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Holland, Dr. Kate

kate holland

Senior Research Fellow, Communication
Faculty of Arts & Design
Bldg, Floor & Room: 9, B16
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Kate.Holland@canberra.edu.au

Biography

Kate Holland is a Senior Research Fellow in Communication and Media Studies. She is the recipient of an ARC Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE140100100 (2014-2017) for the project ‘Mediating Mental Health: An Integrated Approach to Investigating Media and Social Actors’. Prior to this she held Postdoctoral Fellowships with the News & Media Research Centre and with 'The Australian Health News Research Collaboration', a collaborative grant between the Universities of Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne, funded by a NHMRC Capacity Building Grant in public health.

Kate was the co-chair of the Health Communication and Change working group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research (IAMCR) 2010-2015 and is currently Vice-Chair. She is a member of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) and has coordinated the Health stream of its annual conference.

Her work has been published in journals such as Journalism Studies, Journalism, Social Semiotics, Health, Risk & Society, Journal of Sociology, Journal of Risk Research, Qualitative Health Researchand Qualitative Inquiry. Kate has researched media representations and public understandings of mental health issues, alcohol and pregnancy, swine flu and obesity. Her research interests also include critical/cultural studies perspectives on health communication, biocommunicability, health activism and resistance, and research ethics review.

Areas of Teaching

  • Research only. Available for supervising Honours and HDR students.

Research Interests

  • News media reporting;
  • Public reception of health and risk issues,
  • Health communication;
  • Health activism and social movements;
  • Postpsychiatry, Mad Studies and research ethics.

Qualifications Obtained

  • PhD (Communication),
  • B Comn (Hons) [University of Canberra]

Research Profiles

ORCID ID: orcid.org/0000-0003-3873-5769
ResearchGate: www.researchgate.net/profile/Kate_Holland3
Academia.edu: canberra.academia.edu/KateHolland

Recent Publications

Book Chapter

  • Holland, K. (2016). Enriching ethics review processes in the spirit of participatory dialogue. In Hamilton, A & van den Hoonaard, W.C. (Eds), The Ethics Rupture. University of Toronto Press, 353-375.

