bachelor of communication honours

Below is the press release for the broadcast of One Blood. This documentary is the outcome of Jessica's 2008 Honour's project, "Walking with Ghosts".

ONE BLOOD

The story of William Cooper: a voice raised in the silence

First broadcast: 5 December 2009

Ash completed honours in 2006 receiving First Class Honours, he applied and received a Commonwealth Government Postgraduate Research to undertake his PhD. This is his description of his experience of honours.

"In 2006 I was offered an opportunity to participate in a new honours program within RMIT University’s School of Applied Communication.

Having completed my undergraduate degree in Bachelor of Arts (Professional Communication), with a major in public relations, at RMIT in 2005, I am now furthering my interest in the area through my research thesis.

My name is Veronica Ridge. I have worked as a professional journalist for 30 years, mainly for metropolitan newspapers. Even so long after starting out as a cadet reporter at the Melbourne afternoon newspaper The Herald I still get a real thrill daily from my input in the publication of beautifully-crafted words and newsprint pages that live and breathe.

Verity Kowal completed her degree in Creative Advertising at RMIT, Melbourne in 2005. In 2006 she is undertaking her Honours in Applied Communication at RMIT, focusing on both the current and predicted future role of copywriters in the Advertising industry. After completion of Honours she hopes to gain employment as a copywriter either in Australia or abroad.

Scott Markworth is a graduate of the Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies) program at RMIT University, Melbourne, having completed his degree with distinction in 2005. Recipient of multiple academic awards, and professionally employed in the hospitality (night-life) industry for 5+ years, his research interests include Hong Kong Cinema, Digital Cinema, and Short Film Production.

I have a great passion for children’s media – film, television, and music.

Kristin Stephensen is a 2006 Communication Honours student at RMIT University in Melbourne. She has also completed a Bachelor of Arts (Media Studies) at RMIT and a student exchange to Dublin City University in Ireland. Her majors include communications, film and television production and cinema studies.

I've worked as a journalist, an editor, a barmaid, a cleaner, a camp cook and a waitress. I've edited Overland literary magazine and I've contributed features to The Age, The Australian, The Courier-Mail, Good Weekend, Art Monthly, Griffith Review and others. I'm interested in the ways science debates are played out in the media.

My name is Iz Sulaini and I hail from Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. In 2004, I entered one of my works into the 2004 Privacy Victoria Awards competition and won the Staff Prize and Third Prize awarded by the Victorian Privacy Commissioner. I have also graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (Advertising-Creative) with Distinction in 2005.