Rate My Professor Jeanti St Clair

Ms Jeanti St Clair is a Lecturer in Journalism and Course Coordinator of the Bachelor of Digital Media in the Faculty of Business, Law and Arts at Southern Cross University. She earned a BA from Deakin University, a Graduate Certificate in Academic Practice from Southern Cross University, and an MA in Journalism from the University of Technology Sydney. St Clair brings extensive professional experience as a journalist in radio, print, and online media to her academic role, where she teaches news journalism, radio and podcasting, video journalism, digital storytelling, and supervises student professional placements and media projects. She previously supervised student reporting teams at the Byron Writers Festival from 2010 to 2020.

Her research interests include locative audio and augmented reality audio experiences for place literacy, journalism as practice-based research, journalism ethics and curricula, and storytelling for creative recovery amid floods and climate disasters. Key projects encompass the Lismore Flood Stories audio walks on 2017 flood experiences, Rescue: Stories and Portraits of Civilian Rescuers from the 2022 Northern Rivers floods, Dear River multimedia work, and contributions to the Floods and Me: Education in a changing climate project since 2022. In 2023, she was appointed inaugural Research Artist for NORPA, advancing trauma-informed community story research. St Clair's publications feature 'Between flood vulnerability and watery pedagogies: A critical review of the literature' (2025), 'We spoke to kids after the Lismore floods. To recover, they told us they need support, time and hugs' (2025), 'Reaching readers matters: What The Junction’s analytics reveal about regional online journalism' (2024), and 'Doing it for Real: Designing Experiential Journalism Curricula that Prepare Students for the New and Uncertain World of Journalism Work' (2015). She served as Book Reviews Editor for the Australian Journalism Review (2020-2024) and is Vice President (Awards) of the Journalism Education and Research Association of Australia since 2019. As a member of Creative First Aid, she supports community recovery through creative activities.