Journal Articles

  • Holland, K. (2018). Lay theories and criticisms of mental health news: Elaborating the concept of biocommuncability. Disability & Society. https://doi.org/10.1080/09687599.2018.1487831
  • Easteal, P., Holland, K., Dunne Breen, M., Vaughan, C., and Sutherland, G. (2018). Australian media messages: Critical discourse analysis of two intimate homicides involving domestic violence. Violence Against Women. https://doi.org/10.1177/1077801218780364
  • McCallum, K., & Holland, K. (2018). ‘To drink or not to drink’: Media framing of evidence and debate about alcohol consumption in pregnancy. Critical Public Health 28(4), 412-423.
  • Holland, K. (2017). Digital media and models of biocommunicability in health journalism: Insights from the production and reception of mental health news. Australian Journalism Review 39(2), 67-77.
  • Holland, K., Dickson, A., & Dickson, A. (2017). ‘To the horror of experts’: Reading beneath scholarship on pro-ana online communities. Critical Public Health. http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/09581596.2017.1382681
  • Holland, K. (2017). Making mental health news: Australian journalists’ views on news values, sources and reporting challenges. Journalism Studies. DOI: 10.1080/1461670X.2017.1304826
  • Dunne Breen, M., Easteal, P., Holland, K., Sutherland, G., and Vaughan, C. (2017). Exploring Australian journalism practices in reporting rape: the pitiful predator and the silent victim. Discourse & Communication. 11(3), 241-258
  • Holland, K. (2016). Biocommunicability and the politics of mental health: an analysis of responses to the ABC’s ‘Mental As’ campaign. Communication Research & Practice. 3(2), 176-193.
  • Sutherland, G., McCormack, A., Easteal, P., Holland, K., and Pirkis, J. (2016). Guidelines for reporting on violence against women in the news media. Australian Journalism Review, 38(1), 5-17.
  • Holland, K., McCallum, K., and Walton, A. (2016). 'I'm not clear on what the risk is': Women's reflexive negotiations of uncertainty about alcohol during pregnancy. Health, Risk & Society. DOI:10.1080/13698575.2016.1166186
  • Dickson, A., and Holland, K. (2016). Hysterical inquiry and autoethnography: A Lacanian alternative to institutionalised ethical commandments. Current Sociology. DOI: 10.1177/0011392115623603
  • Couch, D., Thomas, S.L., Lewis, S., Blood, R.W., Holland, K., and Komesaroff, P. (2016). Obese people's perceptions of the thin ideal. Social Science & Medicine, 148, 60-70. Citations: 2.
  • Bourk, M., Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2015). 'Because we are in an emergency situation, we are unable to meet with you': A crisis of a crisis commons during the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake. MediaNZ, 15(2), 30-49.
  • Easteal, P., Bartels, L., Nelson, N., and Holland, K. (2015). How are women who kill portrayed in newspaper media? Connections with social values and the legal system. Women's Studies International Forum, 51, 31-41.
  • Easteal, P., Holland, K., and Judd, K, (2015). Enduring themes and silences in media portrayals of violence against women. Women's Studies International Forum 48, 103-113.
  • Holland, K., Blood, R.W. & Thomas, S.L. (2015). Viewing The Biggest Loser: Modes of Reception and Reflexivity among Obese People. Social Semiotics, 25(1), 16-32.
  • Bourk, M. & Holland, K. (2014). From Silos to Flows: Spatial metaphor and communication responses to the Christchurch Earthquakes. Australian Journal of Emergency Management 29 (2), 35-41.
  • Holland, K., Sweet, M., Blood, R.W., and Fogarty, A. (2014). 'A legacy of the swine flu global pandemic: journalists, expert sources, and conflicts of interest'. Journalism, 15(1), 53-71.
  • Holland, K. Blood, R.W., Thomas, S., and Lewis, S. (2013). Challenging stereotypes and legitimating fat: An analysis of obese people's views on news media reporting guidelines and promoting body diversity. Journal of Sociology. Online first 8 March 2013: DOI: 10.1177/1440783313480395.
  • Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2013). 'Public responses and reflexivity during the swine flu pandemic in Australia'. Journalism Studies, 14(4), 523-538.
  • Sweet, M., Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2012). Learning from journalists' experiences of the H1N1 pandemic. Medical Journal of Australia 197(10), 544-545.
  • Holland, K., Blood, R.W., Imison, M., Chapman, S., and Fogarty, A. (2012). Risk, expert uncertainty and Australian news media: Public and private faces of expert opinion during the 2009 swine flu pandemic. Journal of Risk Research, 15(6), 657-671.
  • Holland, K. (2012). The unintended consequences of campaigns designed to challenge stigmatising representations of mental illness in the media. Social Semiotics, 22(3), 217-236.
  • Dickins, M., Thomas, S., King, B., Lewis, S., and Holland, K. (2011). The role of the fatosphere in fat adults' responses to obesity stigma: A model of empowerment without a focus on weight loss. Qualitative Health Research, 21(12), 1679-1691.
  • Fogarty, A., Holland, K., Imison, M., Blood, R.W., Chapman, S., and Holding, S. (2011). Communicating uncertainty: how Australian television reported H1N1 risk in 2009: a content analysis. BMC Public Health, 11, 181.
  • Holland, K., Blood, R.W., Thomas, S., Lewis, S., Komesaroff, P., and Castle, D. (2011). 'Our girth is plain to see': An analysis of newspaper coverage of Australia's Future 'Fat Bomb'. Health, Risk and Society 13(1), 31-46.
  • McKay, F., Thomas, S., Holland, K., Blood, R.W., and Kneebone, S. (2011). 'AIDS Assassins': Australian media's portrayal of HIV positive refugees who deliberately infect others. Journal of Immigrant and Refugee Studies, 9(1), 20-37.
  • McCallum, K., and Holland, K. (2010). Indigenous and multicultural discourses in Australian news media reporting. Australian Journalism Review, 32(2), 5-18.
  • Holland, K., Blood, R. W., Pirkis, J., and Dare, A. (2009). Postpsychiatry in the Australian media: The 'vulnerable' talk back. Asia Pacific Media Educator, 19, 143-157.
  • Holland, K. (2007). The epistemological bias of ethics review: Constraining mental health research. Qualitative Inquiry, 13(6), 895-913.
  • Blood, R. W., Pirkis, J., and Holland, K. (2007). Media reporting of suicide methods: An Australian perspective. Crisis, 28 (Suppl. 1), 64-69.
  • Blood, R. W., McCallum, K., Pirkis, J., Martin, G., Holland, K., and Williams, J. (2005). Schizophrenia in the Australian press: News frames and metaphors in representing mental health to lay publics. Australian Journalism Review, 27(2), 7-23.
    Blood, R. W., and Holland, K. (2004). Risky news, madness and public crisis: A case study of the reporting and portrayal of mental health and illness in the Australian press. Journalism, 5(3), 323-342.

