipJournalism Education and Research Association, Australia |
2014 |
Senior judge, South Australian Media Awards
Teaching & student supervision
Supervisions from 2010 shown
Thesis title | Student status |
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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 |