PhD, MProfComm, MLitt, BA Grad Dip Ed, ATCL Profile Virginia is currently lecturing in the School of Policing Studies in Goulburn. In her doctoral degree she analysed international drug trafficking and terrorism with a focus on how media depictions frame and shape public perceptions and responses. Virginia has lectured diverse student cohorts in media studies, business, communications and marketing. Prior to her academic career, she was a finance journalist at The Sydney Morning Herald and a money market reporter at Australian Associated Press. She was an economics journalist and broadcaster at the Australian Broadcasting Corporation for over 18 years and produced and presented a popular business program on Radio National. She has recently published an academic book analysing the role and future path of the ABC based on in depth interviews and extensive research and has also published an academic article on international food security and the Australian beef industry. Publications Small, V. (2021). Strangling Aunty: Perilous Times for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation. Palgrave Macmillan. https://link.springer.com/book/10.1007/978-981-16-0776-9 Small, V., Warn, J. (2020). Impacts on food policy from traditional and social media framing of moral outrage and cultural stereotypes. Agric Hum Values 37, 295–309 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10460-019-09983-6 Hutchinson, M., Small, V., Torrisi, D., Webster, S. (2020). Worthy of our Forefathers: A History of the Scots College, Sydney. (Ed. G. Dyer). Scots College. ISBN: 0648878120, 9780648878124. https://scotsoldboys.tsc.nsw.edu.au/merchandise/historybook/ Small, V. (2016). Shining a light on mental illness. Australian Catholics. 26 January 2016. Small, V. (2015). Arrowsmith - training students with dyslexia through repetition. Education HQ. April 10, 2015. http://au.educationhq.com/news/28930/arrowsmith-training-students-withdyslexia-throughrepetition/ Small, V. (2014) “Making peace: Unpacking the conflict and controversy of Wikileaks to teach understandings of peace journalism.” Paper presented to: Excellence in Education: Innovation and Change Conference. Paris, France. July 7-10.
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Dr Virginia Small
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Small, V. (2012). “A Different Kind of Success”. Australian Catholics. Jesuit Publications. http://www.australiancatholics.com.au/content/view/282/