Dr Kath Albury

Overview

Kath’s research and professional practice focuses on gender and sexuality in media and popular culture. In 2004-2005 Kath was a member of the 'Playing By the Rules' project, commissioned by the National Rugby League. As Research Co-ordinator, Kath was responsible for researching, devising and delivering educational workshops for professional Rugby League players. The project won a NSW Premier's Violence Against Women Prevention Award in 2005. Her postdoctoral fellowship (ARC LP LP0776649) a collaboration between UNSW, the National Rugby League and the NSW Rape Crisis Centre, expanded and extended this work.

In 2008, Kath was commissioned to write the ‘Media and Sexuality' module, for an international short course on Critical Sexuality Theory and Research Methodologies, which was funded by the Ford Foundation and developed by the Australian Research Centre in Sex, Health and Society (ARCSHS) in conjunction with the International Association for the Study of Sexuality, Culture and Society (IASSCS). The course modules are available for non-commercial use under a Creative Commons licence at http://www.sexualitystudies.net/short-course.

Since 1996 Kath has worked with the fabulous Vanessa Wagner (Tobin Saunders) as sexual health educator/entertainer/facilitator, in the guise of her alter ego 'Nurse Nancy’. She has facilitated forums for organisations including the AIDS Treatment Project Australia, and National Association of People with AIDS, and received a UNSW Staff Excellence Award for Excellence in Community Engagement in 2010.

Research Summary

Enterprise Connect Researcher in Business Grant 2010-2011 ‘Mining for a Safer Masculinity’, partnership with Dr Dean Laplonge, Factive Cultural Research Consultancy, WA.

ARC Linkage Grant 2006-2008 'Safer Sex Beliefs and Practices in Multi-Partner Heterosexuals' Research Partnership with the Family Planning Association of NSW Co-Chief Investigator with Clifton Evers and Catharine Lumby (University of NSW)

ARC Discovery Grant 2006 –2011 'The Well-Rounded Person: The role of sport
in shaping Physical, Emotional and Social Development' Co-Chief Investigator with Catharine Lumby, Jenny O'Dea and Elspeth Probyn (University of Sydney)

ARC Discovery Grant 2001-03 'Understanding Pornography in Australia'
Co-Chief Investigator with Catharine Lumby and Alan McKee (Queensland University of Technology)

Teaching

Kath co-ordinates the core subject ‘Understanding Contemporary Media’ for the Masters in Journalism and Communication.

She is currently co-supervising two PhD projects at the JMRC, and is joint supervisor for a Doctor of Creative Arts in the School of English, Media and Performing Arts.

Publications

Books

Alan McKee, Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby. The Porn Report.
Melbourne: University of Melbourne Press. 2008

Kath Albury. Yes Means Yes: getting explicit about heterosex. St Leonards: Allen & Unwin. 2002

Book Chapters

Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby. ‘Sport, Sex and Politics.’ in The Media and Communications in Australia (3rd edition) , edited by Stuart Cunningham and Graeme Turner, St Leonards: Allen & Unwin, 2010

Kath Albury. 'Pornography.' in Perspectives in Human Sexuality, edited by Gail Hawkes and John Scott, Melbourne: Oxford University Press, 2004

Kath Albury. 'The Ethics of Porn on the Net.' in Remote Control: New Media, New Ethics, edited by Catharine Lumby and Elspeth Probyn. Melbourne: Cambridge University Press, 2003

Peer-Reviewed Articles in Academic Journals

Kath Albury, Moira Carmody, Clifton Evers, Catharine Lumby. ‘Playing by the rules: Researching, teaching and learning sexual ethics with young men in the Australian National Rugby League.’ Sex Education 11: 3, August 2011.

Catharine Lumby and Kath Albury. ‘Too much? Too young? The sexualisation of children debate in Australia’. Media International Australia No 135, May (2010). Special issue on ‘Children, Young People, Sexuality and the Media’., edited by Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby.

