Cate Thill is Lecturer in Sociology and Communications at the University of Notre Dame Australia. Cate was the project officer for The Listening Project in 2008 and then joined Justine Lloyd (Macquarie), Tanja Dreher (UTS) and Penny O’Donnell (USyd) as co-convener since 2009. Additionally, she is a member of the Australian Research Council’s Cultural Research Network.

With Professor Gerard Goggin (UNSW) and Rosemary Kayess (UNSW), Cate is completing an edited collection on disability, democracy, media and listening that developed out of the 2008 workshop of the same name.

Cate is also working on the Methodologies to ‘Capture’ Listening project with Tanja Dreher (UTS) and Kate Crawford (UNSW). This project explores the tension between the use of listening as metaphor and an aural capacity, the distinction between audience studies and listening research as well as the relationship between the outcome of recognition and the intersubjective practice of listening.

Cate has most recently published an article ‘Courageous listening, responsibility for the other and the Northern Territory Intervention’ in a special issue on ‘Listening – new ways of engaging with media and culture’ edited by Penny O’Donnell, Justine Lloyd and Tanja Dreher (Continuum: Journal of media & cultural studies, 2009).

Cate co-convened the Methodologies to Capture Listening workshop in 2009 with Tanja Dreher (UTS) and Kate Crawford (UNSW). She is also co-convening the Listening Project Symposium.