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Mia Lindgren

Associate Dean Research Performance

College Office - CALE

Orcid identifier0000-0002-4937-6194
  • Associate Dean Research Performance
    College Office - CALE
  • 03 6226 7847 (Work)
  • College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education, College Office - CALE, 547 Humanities, Sandy Bay Campus, TAS

BIO

Professor Lindgren is Associate Dean Research Performance and Professor of Media in the College of Arts, Law and Education. Her areas of research expertise are podcasting, radio, journalism, and practice-related research methods. Mia's research examines podcast practice, storytelling, and aesthetics, with attention to the intersection with journalism and public health. Her interdisciplinary research has been funded by five national competitive grants (ARC and NHMRC).

She is one of a growing number of ‘pracademics’ in Australia and internationally and has forged a career spanning both practice-led and traditional scholarship in media and communication studies, with focus on journalism, radio, and podcasting. Mia grew up in the north of Sweden. She has worked as a broadcast journalist with the Swedish Broadcasting Cooperating and radio documentary producer with ABC Radio National.

Career summary Qualifications PhD, Murdoch University, Western Australia, 2011, a practice-led project Journalism as Research – Developing radio documentary theory from practice, comprising a commissioned radio documentary broadcast on ABC Radio National.

Memberships:
-Professional practice International Editorial board, Scientific Committee and international research association member
-Editorial Board member: Media & Communication, Netherland, open access (Q2, Scimago)
-Editorial Board member: Podcast Studies series, Bloomsbury, UK
-Scientific Committee member: Radiofonias - Journal of Sound Media Studies (editor: Marcelo Kischinhevsky, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ), Brazil)
-Scientific Committee member: Radio Conference: A Transnational forum
-Steering Group member: Podcast Studies - Podacademics International Network, https://podcaststudies.org/a-homepage-section/
-International Co-chair International Association of Media and Communication Research (IAMCR)
-Working Group Music, Audio, Radio and Sound MARS

Administrative expertise: In addition to her current leadership role, Mia Lindgren has held a range of administrative positions. She is an experienced academic leader with extensive track record as change-maker, people leader of large academic units and member of national/international review boards:
-Dean of Social Sciences, Media, Film and Education, at Swinburne University of Technology, Melbourne (2019 – 2022)
-Founding Head of the Monash School of Media, Film and Journalism (MFJ); led transformational change in the Faculty of Arts by establishing the largest media school in Australia (2014 – 2018).
-Conceptualised and led the development of the Monash Media Lab, a $3 million state-of-the-art media production facility at Caulfield campus, Melbourne.
-International and national curriculum review chair and panel member (Auckland University of Technology; Danish School of Journalism; Utrecht University of Applied Science, Netherlands; Queensland University of Technology; Edith Cowen University, Western Australia; Griffith University, Queensland).

DEGREES

  • PhD
    Murdoch University, Perth, Australia2011

LANGUAGES

  • Swedish
  • Norwegian

SCHOOL AND PORTFOLIO

  • College Office - College of Arts, Law and Education

FIELD OF RESEARCH