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Professor Panizza Allmark

Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies

Staff Member Details
Telephone: +61 8 6304 6956
Email: p.allmark@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  
ORCID iD: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-6910-6511

Panizza is a Professor of Visual and Cultural Studies within the School of Arts and Humanities.

Background

Panizza is an award winning interdisciplinary academic, with several awards recognising excellence across teaching, research, research supervision, university service and media research engagement. Most recently, in 2025, she was the recipient of ECU’s ‘Best in Broadcast’ Award. Panizza has undertaken several keynotes as well as been invited to present her cultural studies, and photography research at the University of Cambridge, Sorbonne University, New York University, the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London, Airlangga University, amongst other international institutions and major media outlets.

Panizza is Chief Editor of the internationally recognised Q1 journal, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies. She is also on the editorial board of The Journal of Communication and Public Relations (JCPR) and MEDKOM, Journal of Media and Communication. Panizza is Edith Cowan University’s research director for theWestern Australia East Java University Consortium (WAEJUC). Panizza is also a regular media commentator for ABC radio on popular music history.

Over the course of ten years, Panizza has undertaken a number of prominent leadership roles, such as Associate Dean, Program Director, Associate Head of School, course coordinator of Media and Cultural Studies, course coordinator of the Master of Professional Communication and Higher Degrees Research Coordinator. Panizza is a Leadership WA Fellow. Her results focused leadership has been benchmarked at 20% higher than the Australian university average. Panizza has led curriculum innovation and developed five undergraduate and postgraduate degrees. Some of Panizza’s achievements include: leading the revision of the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Media and Communication degrees, leading and designing the new dual degree with Portsmouth University, Global Media and Communication, and leading the Media and Cultural Studies major. Through her leadership of the Communication discipline, it has ranked in the top 200 QS World Ranking, and ECU’s Communication degree has been among the top six courses in Australia.

For over twenty years, Panizza has worked as a documentary photographer and has spent time working across Asia, Europe, North and South America. Panizza has had fifteen solo exhibitions and numerous group exhibitions. Her work has been exhibited in London, New York, Frankfurt, Shanghai and in Italy and Australia.

Professional associations

  • Leadership of Western Australia (Fellow)
  • Cultural studies Association of Australasia (CSAA)
  • International Visual Sociology Association (IVSA)
  • Centre for Creative Industries, Noongar Institute of WA (NIWA)
  • Association of Cultural Studies (ACS)
  • International Association for the Study of Popular Music (IASPM)

Awards and recognition

University and National Teaching Awards

  • 2025 - ECU Best in Broadcast
  • 2005 - ECU Service to the School, School of Communications and Multimedia
  • 2014 - ECU Outstanding Performance in Research Supervision
  • 2011 - ECU Vice-Chancellor’s Award for Excellence in Teaching
  • 2012 - ECU Faculty Research Fellowship
  • 2006 - ECU Faculty Award for Excellent for Postgraduate Coursework Teaching, Education and Arts
  • 2005 - ECU Faculty Award for Excellent for Postgraduate Coursework Teaching, Education and Arts

National and International Research Positions

  • Chief Editor of 'Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies'
  • Assessor for the Australian Research Council

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