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Dr Liz Tynan
Associate Professor, JCU Graduate Research School
Dr Liz Tynan is an associate professor at the JCU Graduate Research School. She teaches academic writing, editing and critical thinking skills to postgraduate students.
She is a former journalism academic with a background in both print and electronic media, and a long-standing speciality in science writing and editing. She has worked for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation (ABC) as a reporter and subeditor, and was later Sydney correspondent for New Scientist.
She has undertaken extensive journalistic and academic editing over many years, and has taught these skills for years as well.
Her PhD in science communication from the Australian National University examined aspects of the British nuclear tests in Australia in the 1950s and 1960s. Her book on Maralinga, published by NewSouth Publishing 2016, Atomic Thunder: The Maralinga Story, won the Prime Minister's Literary Award (Australian History) in 2017.
She is also co-author of the Oxford University Press (OUP) textbook Media and Journalism: New Approaches to Theory and Practice, now in its third edition and co-author and editorial advisor on the OUP text, Communication for Business, released in October 2013. This textbook won best Tertiary (Wholly Australian): Teaching and Learning Resource in the Australian Publishing Association Educational Awards in September 2014.
Toby Nutting
Toby Nutting is the Learning Environments Coordinator at James Cook University where he administrates the lecture capture and video delivery platform. North Queensland raised and based he has worked with virtual learning environments, video, radio, and the web.
A former producer then content maker for the Australian Broadcasting Corporation he moved from chasing cyclones and radio yarns to working with captured lectures and learning environments in 2013. At the end of 2016 James Cook University vastly expanded their lecture capture system, automating capture in 50 rooms, and he took on the role of Learning Environments Coordinator.