Rate My Professor Mignon Shardlow

Dr Mignon Shardlow serves as Senior Lecturer in Communications and Media within the School of Arts and Sciences at the University of Notre Dame Australia, based at the Fremantle campus. A former practicing journalist, she gained extensive experience in newsrooms spanning from the Republic of Palau in Micronesia to Kununurra in Western Australia, reporting on diverse subjects including unexploded bombs and native title claims. This background equips her with unique insights into the challenges faced by entry-level journalists and the hiring perspectives of editors. She transitioned to academia as a journalism lecturer at Curtin University, holding the position from 2003 to 2012, before joining the University of Notre Dame Australia in Semester 2, 2012.

Shardlow earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia in 2009, with a thesis entitled "Becoming a journalist: a study of professional identity formation." This work, based on a longitudinal study involving 90 semi-structured interviews, examines how aspiring journalists develop their professional identities through stages of socialization from university to the newsroom. Her research specializations include journalism education, work-integrated learning, media ethics and freedom, new media, health communication, global media and development, journalism and activism, and community journalism. Notable publications feature "PNG provincial hospital boards' compliance with statutory financial reporting obligations," co-authored with Alistair Brown and published in Legal Issues in Business (2012, Vol. 5, pp. 27-39), analyzing financial reporting compliance in Papua New Guinea's provincial hospitals. Another key paper is "Scholarship funding through strategic reporting: the case of Koro Island Scholarship Fund," also with Brown, appearing in the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing (2015). She further contributed as interviewer to the 2018 "High and Cliff" podcast series by the School of Arts and Sciences, hosting discussions on topics ranging from history to ecology.