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Dr. Alex Beare is a Lecturer in communication at the University of Queensland. His research specialises in subscription video on demand, audience cultures, and media representations of masculinity. Prior to coming to Brisbane, Alex taught at the University of Adelaide with a teaching focus in Digital Cultures, Media Theory, Screen Studies, and Research Methods. Since completing his PhD, Alex has published in journals such as Television & New Media, the International Journal of Communication, and Critical Studies in Television, and has contributed to ABC Radio and The Conversation. He is also the author of The New Audience for Old TV (Routledge, 2024). Alex is currently leading cross-institutional research collaborations relating to the emergence of ‘supportive streaming’ and digital news representations of homophobia in the AFL.

Bonnie Evans is a Lecturer in Media Studies at the University of Queensland. Her research has addressed the intersections between feminist politics and screen media, particularly film and television, and she has published on true crime documentary. Her most recent journal article examines rape-revenge film in the context of the Me Too movement, specifically Corale Fargeat's 2017 film Revenge, and her forthcoming monograph The New Feminist Horror will be published by Edinburgh University Press in 2027. Her book will explore aesthetic and thematic links between contemporary feminisms, including the Me Too Movement and recent horror cinema, and the PhD thesis that forms the basis of the book received a UQ Dean's Award for Oustanding HDR Theses in 2022. Bonnie teaches across film and television studies, media studies and digital media and in 2025, she won the HASS Early Career Teaching Excellence Award for her innovations in teaching.

She is interested in supervising HDR research on the following broad topics:

• Gender in film, television and media studies
• Feminist media studies
• Genre film, television and media, particularly horror
• Embodied approaches to media studies (phenomenology, affect, feeling and emotion)
• Documentary studies, true crime and reality television
• Gender and sexual violence in film and television
• Feminist movements in media (#MeToo, the fourth wave, second wave etc).

Lucy Fraser is a Senior Lecturer in Japanese at the School of Languages and Cultures, St Lucia campus, UQ. Her research interests include depictions of animal-human relationships in fiction, fairy tales and fairy tale retellings in Japanese and English, and ideas of gender--especially the figure of the girl--in contemporary Japanese literature, manga, film, and television. She is also interested in Japan-Australia literary and cultural connections, and editing and translation of literature and literary criticism.

Jenna Ng is a multi-award-winning researcher studying digital media culture, with particular research interests in digital visual culture; creative technologies; AI and algorithmic culture and interactive storytelling. Currently Head of the School of Communication and Arts, she also leads strategic direction, leadership and management of a multi-disciplinary department of over 80 academic staff across art history, drama, journalism, communications, film and television, digital media culture, literature and creative and professional writing.

Ng's publications include the books Understanding Machinima: Essays on Filmmaking in Virtual Worlds (Bloomsbury, 2013), a "Highly Recommended" CHOICE title, and The Post-Screen Through Virtual Reality, Holograms and Light Projections: Where Screen Boundaries Lie (Amsterdam University Press, 2021), which won an Honourable Mention by the British Association of Film, Television and Screen Studies.

Working across a range of media, Ng also produces innovative creative research outputs with practice-based methodologies. She has produced a second screen installation for theatre performance; multimedia scholarship; video essays; and online open-access collaborative initiatives. Her latest project, a creative research website titled "The New Virtuality" (thenewvirtuality.com), won the John Culkin Award for Outstanding Praxis and the Media, Communication and Cultural Studies Association (MECCSA) Practice-Based Research of the Year award, with its video essay winning the Learning on Screen Special Jury Prize (while nominated in the category of "Creative Reuse") and had its debut screening at the InScience Film Festival 2025 in LUX Nijmegen.