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Dr David Leith

Adjunct Senior Research Fellow

Staff Member Details
Mobile: 0411 229 233
Email: d.leith@ecu.edu.au
Campus: Mount Lawley  

David is an Adjunct Academic at the School of Arts and Humanities.

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Law, The University of Western Australia.
  • Bachelor of Arts, The University of New England.
  • Doctor of Philosophy, Edith Cowan University, 2004.

Research Outputs

Book Chapters

  • Jaunzems, K., Green, L., Leith, D. (2021). Virtual Reality Training for Workers in High-Risk Occupations. Tracing behind the image: An interdisciplinary exploration of visual literacy (150-160). Brill. https://doi.org/10.1163/9789004438392_014.

Conference Publications

  • Jaunzems, K., Green, L., Leith, D., Teague, C. (2017). Ethnographic insights into safety communication for frontline workers.. Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association Conference 2017 - Communication Worlds: Access, Voice, Diversity, Engagement (13p.). Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.

Book Chapters

  • Teague, C., Leith, D., Green, L. (2013). Symbolic interactionism in safety communication in the workplace. 40th Anniversary of Studies in Symbolic Interactionism (175-199). Emerald Group Publishing Limited. https://doi.org/10.1108/S0163-2396(2013)0000040011.

Journal Articles

  • Teague, C., Green, L., Leith, D. (2010). An ambience of power? Challenges inherent in the role of the public transport transit officer.. M/C Journal, 13(2), 1.

Conference Publications

  • Teague, C., Green, L., Leith, D. (2010). Watching me, watching you: The use of CCTV to support safer workplaces for public transport transit officers.. Media Democracy and Change: Refereed Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association Annual Conference (11p.). Australian and New Zealand Communication Association.

Conference Publications

  • Teague, C., Leith, D. (2008). Who Guards Our Guardians? The Use of Ethnography to Study How Railway Transit Officers Avoid Injury. The 4th PATREC Research Forum (13p). Planning and Transport Research Centre.
  • Teague, C., Leith, D. (2008). Men of Steel or Plastic Cops: The use of Ethnography as a Transformative Agent. Proceedings of the Transforming Information and Learning Conference, Transformers: people, technologies and spaces (10p). School of Computer and Information Science, Edith Cowan University.

Journal Articles

  • Leith, D. (2001). who owns your sickness in the new corporate wellness?. M - C Journal, 4(3), http://www.media-culture.org.au/0106/owns.html.

Research Projects

  • An ethnographic investigation into the everyday work and communication cultures of public transport transit guards: reducing risk and injury, Australian Research Council, Grant - Linkage (APAI), 2006 ‑ 2011, $151,857.

Research Student Supervision

No data available

Associate Supervisor

  • Doctor of Philosophy, Reducing risk and injury to transit officers
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