Outputs
Monograph
Mccallum, K., Chatskin, M., Deas, M., Dreher, T., Hess, K., John, E., Joseph, S., Myers, A., Skogerbo, E., de Souza, P., & Waller, L. (2022). After the Silence: Media reporting of child sexual abuse in the wake of a Royal Commission. News and Media Research Centre. https://apo.org.au/node/321304
Media Guides
News & Media Research Centre. (2023). Engaging with Media about Child Sexual Abuse: For Victims and Survivors. Commonwealth Government and University of Canberra, Canberra.
News & Media Research Centre (2023). Reporting on Child Sexual Abuse: Guidance for Media. Commonwealth Government and University of Canberra, Canberra.
Reports
Walsh, B., & Mccallum, K. (2023). Media guides for the reporting of Child Sexual Abuse: Consultation Summary. University of Canberra. https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/centres/nmrc/media-guides-project
Mccallum, K., Holland, K., Fulton, J., Walsh, B., Deas, M., Sutherland, G., John, E., & Rickwood, D. (2023). Media reporting of child sexual abuse in Australia: 2020-22. News and Media Research Centre. https://www.canberra.edu.au/research/centres/nmrc/media-guides-project
Book Chapters
Deas, M., Mccallum, K., & Martin, K. (2023). Mediating via materiality: Continuing critical conversations around child sexual abuse in Australia. In U. Frederucj, A. Harrison, T. Ireland, & J. Magee (Eds.), Difficult Conversations (pp. 19-32). British Council. https://doi.org/10.57884/6P72-TZ16
Hess, K., Mccallum, K., Waller, L., & Myers, A. (2021). Local journalism and the ethics of inquiry. Ethical Space, 18(3-4), 20-35. Article 3.
McCallum, K., & Waller, L. (2021). Truth, reconciliation and global ethics. In S. J.A. Ward (Ed.), Handbook of Global Media Ethics (1 ed., pp. 783-801). Springer. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-32103-5_40
Journal Articles
Skogerbø, E., McCallum, K., & Dreher, T. (2025). Overshadowed voices in media reporting on truth-telling commissions. Media, Culture and Society, 47(1), 96-112. https://doi.org/10.1177/01634437241276125
Chatskin, M. (2024). Amplifying victim–survivor voices: media power, collective action, and ultra-Orthodox Jewish identity in the Leifer case. Media International Australia, 193(1), 48-64. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X241251497
McCallum, K., Dreher, T., Deas, M., de Souza, P., Joseph, S., & Skogerbø, E. (2024). Making public or quiet listening? Media logics and public inquiries into the abuse of children. Media International Australia, 1-17. https://doi.org/10.1177/1329878X241267722
de Souza, P., & Dreher, T. (2024). Resistance, reclamation and repair: the Parragirls feminist archive and reparative media practices in the wake of institutional harm and media damage, Feminist Media Studies, 24, pp. 783 – 799, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/14680777.2023.2226838
Wilkinson, J., & Waller, T. (2024). A Poetic Inquiry Into Journalists’ Experiences of Covering Institutional Child Sexual Abuse. RMIT University. Journal contribution. https://hdl.handle.net/10779/rmit.28038458.v1
Scudder, M. F., Ercan, S. A., & McCallum, K. (2023). Institutional listening in deliberative democracy: Towards a deliberative logic of transmission. Politics, 43(1), 38-53. https://doi.org/10.1177/02633957211060691
Hess, K., & Mccallum, K. (2023). Reflecting on a painful past: Journalism, temporal reflexivity and the collective memory of child sexual abuse in a local news setting. Media History, 29(3), 401-416. https://doi.org/10.1080/13688804.2022.2092463
McCallum, K., Waller, L., & Myers, A. (2023). Revelation, Reckoning and Recovery: Bearing Witness Proximally in Local Journalism. Journalism Studies, 24(9), 1175-1193. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2023.2203754
Dreher, T., & Waller, L., (2022), Enduring silence: racialized news values, white supremacy and a national apology for child sexual abuse, Ethnic and Racial Studies, 45, pp. 1671 – 1692, http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/01419870.2021.1971732
Waller, L., Dreher, T., Hess, K., McCallum, K., & Skogerbø, E. (2020). Media hierarchies of attention: News values and Australia’s Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse. Journalism Studies, 21(2), 180-196. https://doi.org/10.1080/1461670X.2019.1633244
Conference presentations
Chatskin, M. (2023). ‘Malka Leifer in secular and religious news and community talk: Reportage, power and scandal’, presented at the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) conference, Victoria University of Wellington, NZ.
Skogerbø, E., McCallum, K., Dreher, T., & de Souza, P. (2022). ‘Overshadowed voices in Global Inquries’, presented at the Australian and Aotearoa New Zealand Communication Association (AANZCA) conference, University of Wollongong, NSW.
Myers, A., Waller, L., & McCallum, K. (2021). ‘A dark legacy’: How Ballarat’s local newspaper covered institutional child sexual abuse, 2010-2019′, presented at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference, University of Melbourne, VIC.
John, E. (2021). ‘A few bad eggs’: The ABC’s reporting of child sexual abuse in the ADF’, presented at the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association (ANZCA) conference, University of Melbourne, VIC.
McCallum, K. (2020) ‘Media Ethics and the ‘Global Chain of Inquiry’, presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) online conference as part of the panel Reconciling Past Injustices: Media and National Inquiries as ‘Critical Conversations’.
Dreher, T., & Waller, L. (2020). ‘Unsettling Apologies: How Racialised Hierarchies of Media Attention Whitewash Injustice’, presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) online conference as part of the panel Reconciling Past Injustices: Media and National Inquiries as ‘Critical Conversations’.
Skogerbø, E. (2020). ‘The Truth and Reconciliation Commission in Norway’, presented at the International Communication Association (ICA) online conference as part of the panel Reconciling Past Injustices: Media and National Inquiries as ‘Critical Conversations’.
PhD thesis
Chatskin, M. (2025). Mediatised public crisis and diasporic Jewish identity: the Malka Leifer case in Australian mainstream and local religious news coverage, and community talk, University of Canberra.
Media stories and interviews
11 June 2024: Protecting victims and survivors in the media, University of Canberra Research Impact Library
6 October 2023: Breaking Silences project’s findings presented at Canberra symposium, Ballarat Courier
24 March 2023: 2022 Researcher of the Year, Kerry McCallum, University of Canberra UnCover magazine
9 November 2022: Standing in solidarity: UC community participates in ribbon-tying ceremony, University of Canberra Newsroom
9 November 2022: Professor Kerry McCallum wins Research Excellence award, University of Canberra Newsroom
21 September 2022: UC researchers to develop guidance for reporting child sexual abuse, University of Canberra Newsroom
9 August 2021: Ballarat reporters reflect on the Royal Commission as part of new study, Ballarat Courier
Breaking Silences 