Kate Holland
Biography
Dr Kate Holland is a Research Fellow with the ‘Australian Health News Research Collaboration’, a NHMRC Capacity Building project between the Universities of Sydney, Canberra and Melbourne http://sydney.edu.au/medicine/public-health/AHNRC/
Kate’s research interests include media representations of health and risk, media audiences, health communication, health activism and social movements, postpsychiatry, disability studies and research ethics.
Kate graduated with a PhD in Communication from the University of Canberra in 2008. She has experience in qualitative research in media and communication studies and has researched and published in the areas of media reporting and audience understandings of health and social issues including swine flu, obesity, suicide and mental illness. Kate is co-chair of the Health, Communication and Change working group of the International Association for Media and Communication Research.
Publications
Journal articles
Holland, K. (forthcoming). The unintended consequences of campaigns designed to challenge stigmatising representations of mental illness in the media, Social Semiotics.
Dickins, M., Thomas, S., King, B., Lewis, S. & 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, published online 2 August.
Fogarty, A., Holland, K., Imison, M., Blood, R.W., Chapman, S. & 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 & Castle, D. (2011) ‘Our girth is plain to see’: An analysis of newspaper coverage of Australia’s Future ‘Fat Bomb’. Health, Risk & Society 13(1), 31-46.
McKay, F., Thomas, S., Holland, K., Blood, R.W. & 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. & 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. & 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. & 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. & 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. & 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
Dickins, M., Thomas, S.L. & Holland, K. (2010). Australian media’s use of Facebook postings to report events of national interest. Record of the Communications Policy & Research Forum. Network Insight Pty Ltd.
Holland, K. & 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 Communications Association Annual Conference, Canberra July 7-9.
Holland, K., Blood, R.W., Thomas, S & Lewis, S. (2010). ‘That’s not reality for me’: Australian audiences respond to The Biggest Loser. Refereed paper presented to the 60th annual conference, International Communication Association, Singapore, June.
Blood, R.W., Holland, K., Thomas, K., Lewis, S. & Karunaratne, A. (2010). On being ‘fat’: Obese and overweight Australians respond to news depictions of obesity and overweight. Refereed paper presented to the 60th annual conference, International Communication Association, Singapore, June.
Holland, K. Blood, R. W. Thomas, S., Karunaratne, A., 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. Refereed paper to be presented at the Communication Policy and Research Forum, University of Technology, Sydney, November 19-20.
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 Communications Association Annual Conference, Brisbane, July 8-10.
Holland, K. & Blood, R.W. (2009). Tensions between activism and advocacy in the mental health field: identifying some tactical differences. Refereed paper presented to the Health Communication Division of the International Communication Association annual conference, Chicago, May 21-25.
Blood, R. W., Dare, A., McCallum, K., Holland, K. & Pirkis, J. (2008). Enduring and competing news frames: Australian newspaper coverage of the deaths by suicides of two Melbourne girls. Refereed paper presented to the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association annual conference, Auckland, July.
Blood, R.W., Holland, K. & Pirkis, J. (2007). Radio madness: Voices of mental illness and the presentation of self on Australian commercial talkback radio. Refereed paper presented, International Communication Association, San Francisco, May.
Holland, K., Blood, R. W., Pirkis, J. & Martin, G. (2005). Depression, medication, acne and suicide: A case study in the reporting and portrayal of suicide in Australia’s metropolitan press. Referred paper presented to the Journalism Education Association conference, Griffith University.
Monographs and reports
McCallum, K. & 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.
Holland, K. & 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. (2008). Carers’ perspectives on caring: A qualitative analysis of open-ended responses to the Carer Health and Wellbeing Index survey. Report for Carers Australia.
Pirkis, J., Blood, R.W., Dare, A. & Holland, K. (2008). The media monitoring project: Changes in media reporting of suicide and mental health and illness in Australia 2000/01 – 2006/07. Canberra: Commonwealth Department of Health & Ageing.