Stuart Cunningham

Stuart Cunningham

Stuart Cunningham is the Centre Director and Leader of Program 1: Crisis in Innovation. He is Professor of Media and Communications, Queensland University of Technology and holds a ministerial appointment to the Library Board of Queensland and is an elected member of the Council for Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS). He was President of the Council of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences (CHASS), 2006-8, an appointed member of the Australian Research Council’s College of Experts 2005-2007, and Chair of the Humanities and Creative Arts Panel of that College, 2007; Treasurer and Executive Member of Council, Australian Academy of the Humanities, 2002-6; and Node Convenor, Cultural Technologies, for the ARC Cultural Research Network, 2004-6. He was Foundation Chair of QPIX, Queensland’s Screen Resource Centre, 1997-2005 and a Commissioner of the Australian Film Commission, 1992-98. He received the Centenary Medal in 2003 for services to the humanities in Australia.

He is well known for his contributions to media, communications and cultural studies and to their relevance to industry practice and government policy. A key figure in cultural policy studies and creative industries, he wrote Featuring Australia (1991), a study of the career of pioneering Australian filmmaker Charles Chauvel, and Framing Culture (1992), an influential critique of the limits of cultural studies as applied to cultural policy. With Toby Miller, he wrote Contemporary Australian Television (1993). He co-wrote or co-edited a number of studies of the global dimensions of audiovisual culture with John Sinclair and Elizabeth Jacka: New Patterns in Global Television (1996), Australian Television and International Mediascapes (1996), and Floating Lives: The Media and Asian Diasporas (2001). He co-edited two textbooks with Graeme Turner, The Australian TV Book (2001) and The Media and Communications in Australia (2006); the second is about to go to its fifth edition in 2009 and is the standard text in the field in Australia. His most recent work includes What Price a Creative Economy? (Platform Papers 2006) and In the Vernacular: A Generation of Cultural Criticism and Controversy, University of Queensland Press, 2008.

He has co-authored several major reports for bodies such as the National Endowment for Science, Technology and the Arts (NESTA - UK) and the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD - Geneva) and has published over 70 book chapters and over 90 journal articles.

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