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= John Harrison (historian) =

Dr John Harrison is a public intellectual who lives in Brisbane, Australia. He is an author, academic and senior lecturer at The University of Queensland. He holds an honours degree in history, a PhD from The University of Queensland, and a number of teaching qualifications.

Career
At The University of Queensland his current teaching and research includes media regulation and ethics, and the social, cultural and natural history of western Cape York.

For over twelve years he has been a member of the weekly Hidden Persuaders panel on ABC Local Radio, with Steve Austin. More recently he has also been a political commentator for Fairfax.

Prior to returning to The University of Queensland in 2002, he taught ethics in the Business Faculty at Queensland University of Technology in the School of Advertising, Marketing and Public Relations from 1999-2001.

During the nineties he worked for ABCTV and Radio National as a producer, was involved in a number of business enterprises at senior management level, and as a senior public servant in the Department of Family Services and Aboriginal and Islander Affairs, under the Goss Government.

During the 1980s and early 90s he served in a number of strategic communication and community development roles for both the Uniting Church in Australia, and the National Council of Churches in Australia. He authored a popular history of the first decade of the Uniting Church, Baptism of Fire (1987).

During the 1970s he was a high school teacher in metropolitan and country high schools, including a stint in the new coal mining community of Moranbah in Central Queensland, where he subsequently worked in adult education and community development.

His unpublished PhD (awarded 1991) examined the career of Queensland Premier Sir Joh Bjelke-Petersen, arguing that Bjelke-Petersen’s enduring political support came from his congruence with the piety of Queenslanders; a piety which transcended all traditions of Christianity.

Selected publications

 * Hirst, Martin, Harrison, John, & Mazepa, Patrica (2014). Communication and new media: From broadcast to narrowcast. Oxford University Press.
 * Harrison, John, Rintel, Sean and Mitchell, Elizabeth (2014). "Australian social media trends". In Cui Litang and Michael H. Prosser (Ed.), Social media in Asia (pp. 589-627) Doerzbach, Germany: Dignity Press.
 * Harrison, J. (2013). The world of news since the end of The News of the World. Research in Ethical Issues in Organizations, 9, 57-79.
 * Harrison, John and Rooney, David (2012). "Knowledge and its integrity within a knowledge economy: ethics and wise social research". In Kevin Love (Ed.), Ethics in social research (pp. 27-50) Bingley, W Yorks, United Kingdom: Emerald Group Publishing. doi:10.1108/S1042-3192(2012)0000012005
 * Muller, Michael J., Dulhunty, Joel, Paratz, Jennifer D., Harrison, John and Redman, Bruce (2013) Don’t be a flamin’ fool: effectiveness of an adult burn prevention media campaign in two regions in Queensland, Australia - an interventional study. The Journal of Trauma and Acute Care Surgery, 74(2): 652-657. doi:10.1097/TA.0b013e31827d5f42
 * Ernst, Hardy, Harrison, John and Griffin, David (2013). Anywhere, anytime, with any device: scenario-based mobile learning in biomedical sciences. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 7(2): 99-112. doi:10.1504/IJMLO.2013.055617
 * Harrison, John and Ernst, Hardy (2012). First year communication and physiology classes collaborate for iTunesU content creation: A practice report. International Journal of the First Year in Higher Education, 3(1): 75-82. doi:10.5204/intjfyhe.v3i1.73
 * Harrison, John (2012). Faith and belief in "The Land of the Holy Spirit". Media Development, 59(1): 14-18.
 * Ernst, Hardy and Harrison, John (2012). Active learning opportunities offered by a prototype template of a new web-based SBLiTM interface for smart phones. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 6(1): 1-7. doi:10.1504/IJMLO.2012.046878
 * Ernst, Hardy, Harrison, John and Colthorpe, Kay (2012). Mobile learning materials as a 'prompt' for participation in physiology practical classes. International Journal of Mobile Learning and Organisation, 6(1): 25-37. doi:10.1504/IJMLO.2012.046880
 * Harrison, John (2009). Fiji's frank and fearless Methodists. ABC Online.
 * Harrison, J. (2004). Community media: A third way for the fourth estate? Australian Studies in Journalism, 13: 1-7.