PhD
2001
Qld University of Technology
MBus
(Communication Studies)
1999
QUT
GradDip
Communication (with Distinction)
1998
QUT
UQ Business
School award for research scholarship (2000)
QUT
Dean’s Award for academic excellence (1999)
QUTFBA/APA
PhD scholarship with stipend (1999)
2000-present
Lecturer
(Communication)
Dept of Management
University of Queensland
Duties
include developing and publishing research; developing and securing research
grants; developing a new Masters program in Communication; preparing courses;
teaching; professional and community service; departmental committee membership;
promoting the department and University by presenting at conferences; promoting
our program to relevant industries.
The
specific fields of communication that I am interested in are:
communication, media, and technology policy; media practices for management;
organisational communication; discourse analysis methods and theories; knowledge
management; communication theory; and influence and persuasion.
Full-time
doctoral research; research grant development; lecturing and tutoring on a
casual basis in “new technology and society”
subjects at postgraduate and undergraduate levels; tutoring
on a casual basis for “theoretical perspectives on
communication” at postgraduate and undergraduate levels.
Researcher, tutor, lecturer (all casual positions) at QUT in the School of Communication. As well as developing and participating in various research grants, I taught “new technology and society” subjects at postgraduate and undergraduate levels; “theoretical perspectives on communication” at postgraduate and undergraduate levels; and was responsible for developing students’ abilities to conduct research in these areas. I also developed and wrote communication courses for the Faculty MBA program.
Coordinator
of the Associate Diploma in Business; lecturing duties; write and publish
materials for the 44 subjects in the course for sale and use in an
Australia-Wide network of commercial colleges (Wentworth Group of Colleges).
Communication management duties including media planning; market research; organisational research; public relations; creative strategy consultancy; production of print, radio, audio; media strategy; promotions; events management; writing and production of television advertisements and corporate videos; design direct marketing items for national and international clients including: Drake International - Hitachi (Aust) - TMVC - Suncorp - Honiara Casino - Stanley Tools (Qld).
Our work for Drake International entailed international market research and required the coordination of over 120 people across three continents. We conducted market and organisational research for Drake International in four countries throughout the Southern hemisphere.
Advertising management duties including cooperative subsidy program and associated market research (102 participants, national and international); publishing, design, and coordination of delivery of 500,000 thirty-two-page catalogues per quarter; placement, production, planning and direct booking of print, magazine, radio and television advertising for all stores (14 stores in 9 media regions spanning 2 States); design & construction of database to track media placements against cooperative subsidy levels, and to generate supplier and management reports; liaise and negotiate cooperative terms with suppliers’ State, National, and International management.
Production, performance and composition
credits for clients including: Ansett
Australia -
Telecom
Australia - Toyota – Queensland Tourism and Travel Corporation - Northern
Territory Road Safety Council – Australian Anti-Smoking Lobby - Qantas -
Powers Beer Budweiser Beer - Dreamworld - Seaworld - Mirage Resorts - XXXX Beer
(Numerous campaigns) - London Broncos - Australia Post - Channel 9 (National) -
Channel 9 News (Qld) - Channel 7 News (Qld) - Jupiters Casino - Treasury Casino
- Liberal Party - Boags Beer - Stubbies Clothing Co. - Brisbane Bullets - M.I.
Steel - Golden Circle - National Photographic Gallery – Queensland United
Farmers - Laing & Simmons Real Estate - State of Origin Rugby League - VACC
Insurance - Team Nissan - Toyworld - Peters Drumstick - Fashion Fair - Metro
Nissan - Currumbin Wildlife Sanctuary - Amazons Water Park - Drake International
- Camping World - Queensland Mangoes - Queensland Fruit Growers - Grace Removals
- Qld Canegrowers Asscn - Over 200 regional clients.
