Rate My Professor Phillip McIntyre

Professor Phillip McIntyre is a Professor and Communication and Media scholar in the School of Creative Industries at the University of Newcastle. He earned his PhD in Media and Communication from Macquarie University in 2004, a Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies) Honours in 1994, and a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies from the University of Newcastle, along with a Graduate Certificate in Practice-Tertiary Teaching in 2005. Prior to his academic career, McIntyre accumulated over 25 years of professional experience in the Australian music industry as an APRA-registered songwriter, performing musician, record producer, audio engineer, manager, and music journalist. He interviewed prominent artists including David Bowie, John Fogerty, Paul Kelly, Don Walker, Daniel Johns, Mandawuy Yunupingu, and Tim Rogers, presented a local music radio program on 2NUR FM, produced music videos broadcast on ABC TV, and taught music industry courses at TAFE and WEA. His extensive publications include five books, 31 book chapters, 34 journal articles, 47 conference papers, 32 non-traditional research outputs, and 11 reports. McIntyre's research centers on creativity and cultural production, where he first applied a systems-based model unifying Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi's psychological approach with Pierre Bourdieu's sociological framework to explain how novel and valued products are created in the creative industries. He developed a new systems model of communication and pioneered Systems Centered Learning (SCL), an evidence-based pedagogical method for educating for creativity, implemented in programs in Australia and Singapore.

McIntyre led the ARC Linkage Grant-funded project 'Creativity and Cultural Production: An Applied Ethnographic Study of New Entrepreneurial Systems in the Creative Industries' in the Hunter region, which identified 10,000 workers in the sector contributing $1 billion to the local economy. He served as co-lead on another ARC Linkage Grant with Queensland University of Technology on creative hotspots and as Lead Chief Investigator on an ARC Discovery Grant exploring the history of popular music in Western Australia. Recognized as a founding voice in the field of songwriting studies, he delivered the inaugural keynote for the UK Arts and Humanities Research Council-funded Songwriting Studies Research Network and presented keynotes and public lectures at Goldsmiths College, University of Edinburgh, RMIT University, University of Copenhagen, