Dr Lisa Milner completed her PhD at the University of Wollongong, and has been teaching at SCU since 2004, in the School of Arts and Social Sciences. Her research interests are wide-ranging: in 2011, when she accepted an ongoing position with the university, she was appointed to four research centres. She is a Research Fellow at the National Film and Sound Archives, and a member of the Centre for Gambling Education and Research at SCU, the Centre for Sustainable Organisations and Work at RMIT University, and the international research project ‘In the Same Boat? Shipbuilding and ship repair workers: a global labour history (1950-2010)’, based at the International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam. Originally a filmmaker, she teaches mainly into the Media Program. Her current research projects include the representation of gambling in Australian media, screen representations of Australian work, politics and citizenship, labour history biography, segregated cinemas, community organisations and management, union movements and film, and community media and its discontents.
Journal articles
From bananas to biryani: the creation of Woolgoolga Curryfest as an expression of community (with Mandy Hughes), Locale (2012)
Since the 1940s, a Punjabi Sikh subculture has been a part of the community of...
Hands-on learning, long-distance delivery: teaching media to dispersed tertiary students: a case study (with Grayson Cooke), Screen Education (2012)
In 2009, staff at Southern Cross University redeveloped a first-year university media producation unit to...
Laying your cards on the table: representations of gambling in the media (with Elaine Nuske), Australian Journal of Communication (2012)
The media saturates our 21st-century societies, helping to form our identities and our understanding of...
Moving forward with an action plan: political campaigning on the big screen, Studies in Australasian Cinema (2012)
For decades, the media has been increasingly central to the conduct of elections. Politicians have...
Books
Fighting films: a history of the Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit, School of Arts and Social Sciences Papers (2003)
The Waterside Workers’ Federation Film Unit operated in Sydney from 1953 to 1958, making films...
Book chapters
The Waterside Workers’ Cultural Committee, Radical Sydney : places, portraits and unruly episodes (2010)
The Waterside Workers Federation Film Unit, The Oxford companion to Australian film (1999)
One of the few trade union film groups in Australia, this Sydney based unit was...
Radio broadcasts
Theses
'We film the facts': the Waterside Workers' Federation film unit, 1953 – 1958, PhD thesis, University of Wollongong, Wollongong, NSW (2000)
This thesis explores the history of the Waterside Workers' Federation Film Unit. Comprising three filmmakers,...
Conference publications
Framing the unions: the changing images of unionists on screen, Labour history and its people: papers from the twelfth National Labour History Conference (2011)
Amongst the oldest holdings of the National Film and Sound Archives is a newsreel segment...
Labour biography on screen: the case of Freda Brown (with Rosemary Webb), Labour history and its people: papers from the twelfth National Labour History Conference (2011)
The written biographies and memoirs of activists and leaders have long been core components of...
Kenny and Australian cinema in the Howard era, Remapping cinema, remaking history: XIVth Biennial Conference of the Film and History Association of Australia and New Zealand. Conference Proceedings. Volume Two: Selected Full Refereed Papers (2009)
The “battler” figure has been a popular and enduring character in the Australian cultural imagination,...
Commos and ratbags: left-wing images of urban Australia, Images of the Urban: conference proceedings (1998)
The cultural construction of the past in Australia has a variety of sources. There are...