Media & Communications

Mr Ron Bell, BA(Hons), DipEd Melb
Lecturer in Charge
Ron Bell has taught Media and Communications at Trinity since 1998. He started his teaching career at Methodist Ladies' College, Kew, where he taught senior Politics, History and English. He has published two textbooks on politics in Australia, the USA and Russia (Oxford University Press) and two anthologies of Australian literature (OUP and Addison Wesley Longman). He has worked as a newspaper journalist, editor and writer of comedy cabaret shows. Ron also teaches Professional Writing 101 and Understanding Australian Media at the University of Melbourne.

Mr David Neo, MA(Film Studies) Concordia, BA(Communication Studies) Calgary

Ms Rose De la cruz, BA Monash & Leeds, DipEd La Trobe, MA(Environmental Studies) Melb, RSACert, DipTEFL UK
Rose studied an Arts degree at Monash and Leeds (UK) universities majoring in International History and Politics and a postgraduate diploma in Education specialising in ESL and Social Sciences. She worked teaching English to refugees and migrants in Melbourne for five years before being offered a position teaching in Mexico with the Anglo Mexican Cultural Institute. She worked in Mexico for ten years teaching with the Institute and later in technical schools and a university. Returning to Melbourne in 1990, she taught at RMIT and at The Centre for Women’s Education before joining the EAP team at Trinity in 1995. Her work in  TCFS was interrupted for two years when she returned with her family to Mexico to work on the Australian Volunteers International program. Rose’s volunteer work in environmental education provided the basis for her Master’s thesis, completed in 2000. She became Lecturer in Charge of Environment and Development in 2000. She also teaches some classes in EAP and Media & Communication.

Mr Kent Middleton, BA Monash, MA La Trobe
Kent Middleton has extensive experience teaching Sociology, Politics, Media and Communication at a number of Australian universities. He currently teaches in the Department of Media and Communications at the University of Melbourne and Media and Politics in Australia at RMIT University. His present research interests include media representations of social conflict and the development of the public relations
state.