Jan Idle
Jan Idle is the Project Officer for The Listening Project 2009-10. (ARC,CRN). She has completed an MA in Cultural Studies (UTS) writing about notions of community and contact while working with Dr Katrina Schlunke as a research assistant for the ARC funded Voyages of Myth: Captain Cook in the popular imagination. She is interested in the collision of community, history and contact in the inner city where she lives with her family.  “Walking to work” based on her thesis will be published in an upcoming edition of Cultural Studies Review.

Jemima Mowbray
Jemima Mowbray is the Research Assistant for the pilot research project, ‘Listening Across Difference’ (funded by a UTS ECR Grant). Jemima is currently a postgraduate student in the Department of History at the University of Sydney. Her doctoral research is a history of women, development, and the colonial state in Papua New Guinea (1945 –75). She is interested in feminist theory; memory and narrative; and gender and the colonial encounter in the Pacific.

Paul Byron is a research assistant for the Macquarie New Staff Grant Project undertaken in partnership with ICE. He is working with Justine Lloyd on a media listening project that addresses the storytelling and listening practices of community media practitioners. He has also undertaken a literature search into media and community arts evaluation practices. Elsewhere he is undertaking doctoral research at the National Centre in HIV Social Research (UNSW), looking at discourses and practices of young people’s sexual health. This research questions concepts of knowledge, risk, and safety through feminist and post-structural considerations of bodies, subjectivities, and everyday practice. He autobiographically self-publishes in zines and blogs.