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Narratives of War Research Group
  Anzac Day Media Style Guide | Group Members

The Narratives of War Research Group (NOW) is concerned with the interdisciplinary study of aspects of war, peace and reconciliation. Its interest is in representations of war through literature, art, performance, music and the diaries, memoirs, and personal accounts of conflict and its aftermath.
 
The Narratives of War Research Group brings together academics and research students from diverse fields of research and writing. It is dedicated to promoting and promulgating studies that contribute to and understanding of how individuals make sense of the events of war in their lives. This might be through fiction, poetry, photography, drama, music, painting and sculpture, autobiography, biography, oral history, personal diaries, film and visual media, and more formal records.
 
The group is associated with key researchers nationally and internationally, including the Group for War and Culture Studies (GWACS): Association of researchers from University of Westminster, Bristol University and Swansea University.
 
 
NOW members have published the following monographs of papers from the seminars:
 
  • Writings of War, 2006, ed. Claire Woods and Judith Timoney, Adelaide: Lythrum Press.
  • Remnants of War — Retracing the Sites of Conflict and Reconciliation, 2009, ed. Paul Skrebels, Adelaide: Lythrum Press. Click here to order Remnants of War.
  • Also available from NOW is Veterans Remember — Stories for the Community, 2010, ed. Claire Woods and Paul Skrebels, Port Adelaide: Ginnindera Press, recollections from veterans of conflicts including World War 2, Korea, the Malayan Emergency and Vietnam.
  • A biography by Dr Nigel Starck of Australian writer, journalist and broadcaster Russell Braddon, a POW in Changi and on the Thai-Burma Railway and author of the acclaimed memoir The Naked Island, will be published in August, 2011. Further information about the launch of the book will be available later.

Anzac Day for Journalists

Are you confused about the word 'Anzac'? Do you need access to key dates and facts about the Gallipoli campaign? Are you a journalist covering Anzac Day this year?

The Anzac Day Media Style Guide is now available. It has been written by Sharon Mascall-Dare, a working journalist who has previously written style guides for the BBC and the ABC and is studying Anzac Day coverage for a PhD at UniSA, she works in collaboration with the Narratives of War Research Group at the University of South Australia (UniSA). The guide is independent, with an editorial advisory board drawn from academia and the media. It does not represent the view or agenda of any individual or organisation.

The Anzac Day Media Style Guide (PDF) 0.9MB

Sharon Mascall-Dare has been a journalist and broadcaster for more than twenty years, working in London, Paris, Singapore and Australia, mainly for the BBC and the ABC. She has also been a columnist at 'The Age' and continues to produce radio documentaries for the BBC World Service. The Anzac Day Media Style Guide is part of her PhD, which is entitled: 'An Australian story: media and memory in the making of Anzac Day'. Sharon is also producing a radio documentary series, investigating the history of Anzac Day.

For more information follow this link: Sharon Mascall-Dare



Remnants of War
 

Contact Details

For more information about the Narratives of War Research Group please contact:

Professor Claire Woods
Phone: + 61 8 8302 4760
Fax: + 61 8 8302 4745
Email: Claire.Woods@unisa.edu.au
 

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