Overview
Terry Flew is Professor of Media and Communications in the Creative Industries Faculty, and Head of the Fashion, Journalism and Media & Communication Portfolio at the Queensland University of Technology, Brisbane, Australia.
From 2001-2006, he was the Head of Media and Communication in the Creative Industries Faculty, and from 2006-2008 was Head of Postgraduate Studies. He was President of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association from 2009-2010, having previously been ANZCA Vice-President and Treasurer. He organised the ANZCA09: Communications, Creativity and Global Citizenship, the 2009 Annual Conference of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association, held at QUT from 8-10 July 2009.
He has a wide range of research interests and research experience, and has been an author of three books (one in press), 11 research monographs, 32 book chapters, 51 refereed academic journal articles (with a further six with referees), and has been an editor of 11 special issues/themed sections of academic journals and refereed conference proceedings (one forthcoming).
In terms of academic quality, 15 of 23 refereed journal articles published since 2003 (66%) have been published in academic journals ranked A* or A by the Australian Research Council in its Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) rankings. Three of the six articles currently with academic referees have been submitted to A* or A ranked journals.
He is the author of Australia’s leading new media textbook, New Media: An Introduction. New Media was first published by Oxford University Press in December 2002, with the second edition published in January 2005. The third edition was published in January 2008, with substantially new material and the inclusion of interviews and case studies. New Media: An Introduction has sold over 9,000 copies over its three editions.
His second book, Understanding Global Media, was published by Palgrave in March 2007. It has been translated into Arabic and Polish.
His forthcoming book, The Creative Industries, Culture and Policy, is currently with Sage, and will be published in November 2011.
In addition, he is contracted to complete Global Creative Industries for Palgrave by June 2011, and is contracted to co-author two forthcoming books: Media Economics (Publisher: Palgrave; co-author: Stuart Cunningham; due date: September 2012), and Key Concepts in the Creative Industries (Publisher: Sage; co-authors: John Hartley, Stuart Cunningham, Michael Keane, Jason Potts and John Banks; due date: November 2012).
He has also contributed book chapters to leading international publications, including Dewesternising Media Studies (eds. J. Curran and M.-J. Park, Routledge, 2000), Handbook of New Media (eds. L. Lievrouw and S. Livingstone, Sage, 2002), Creative Industries (ed. J. Hartley, Blackwell, 2005), and Managing Media Work (eds. M, Deuze, 2010). He has also been published in first-tier scholarly international academic journals such as Media, Culture and Society, International Journal of Cultural Policy, Television and New Media, Communication and Critical/Cultural Studies and International Journal of Cultural Studies.
He has been engaged with projects that have received over $4 million in research funding, including $3.75 million in national competitive grant funding. He has been actively involved in three major collaborative projects that have been among the first of their kind in the arts and humanities in Australia: the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation, the ARC Cultural Research Network, and the Smart Services Co-operative Research Centre.
He was First Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkages-Projects Grant titled Investigating Innovative Applications of Digital Media for Participatory Journalism and Citizen Engagement in Australian Public Communication from 2006-2009. The industry partners on this ‘citizen journalism’ project were the Special Broadcasting Service, Cisco Systems Australia and New Zealand and The National Forum (publishers of On Line Opinion). The project web site you decide 2007, developed for the 2007 Australian Federal election, was identified by the Department of Broadband, Communications and the Digital Economy as an exemplar of community engagement in the digital economy. The project team generated 11 book chapters, 12 refereed academic journal articles, and 10 papers in fully refereed conference proceedings.
He was First Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery-Project titled Creative Suburbia: A Critical Evaluation of the Scope for Creative Cultural Development in Australia’s Suburban and Peri-Urban Communities during 2008-2010. This project involved researchers at QUT and Monash University, and undertook Australia’s first major qualitative study into the nature of the creative workforce in outer suburban areas, with case studies in Brisbane and Melbourne. The project team has thus far generated two book chapters, nine refereed academic journal articles, and 20 papers in fully refereed conference proceedings, including special issues of the journals International Journal of Cultural Studies (A* in ERA rankings), The Information Society and M/C.
He is a Chief Investigator with the ARC Centre of Excellence for Creative Industries and Innovation (CCI), primarily engaged with the Asian Creative Transformations work program, with an involvement in the Mapping the Pro-Am Interface work program. The CCI is the first ARC Centre of Excellence in the arts and humanities in Australia, and is a cross disciplinary, internationally-focused centre addressing key problems and opportunities arising for Australia from innovation in both the creative economy.
He is a member of the Smart Services Co-operative Research Centre, which received $30.6 million in Commonwealth funding in December 2006, and has an additional $21.7 million in industry, public sector and university support. The Smart Services CRC involves 14 industry and government partners as well as six universities across nine work programs. Flew has led the Audience and Market Foresight and New Media Services work programs, engaged with industry partners including Fairfax Digital, Australian Museum and Powerhouse Museum.
He was a member of the Cultural Research Network, which has received $1.75 million in ARC funding over the 2005-2009 period, with a particular involvement in the Cultural Technologies research node.
He has been Chief Investigator on an ARC Linkages grant with Kids Help Line to develop interactive web-based counselling for young people, as well as a Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery grant, Internationalising Creative Industries: China, the WTO, and the Knowledge-Based Economy. He has also worked with industry partners such as the Brisbane City Council, the Media, Entertainment and Arts Alliance, On Line Opinion and the Communications Law Centre.
He has been an author of two Evaluations and Investigations Program reports for the Department of Education, Training and Youth Affairs, New Media and Borderless Education (1997) and The Business of Borderless Education (2000).
He has supervised eight PhD theses and five research Masters theses to completion, and is currently the principal supervisor of eight PhD candidates. He has supervised students from China, Taiwan, Germany, Malaysia and Singapore, and has supervised students in collaborative projects with industry partners including the Special Broadcasting Service and Fairfax Digital.