Teaching and Research Staff

Dr David Cameron

BA Comm (Journalism), MA (Hon), Grad Cert, PhD

David Cameron is a Senior Lecturer in Communication. He currently teaches on-campus and online subjects in media production and journalism.

David’s professional background includes broadcast and online media production. He has worked as a program and production coordinator in the community radio sector and contributed to award-winning sports coverage, spoken word content, and overall station programming. As senior newsroom editor he helped establish National Radio News in 1997, a service that is still providing news coverage to Australia’s community radio stations.

David’s research and publication record spans a number of communication fields. He has explored the impact of new technologies on communication practice and education. His PhD examined shared conventions between educational drama and game-based learning. David’s recent research and publication has examined ways in which live performance and media arts interact with digital cultures to create new forms of multimodal and transmedia storytelling.

David currently teaches undergraduate students from all Communication degrees in the core subjects COM127 Introduction to Media Production and COM112 Digital Media.

David also teaches postgraduate subjects in journalism, and is supervising Masters students’ research projects.

David has an extensive background in development and innovation in university teaching. He was a Deputy Director in the University of Newcastle’s Centre for Teaching and Learning, and a Director in CSU’s Division of Learning and Teaching. In these roles he led teams responsible for designing and delivering high quality learning resources and experiences for students.

David’s research explores the impact of digital networked technology across a number of fields within the communication discipline. He is interested in connecting theoretical and practical understandings of the ways in which technology acts as a transformative agent in these fields, working in innovative and interdisciplinary methodologies drawn from communication studies, drama, education, digital ethnography, and game studies.

David's general research themes include:

Hybrid / intermedial spaces for live & mediated performance
Emergent cultural practices in online, social, and mobile media forms
Play and creativity
Digital storytelling
Learning technologies and new media
Digital humanities and methodological innovation

David has participated in and led funded research projects, including:

Co-Investigator, University of Newcastle Higher Education Participation Program research project (2016). Faculty of Business and Law research into retention and success for first-in-family and low socio-economic status students through blended learning.
Chief Investigator, Australian Office of Learning and Teaching extension grant (2015). Applied research to implement and evaluate a staff development program at the University of Newcastle based on innovative use of online technology.
Visiting Fellow, London Knowledge Lab, University College London (2014). Funded by University of Newcastle.
Chief Investigator, Australian Research Council Linkage Project (2007 - 2011). Joint project between CSU and the Australian Defence Simulation Office explored digital game-based and online role-based simulation tools for use in crisis management simulations and training by Australian Defence Force public affairs personnel.

David is a member of:

Association of Internet Researchers (AoIR)
Australasian Council on Open, Distance and e-Learning (ACODE)
Australasian Society for Computers in Learning in Tertiary Education (ASCILITE)
Australian & New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA)
Higher Education Research and Development Society of Australasia (HERDSA)
Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia (JERAA)
Media & Entertainment Arts Alliance (MEAA)

David is a qualified LEGO Serious Play facilitator.

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