Rate My Professor Mignon Shardlow

Shardlow earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the Graduate School of Education at the University of Western Australia in 2009, with a thesis entitled "Becoming a journalist: a study of professional identity formation." This work, based on a longitudinal study involving 90 semi-structured interviews, examines how aspiring journalists develop their professional identities through stages of socialization from university to the newsroom. Her research specializations include journalism education, work-integrated learning, media ethics and freedom, new media, health communication, global media and development, journalism and activism, and community journalism. Notable publications feature "PNG provincial hospital boards' compliance with statutory financial reporting obligations," co-authored with Alistair Brown and published in Legal Issues in Business (2012, Vol. 5, pp. 27-39), analyzing financial reporting compliance in Papua New Guinea's provincial hospitals. Another key paper is "Scholarship funding through strategic reporting: the case of Koro Island Scholarship Fund," also with Brown, appearing in the International Journal of Nonprofit and Voluntary Sector Marketing (2015). She further contributed as interviewer to the 2018 "High and Cliff" podcast series by the School of Arts and Sciences, hosting discussions on topics ranging from history to ecology.