Professor Julian Thomas

PhD (ANU), Grad Dip MediaCommsIT Law (Melb)

Julian Thomas is Director of the ISR, and also leads the ISR's Media and Communications program. His research interests are in new media, information policy and the history of communications technologies. Before coming to the ISR in 2000, he taught new media at RMIT, worked on the staff of the Productivity Commission's Broadcasting Inquiry, and was a senior researcher at the former Australian Key Centre for Cultural and Media Policy at Griffith University. His publications include studies of intellectual property issues relating to new media, the future of local content rules for Australian television, and computer skills in Australian schools. He is currently writing a book about music piracy and the internet.

Julian is an associate editor of the website Australian Policy Online, and co-editor with Peter Browne of Briefings, a series of books on current issues in public policy published by UNSW Press. He is also a member of the editorial committee of the journal Southern Review: Communication, Politics and Culture.

Publications in the Swinburne Research Bank

Office: EW123
Telephone: +61 3 9214 5466
Email: jthomas@swin.edu.au