Director and ARC Federation Fellow 

Graeme Turner is an ARC Federation Fellow, Professor of Cultural Studies, and Director of the Centre for Critical and Cultural Studies. He is one of the key figures in the development of cultural and media studies in Australia and has an outstanding international reputation in the field. His work is used in many disciplines—cultural and media studies, communications, history, literary studies, and film and television studies—and it has been translated into eight languages. Graeme's research interests over the years have been largely in Australian media and popular culture—with large ARC funded projects on television current affairs, talkback radio, and the local celebrity industry—but his Federation Fellow project is a major international study of post-broadcast television and the building of communities.

Graeme Turner was President of the Australian Academy of the Humanities from 2004-2007, and he is the Convenor of the Australian Research Council Cultural Research Network. He sits on many advisory boards, editorial boards, and policy committees; he has served a term on the ARC's College of Experts in the Humanities and Creative Arts panel. September 2008 it was announced that he had been appointed to the Prime Minister's Science, Engineering and Innovation Council (PMSEIC). This makes Professor Turner the only Humanities scholar on the Council, and only the second since the Council's inception (as the Prime Minister's Science Council) in 1989.

He has played an active role in recent debates on the teaching of English within the Australian school system. While he no longer takes undergraduate classes, he continues to provide research supervision to postgraduate students enrolled at the University.

Graeme’s most recent publications include Ending the Affair: the decline of television current affairs in Australia (UNSW Press, 2005), and (with Stuart Cunningham) the second edition of The Media and Communications in Australia (Allen & Unwin, 2006). Other recent publications include Understanding Celebrity (Sage, 2004) and The Film Cultures Reader (Routledge, 2002), and articles in the journals Cultural Politics and the International Journal of Cultural Studies.

Email: graeme.turner@uq.edu.au  Phone: 07 3365 7183