I’m working on my Research Opportunity & Performance Evidence (ROPE) section for future grant applications to the Australian Research Council. Here’s my summary of my pre-doctoral research (1994-2011):
Pre-Doctoral
Research:
My freelance journalism with original research (1994-2004) and pre-doctoral
research (1999-2011) focused on subculture analysis, understanding how global
risk events affected journalists, digital culture and internet sociology, and
theory-testing in journalism and disruptive innovation. As a freelance
journalist I wrote for 21C, REVelation, Marketing, Desktop, Internet.au and Artbyte—including interviews with J.G. Ballard, Noam Chomsky, Jack
Sarfatti, Robert Anton Wilson, and Terence McKenna. I also edited and wrote for
the United States-based former subculture website Disinformation (1998-2008)
for which I covered the September 11 terrorist attacks, and the 2000 and 2004
United States elections. I presented on this original research to the This Is
Not Art (1999-2004) and Straight Out of Brisbane (2002) youth culture
festivals.
I undertook Masters studies at Swinburne
University in strategic foresight (2002-04) and at Monash University in
counter-terrorism studies (2005-06) which provided research mentoring
opportunities with Professor Richard Slaughter, Dr Joseph Voros, Dr Peter
Hayward, Associate Professor Pete Lentini, Dr David Wright-Neville, and Mr Philip
Gregory. I contributed Masters essays to several of Professor Slaughter’s
projects including The Knowledge Base of
Futures Studies: Professional Edition (2005) which have since been cited
and re-published in book and peer reviewed CD-ROM anthologies. My 2006 MA
mini-thesis ‘Fearful Asymmetries: Herman Kahn’s Nuclear Threat Models and the
DPRK’s Nuclear Weapons Program’ with Dr Andrew Butfoy developed an escalation
model using Kahn’s insights to understand North Korea’s nuclear missile development
and testing.