Peter Wells - Everything you like tries to kill you - WEA (Pre prod)
Gyan - Reddest Red - Trafalgar/WEA (Pre production/arrangement)
The Lime Spiders - Lime Spiders - Virgin (Sessions)
Candy Harlots - Candy Harlots - WEA (Pre prod)
Hot Buttered - Sultans 2 - (Produce/compose/perform)
Skin Game - Boy Down My Street - Independent (Produce/compose/perform)
In The Flesh - Love Turned - Royal Records (Produce/engineer)
The Slow Club - The Slow Club (Virgin Records - sessions)
Clients including: Flying Fruit Fly Circus (1989 season) - Production and performance of original accompanying score and technical consultant (audio design); The Australian Broadcasting Corporation - ‘Catalyst’ (ABC Childrens Science TV Series) - Production of theme and incidental music tracks; Mavis Bramston Productions – ‘Frenchman’s Farm’ - Composition & Production of songs for incidental use in filmscore; Warner-Chappel Music - New Artist Development - Produce and arrange commercial music recordings for new artists; Hot Buttered Surf Company - Album and movie soundtrack released in 22 Countries; Geo Magazine - ‘Birds of Australia’ wildlife documentary series - Compose and produce themes, atmospherics and incidentals to a series of wildlife documentaries for world-wide release; Environmental Design & Construct – ‘Smorgy’s’ animatronics Shows - Compose, produce, and environmental audio design for $AU30 million animatronics show; The Roland Corporation - Sponsorship and series of audio clinics to demonstrate the production benefits of early computer audio equipment to professional musicians.
Clients including: Carlton United
Breweries
- Write and produce series of theatre restaurant shows. Duties include
scripting, musical composition, casting, direction, lighting, audio and stage
design; LJ Hooker Property Management Division - Production and performance
of children’s shows for suburban shopping centres. Duties include scripting,
casting, lighting, audio and set design; Elizabethan
Restaurants - Performance & audio design for touring theatre restaurant
production; Fillums Casting Agency
(Director) - Casting acting talent for The Grundy Organisation, numerous
advertisements, and the Qld State Theatre; Ibis
Productions - Talent agency providing entertainment for Hotels, Club, and
public events. Events talent coordination for the inaugural “Great Aussie
Picnic” and “The Warana Festival”, which were significant,
government-sponsored public events at that time.
Member:
International
Advisory Board, New Media & Society, Sage Publications
Member:
Association of Internet Researchers.
Convenor:
CDA seminar
series. Develop, present, and facilitate a series of seminars on contemporary
Critical Discourse Analysis (CDA) methods for PhD students from Universities in
Qld, Northern NSW, and SE Asia
(July – October, 2000, 2001).
Co-convenor:
“Language and New Capitalism” stream of the Critical Management Studies.
Conference, Manchester University, July 2001.
Member:
UQ Department of Management – Teaching and Learning Committee.
Member:
UQ Department of Management – Research and Development Committee.
Member:
Knowledge management – Departmental subject committee.
Member:
Working group to
develop and implement Master of Communication programs for 2001.
Armitage, J. & Graham, P. (2001). Dromoeconomics: Towards a political economy of speed. Parallax, 7 (1): 111-123. [for the special issue on “Battaille’s economies of excess”].
Graham, P. (2001). Why study the media?. [Review]. Information, communication, and society.
Graham, P. & G. Hearn. (2001). The coming of post-reflexive society. Media International Australia (98): 79-90. [for the special issue on “Technoculture”].
Graham, P. (2001). The ideological context of business: Capital. In J.M. Harrison, (Ed.). Ethics for Australian Business (pp. 10-24). Sydney: Prentice Hall.
Graham, P. (2000).
Hypercapitalism: A political economy of informational idealism. New Media and
Society, 2 (2): 131-156.
McKenna, B. &
Graham, P. (2000). Technocratic Discourse: A primer. Journal of Technical
Writing and Communication, 30, (3): 219-247.
Graham, P. & McKenna, B. J. (2000). A theoretical and analytical synthesis of autopoiesis and sociolinguistics for the study of organisational communication. Social Semiotics, 10 (1): 41-59.
