ProfessorKristy Hess

Professor

Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation

  • Professor
    Faculty of Arts and Education/School of Communication and Creative Arts/Deakin Institute for Citizenship and Globalisation
  • +61 3 556 33118 (Work)
  • Geelong Waurn Ponds Campus, 75 Pigdons Road, Waurn Ponds, Victoria 3216

TEACHING ACTIVITIES

  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALJ111
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    ALJ304
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Honours supervision
  • UNIT TAUGHT
    Phd supervision in areas of digital journalism, local, rural and agricultural communication, media and place-making, media, social order and civic participation.
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Examining Conversation and Podcasting for Sustainability in Regional and Rural Journalism
    Kirsten Diprose - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Exploring dark political communication in news black holes
    Brigid O'Connell - School of Communication and Creative Arts
  • CURRENT DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Political Influencers in Australia: motivations, output, and how best to theoretically understand them
    Kathleen Claire Lovelock - School of Humanities and Social Sciences
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Mining for News: Examining the impacts of a local newspapers closure in the Australian town of Lightning Ridge
    Marco Magasic - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2022
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    An Examination of Citizen Journalism in Indonesian Television
    Asty Rastiya - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Against the grain: Exploring the sustainability of Australias traditional rural mastheads
    Alison McAdam - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2023
  • COMPLETED DOCTORAL SUPERVISION
    Feral? Australian News Media Representation of the Brumby
    Sarah Jane Vella - School of Communication and Creative Arts - 2025