Professor Jacqui Ewart is a Professor at the School of Humanities, Languages and Social Science in Griffith University, Australia. She has worked as a journalist and media manager, and is the lead author of Managing Your Academic Research Project (2020, Springer). She has worked full-time as an academic since mid 1996. Professor Ewart has published extensively in international journals, authored and co-authored several books and has served and continues to serve as an editorial board member of several international journals. She has led large research projects, including the award-winning Reporting Islam Project, and her research includes communication across various phases of disasters, and the involvement of politicians in disasters. Professor Ewart also researches news media representations of various minority groups, including Muslims and Indigenous Australians. She has also undertaken extensive research into radio audiences, including talkback and community radio audiences. Professor Ewart has been a visiting scholar at Macau University, Macau, and at Sun Yat-sen University, School of Communication and Design, China. One of her books was also long-listed for a political writing prize in Australia.