Graham, P. (1999).
Critical systems theory: A political economy of language, thought, and
technology. Communication Research, 26 (4), 482-507.
Graham, P. (1999). Autopoiesis, language, literacy, and the brain. Fine Print, 22 (2), 2-5.
McKenna, B.J.
& Graham, P. (1999). Marxism Today [Review]. Culture Machine. http://culturemachine.tees.ac.uk/Reviews/rev1.htm
McKenna, B.J. & Graham, P. (1999). The language of Biotechnology: a brief analysis. [On-line] http://www.brisinst.socialchange.net.au/resources/McGra_language.html. Brisbane: The Brisbane Institute.
Graham, P. (1998).
Globalist fallacies, fictions, and facts: The MAI and neo-classic ideology. Australian
Rationalist, 46, 15-21.
Graham, P. (in press). Predication and propagation: A method for analysing evaluative meanings in technology policy. TEXT.
Graham, P. (in press). Critical discourse analysis and values: Interdisciplinarity as a critical turn. In G. Weiss & R. Wodak (eds). Theory and Interdisciplinarity in Critical Discourse Analysis. London: MacMillan.
Graham, P. (in press). Space: Irrealis objects in technology policy and their role in the creation of a new political economy. Discourse and Society, 12 (5).
Graham, P. (in press). Space and cyberspace: On the enclosure of consciousness. In J. Armitage and J. Roberts. (Eds). Living With Cyberspace: Technology & Society in the 21st Century. London: The Athlone Press.
Graham, P. & Rooney, D. (in press). A sociolinguistic approach to applied epistemology: Examining technocratic values in global ‘Knowledge’ Policy. Journal of social epistemology. [for the 2001 special issue on the commercialisation of epistemology].
Graham, P. (in press). Contradictions and institutional convergences: Genre as method. Journal of future studies.
Graham, P. & Paulsen, N. (in press). “Skilled” discourses and (un)employment: Mapping the “third sector”. TEXT. [for the 2002 special issue on “Discourse, Globalisation and (un)Employment”. G. Weiss ed.].
Graham, P. (in press). New media, language, and social perceptions of value. Discourse and Society. [for the 2002 special issue on “Language in the New Capitalism”. N. Fairclough, ed.].
Fairclough, N. & Graham, P. (forthcoming). Marx and discourse analysis: Genesis of a critical method. [MS submitted].
Graham, P.
(forthcoming). Time, space, and political economy: A history of hype and
hypercapitalism. [MS submitted].
Graham, P. (forthcoming). The Third Way: Britain under Blair. In Brown, K., Graham, P., McKenna, B. J., & Ryan, N. Challenges to liberal democracy. [MS submitted].
Graham, P. & Hearn, G. (forthcoming). The digital Dark Ages: A retro-speculative history of possible futures. for New Media & Society. [MS in preparation]
Graham, P. & Hearn, G. (2000). The digital Dark Ages: A retro-speculative history of possible futures. Internet Research 1.0:The State of the Interdiscipline. Paper for the First Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. September 14-17, 2000: University of Kansas.
Hearn, G. & Graham, P. (2000). The coming of post-reflexive society: A critique of the political economy of digital capitalism. Internet Research 1.0:The State of the Interdiscipline. Paper for the First Conference of the Association of Internet Researchers. September 14-17, 2000: University of Kansas.
Graham, P. (1999). Hypercapitalism: Political economy, electric identity, and authorial alienation. Exploring Cybersociety. Proceedings of the conference (Vol 1), 5-7 July, 1999, Newcastle, UK: Northumbria University.
Graham, P. (1999). Heidegger’s hippies: A dissenting voice on "the problem of the subject" [Conference paper] Identities in action! 10-12 December, 1999, University of Wales.