Refereed Conference Papers

  • Holland, K. (2013). Celebrating the National Disability Insurance Scheme?: Insights from news media and disability advocates. In J. Freeman (Ed.) Proceedings of the Emerging Issues in Communication Research and Policy Conference, 2013 - Refereed Papers. Canberra: News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra.
  • Holland, K., and Pearson, D. (2013). Communicating food policy issues: Media and the politics of sustainability. In J. Freeman (Ed.) Proceedings of the Emerging Issues in Communication Research and Policy Conference, 2013 - Refereed Papers. Canberra: News & Media Research Centre, University of Canberra.
  • Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2012). Exploring the concept of 'biocommunicability' through an analysis of journalists' talk about reporting the 2009 swine flu pandemic. In C. Anyanwu, K. Green and J. Sykes (Eds), Communicating Change and Changing Communication: Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, Adelaide, July
  • Dickins, M., Thomas, S.L., and Holland, K. (2010). Australian media's use of Facebook postings to report events of national interest. Record of the Communications Policy and Research Forum. Network Insight Pty Ltd.
  • Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2010). Not just another flu? The framing of swine flu in the Australian Press. In K. McCallum (Ed.), Media, Democracy and Change: Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, Canberra, July.
  • Holland, K., Blood, R.W., Thomas, S., and Lewis, S. (2010). 'That's not reality for me': Australian audiences respond to The Biggest Loser. Refereed paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Singapore, June.
  • Blood, R.W., Holland, K., Thomas, K., Lewis, S., and Karunaratne, A. (2010). On being 'fat': Obese and overweight Australians respond to news depictions of obesity and overweight. Refereed paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Singapore, June.
  • Holland, K., Blood, R. W. Thomas, S., Karunaratne, A., and Lewis, S. (2009). Consuming children: an analysis of press coverage of the claims and counterclaims of advocacy and industry groups in relation to a proposed ban on junk food advertising. Record of the Communications Policy and Research Forum. Network Insight Pty Ltd.
  • Holland, K. (2009). Suicide and the media: identifying some blind spots. In T. Flew (Ed.) Communication, Creativity and Global Citizenship: Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, Brisbane, July.
  • Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2009). Tensions between activism and advocacy in the mental health field: identifying some tactical differences. Refereed paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, Chicago, May.
  • Blood, R. W., Dare, A., McCallum, K., Holland, K., and Pirkis, J. (2008). Enduring and competing news frames: Australian newspaper coverage of the deaths by suicides of two Melbourne girls. In E. Tilley (Ed.) Power and Place: Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Annual Conference, Wellington, July.
  • Blood, R.W., Holland, K., and Pirkis, J. (2007). Radio madness: Voices of mental illness and the presentation of self on Australian commercial talkback radio. Refereed paper presented at the International Communication Association conference, San Francisco, May.
  • Holland, K., Blood, R. W., Pirkis, J., and Martin, G. (2005). Depression, medication, acne and suicide: A case study in the reporting and portrayal of suicide in Australia's metropolitan press. Refereed paper presented at the Journalism Education Association conference, Griffith University.

