Dr Wendy Davis has been awarded one of CQUniversity's Research Advancement Award Scheme Early Career Fellowships for 2010.

The fellowship begins in June 2010 for a period of 2 years and will focus on developing her research on the television mockumentary that was begun in her PhD.

It is connected with the newly formed Learning and Teaching Education Research Centre (LTERC) at the University and,  Wendy's role extends to that of Convenor of the Centre's Cultural Studies and Education Special Interest Group...
Dr. Wendy Davis

Wendy's aim is to establish a clear and recognisable identity for Cultural Studies and Education research at CQUniversity by exploring the nexus between the two disciplinary fields. The specific program of research will be undertaken alongside the formation of the Cultural Studies and Education Special Interest Group.

The activities of the CSAE network will include seeking out and developing potential research networks and funded internal and external research projects and collaborations. The CSIE network will recognise the diversity of these research areas, but will also highlight and reinforce the transdisciplinary synergies between Cultural Studies and Education.  More specifically, Wendys research focuses on the television mockumentary, encompassing  a number of threads which are central to the disciplinary nexus of Cultural Studies and Education.

Aspects of the television mockumentary the research program will examine include: a genealogical history of the development of the television mockumentary, the television mockumentary in Australia, in Britain, and the United States. Translations and Adaptations of the television mockumentary and, the mockumentary and the future of television comedy.

Specifically, it uses critical theory to examine the contemporary operations of power mobilized by television as a cultural technology. In particular, it focuses on the television mockumentary as a developing cultural and generic television form.