Graham, P. (1999). Widening the context for interdisciplinary social research: SFL as a method for sociology, anthropology, and communication research. ASFLA ‘99. Proceedings of the conference. Paper delivered at the University of Queensland for the Annual conference of the Australian Sytemic Functional Linguistics Asssociation, 1-3 October, 1999.
Graham, P. (1999). Understanding nonsense: Breathing life into shibboleths and killing critical thought in higher education. ASFLA ‘99. Proceedings of the conference. Paper delivered at the University of Queensland for the Annual conference of the Australian Sytemic Functional Linguistics Asssociation, 1-3 October, 1999.
Sunderland, N. & Graham, P. (1998). The role of academic community in higher learning: Alternatives to a drive-thru education. The Third Pacific Rim Conference. Proceedings of the conference (Vol. 1). QUT: Brisbane. Paper delivered at Auckland Institute of Technology, 5-8 July, 1998.
Graham, P. (1998). Submission to the Joint Standing Committee on Treaties concerning the OECD multilateral agreement on investment. Inquiry into the multilateral agreement on investment: Submissions (Vol. 3), pp. 599-615. Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
Graham, P. (1998).
The dead hand of government. [Transcript of an address to the Joint Standing
Committee on Treaties concerning the OECD multilateral agreement on investment].
Inquiry into the multilateral agreement on investment: Public Hearings.
Canberra: Commonwealth of Australia.
* This
publication list does not include published teaching materials that I have
written. I have written 61 of these. They are for students at the Associate
Diploma level; at the undergraduate level; and at Masters, MBA, and PhD levels.
They cover a range of subjects including marketing, statistics, economics,
business law, media theory, communication, technical writing, language analysis,
and rhetorical strategies.
CDA
and transdisciplinary research in the social sciences: Seminar and workshop. Centre for applied ethics, Queensland University
of Technology, May 25, 2001.
Language
and values.
Wittgenstein Centre for Language, University of Vienna, June 30, 2000.
Marx
and CDA.
Lancaster Circle, presented by Professor Norman Fairclough on our behalf,
Lancaster University, May 2000.
Marxism, language, and the political
economy of knowledge. Postgraduate Colloquium and
Workshop. Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy, November 4-6, 1999,
University of Queensland.
Main research interests:
- political economy of communication with a special emphasis on understanding, from a sociolinguistic perspective, how values are created in what has been called a “knowledge economy”;
-
Systems theories of sociology;
-
Functions of language in a “knowledge
economy”; and,
-
Media theory, specifically as it relates to
emergent communication technologies and changed perceptions of value
Current
research projects (not an exhaustive list):
New media, language, and social
perceptions of value - Historical and empirical research analysing the effects of new
media and new media-related policies on social perceptions of value. The
research is theoretically situated in the political economy of communication,
but is methodologically transdisciplinary, drawing on political economy, media
studies, and sociolinguistics.
Managing tradition: University administration and academic values in the “new economy” – Research funded by a grant from the University of Queensland. It investigates perceived schisms between academic and administrative staff in the “commercialisation” of universities. The research sets out to describe the nature and source of the schisms. An assumption of the research is that knowledge production is the “core business” of universities. That academics and administrators appear to agree that knowledge production is the “core business” of the university, yet disagree on how it is best organised and oriented, suggests that their perceptions of what knowledge is, and how it is best produced, are quite divergent if not diametrically opposed. That is the focus of this research.
Conceptions of knowledge in policy
language – Research funded by a grant from the
University of Queensland. I am co-investigator with David Rooney. This project
extends my doctoral research to focus specifically on constructions of knowledge
in policy language. Our concern is to identify the conceptual status of
“knowledge” in policies developed to address the issue of a “knowledge
economy”.
Genre hybridisation and the emergence of new value systems: Discourse-historical research investigating the links between genres, institutions, and value systems and the “hybridisation” thereof. The research compares current socio-economic transitions with those of the late-eleventh to early-twelfth century Western Europe when feudalism was formalised. It extends the work in Digital Dark Ages and Contradictions (see above, Published Works).