Monographs

  • Sutherland, G., McCormack, A., Pirkis, J., Vaughan, C., Dunne-Breen, M., Easteal, P., & Holland, K. (2016). Media representations of violence against women and their children: Final report (ANROWS Horizons, 03/2016). Sydney: ANROWS.
  • Sutherland, G., McCormack, A., Pirkis, J., Easteal, P., Holland, K., & Vaughan, C. (2015). Media representations of violence against women and their children: State of knowledge paper. Melbourne: ANROWS & Our Watch.
  • Holland, K., McCallum, K., and Blood, R.W. (2015). Conversations about Alcohol and Pregnancy. Canberra: Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education.
  • McCallum, K., and Holland, K. (2009). Mediating the 'uneasy conversation': Reporting and engaging with Indigenous and multicultural issues in Australia. Case study for the Reporting Diversity Project for the Department of Immigration and Citizenship.
  • Pirkis, J., Blood, R.W., Dare, A., and Holland, K. (2008). The Media Monitoring Project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental illness in Australia: 2000/01-2006/07. Commonwealth Department of Health and Ageing, Canberra.
  • Blood, R.W., Holland, K., Pirkis, J., and Dare, A. (2008). Qualitative analyses of selected Australian news media coverage of depression 2006-2007. A report for beyondblue, the National Depression Initiative. News Research Group, University of Canberra.
  • Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2008). Don't wait: Carers say listen and act now. A report on the Carers Virtual 2020 summit. Carers Australia, Canberra.
  • Holland, K., and Blood, R.W. (2008). Carers' perspectives on caring: A qualitative analysis of open-ended responses to the Carer Health and Wellbeing Index survey. Report for Carers Australia.

Reference Works

  • Holland, K. (2014). Health and Medical Reporting. In Griffen-Foley, B. (ed.), A Companion to the Australian Media (pp. 201-203). Australian Scholarly Publishing: Melbourne, Victoria.

Grants

  • 2015 'Media representations of violence against women and their children'. Funding from ANROWS (Australia's National Research Organisation for Women's Safety) and Our Watch [with G. Sutherland, J. Pirkis & C. Vaughan, University of Melbourne & P. Easteal, UC]. Total funding: $150,000. Funding to UC: $16,035.
  • 2014-2016 'Mediating Mental Health: An Integrated Approach to Investigating Media and Social Actors', Australian Research Council Discovery Early Career Researcher Award DE140100100, $375,289.
  • 2014 - 'Conversations about Alcohol and Pregnancy: Investigating Media Portrayals and Women's Experiences', Foundation for Alcohol Research and Education, $19,537.60 (with K. McCallum & R.W. Blood, UC).
  • 2013 – 'Examining the "Crisis Commons" during the 2011 Christchurch Earthquake', Emergency Media and Public Affairs, $5000 (with M. Bourk, Uni of Otago & R.W Blood, UC).
  • 2012 – Faculty of Arts and Design Research Cluster Project Funding - 'Health news across different media platforms: a case study in how actors are positioned and addressed and with what potential consequences', $3,000.
  • 2009 - NHMRC project grant (#628010) 'Public and media understandings of A/H1N1 (swine flu) within a risk communication environment' [Associate Investigator], $107,340.
  • 2008 - Consultancy for Carers Australia – Qualitative analysis of comments to the Carers Australia Virtual 2020 Summit [2nd CI], $13,598.
  • 2008 - Consultancy for Carers Australia – Qualitative analysis of over 500 responses to the open-ended question in the Carer Health and Wellbeing Index Survey 2007 [2nd CI], $3,500.

Awards

  • 2014 – Vice Chancellor's Excellence Awards Early Career Researchers, Humanities and Creative Arts.
  • 2009 - Recipient of the Christopher Newell Award for Best Paper dealing with Disability/Equity/Social Justice and Communication, Australian and New Zealand Communication Association conference, Brisbane.
  • 2008 - Recipient (as co-author) of the Referees' Choice award at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association conference, Auckland.
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