ECU offers innovative and practical courses across a variety of disciplines and we have a vibrant research culture. ECU is a leader in developing alternative entry pathways to higher education.
We have three campuses in Western Australia. Joondalup and Mount Lawley in the Perth metropolitan area and our South West campus in Bunbury, 200km south of the Perth CBD.
ECU provides a variety of services and facilities that go beyond the classroom, with opportunities for personal development and social interaction for students and staff.
We collaborate with all types of businesses, including new start-ups, small to medium enterprises, not-for-profits, community organisations, government and large corporates in the resources sector.
Children's University Edith Cowan aims to inspire students between seven and fourteen to develop confidence and a love of learning through validated activities beyond the school curriculum.
The Inspiring Minds scholarship program are equity scholarships that give students an opportunity to access an education that may otherwise be out of reach.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.