McKee, Alan Albury, Kath, Dunne, Michael, Grieshaber, Sue, Hartley, John, Lumby, Catharine and Mathews, Ben. 'Healthy Sexual Development: A Multidisciplinary Framework for Research ', International Journal of Sexual Health, 22: 1 (2010): 14 – 19

Kath Albury. ‘Reading Porn Reparatively’, Sexualities, 12 (2009): 647-653

Catharine Lumby and Kath Albury. 'Homer versus Homer: Digital media, literacy and child protection'. Media International Australia, incorporating Culture and Policy, No 128, August 2008

Kath Albury. 'Full-body-mega-kundalinigasm: sacred sex and sexual politics' Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies, 15 (2) 2001

Kath Albury. 'Spaceship Triple J: making the national youth network' Media International Australia (incorporating Culture and Policy) No 91, May 1999

Kath Albury. 'Instant Sexpert: academic expertise and media experiences'
Media International Australia (incorporating Culture and Policy) No 92, August 1999

Kath Albury. 'Spanking stories: reading and writing bad female heterosex' Continuum: Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 12(1) April 1998

Kath Albury. 'Homie-Erotica': Heterosexual Female Desire in The Picture'
Media International Australia, No 84, May 1997

Peer-Reviewed Papers in Conference Proceedings

Kath Albury, Nina Funnell and Estelle Noonan. ‘The politics of sexting: young people, self-representation and citizenship’. (PDF) Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference: Media, Democracy and Change, Old Parliament House, 7-9 July 2010. (in press, submitted 20 May 2010).

Introductions

Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby, Introduction: ‘Children, young people, sexuality and the media’ ‘Children, Young People, Sexuality and the Media’ Media International Australia, No 135, May 2010

Editing of Peer-reviewed journals

Kath Albury and Catharine Lumby, ‘Children, Young People, Sexuality and the Media’ Special issue of Media International Australia, No 135, May 2010

Reports and Submissions

Submission of Professor Catharine Lumby, Director of the Journalism and Media Research Centre and Dr Kath Albury, ARC Postdoctoral Fellow, Journalism and Media Research Centre, UNSW to the The Senate Standing Committee on Environment, Communication and the Arts Inquiry into the sexualisation of children in the contemporary media environment (April 23rd, 2008) http://jmrc.arts.unsw.edu.au/jmrc-public-reports-and-submissions/sexualisation-of-children/

Catharine Lumby, Wendy McCarthy, Kath Albury. Playing By the Rules: On and Off the Field. Sydney: University of Sydney, National Rugby League, 2004

Other articles (media)

Review

Kath Albury. 'Girls Like You' by Paul Sheehan. Sydney Morning Herald. 15 August 2006.

Feature

Kath Albury. 'Swinging subcultures'. HIV Australia. Vol 5 No 4 July 2007.
http://www.afao.org.au/view_articles.asp pxa=ve&pxs=103&pxsc=127&pxsgc=138&id=630

Kath Albury. 'Go and get Real'. New Matilda. Issue 78 February 2006 http://www.newmatilda.com

Kath Albury. 'Porno-chic, Fembots and Girly-girls'. New Matilda. Issue 62 November 2005 http://www.newmatilda.com

Kath Albury. 'The trouble with sex'. Sydney Morning Herald. 24-25 April 2004

Kath Albury. 'Porn again'. The Big Issue Australia. No 197 23 Feb 2004

Kath Albury. 'Public Sex'. HIV AustraliaVol 12 No 4 July 2003

Kath Albury. 'NVE and community standards: whose community are we talking about?' Adult Industry Review, Vol 2, No 3, 1999.
http://libertus.net/censor/odocs/alburynve.html

Opinion

Kath Albury. ‘Mothers provide role models for pleasure’. Sydney Morning Herald. 25 June 2008.http://www.smh.com.au/news/opinion/mothers-provide-role-models-for-pleasure/2008/06/25/1214073338069.html

Kath Albury. 'Ethics of porn are in the eye of the beholder'. Sydney Morning Herald. 28 May 2007.http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2007/05/27/1180205070043.html

Kath Albury. 'Blanket censorship stifles access to help' The Australian. 20 August 2004

Kath Albury. 'Sexing the memoir'. The Australian. 19 May 2003.

Kath Albury. 'Curious teens need to be informed about sex, not controlled'.
Sydney Morning Herald. 4 March 2003. http://www.smh.com.au/articles/2003/03/03/1046540134744.html

Affiliations and Memberships

Kath has been a member of the NSW Health Ministerial Advisory Committee on HIV/AIDS and STIs, Health Promotion Sub Committee since 2004.

She is a member of The Association of Internet Researchers, the Cultural Studies Association of Australasia, and The Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.

Personal Links

http://www.kathalbury.com/