I am a Sessional Academic in the Department of Media, Music, Creative Arts, Language and Literature, and Centre Manager: Research and Engagement for the Creative Documentary Research Centre. I was a Macquarie University Research Fellow from 2017 to 2020. My research focuses on gender, labour and technology in the media.  In 2018-19 I was a British Academy Visiting Fellow at the University of Sussex, where I worked on the AHRC-funded 'Connected Histories of the BBC' project. In 2021 I was awarded the Media Studies Grant by the Media Studies Commission of the International Federation of Television Archives for my project 'The Women Who Made Australian Television', in partnership with the National Film and Sound Archive of Australia. This project was the winner of the  2022 Oral History Australia Media Award. In 2017 I was awarded the biennial Ferguson Prize for Labour History for my article ‘Women journalists and the pretence of equality’ (Labour History, 2015), and was awarded the 2014 Dennis-Wettenhall Prize at the University of Melbourne, for my Phd thesis about Australian women war reporters in World War II. I was the 2004 Nancy Keesing Fellow at the State Library of New South Wales.

I am the author of Australian Women War Reporters: Boer War to Vietnam (NewSouth, 2015) and the co-editor, with Michelle Arrow and Clare Monagle, of Small Screens: Essays in Contemporary Australian Television (Monash University Publishing, 2016). I co-curated (with Kate Murphy) the '100 Voices That Made the BBC: Pioneering Women' website, for the BBC and the University of Sussex. I have co-edited three interdisciplinary special journal issues, Women's History Review: 'Labour, Media and Technology' (2022) with Kaitlynn Mendes and Kate Terkanian; Feminist Media Histories : 'Transnational Broadcasting' (2019) with Kate Murphy and Kristin Skoog; and Media International Australia : ‘Gendered Labour and Media’ (2016) with Justine Lloyd. With Dr Vicky Ball (De Montfort) I am co-founder and co-convenor of an international scholarly network on women's broadcasting histories.

I have extensive experience in the media and museums sectors as a producer/director, researcher, writer, curator, and oral historian. I produced Holding a Tiger by the Tail: Jessie Litchfield (Earshot, ABC Radio National, 2015), about the Darwin newspaper editor and journalist Jessie Litchfield, and Fler and the Modernist Impulse (Hindsight, ABC Radio National, 2011) about the impact of modernism on the Australian home. I also wrote and directed the television documentary Our Drowned Town (SBS TV, 2001) about the flooding of the NSW town of Adaminaby for the Snowy Mountains Scheme. In 2013 I co-curated the exhibition Life Matters, Action Counts: Michael Callaghan and Collaborators, at the University of Wollongong.

I was Deputy Director of the Centre for Media History from 2016-2019 and served on its Advisory Board 2014-2022. I served on the the judging panel for the Lowy Institute’s 2017 Media Award.