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This article discusses the current state of journalism research in Australian universities. It does this within the context of the practice-as-research debate and the Excellence in Research for Australia (ERA) initiative. It asks how journalism can confirm a position as a significant research discipline, where programs and staff meet industry and university needs, receive recognition and career advancement when deserved and produce research with impact. It poses a series of questions that it argues require urgent addressing if the discipline is to avoid an unnecessary and potentially stifling traditional research/practice divide, and ends by offering suggestions as to how the staffing needs of journalism teaching programs in Australian universities might be fit/filled while also ensuring the discipline generates internationally recognisable and methodologically diverse research.

Item Type:	Refereed Article
Keywords:	Journalism research, Journalism practice, Australia, Universities
Research Division:	Studies in Creative Arts and Writing
Research Group:	Journalism and Professional Writing
Research Field:	Journalism Studies
Objective Division:	Cultural Understanding
Objective Group:	Communication
Objective Field:	The Media
UTAS Author:	Lester, EA (Professor Elizabeth Lester)
ID Code:	101993
Year Published:	2015
Deposited By:	Social Sciences
Deposited On:	2015-07-22
Last Modified:	2018-02-17
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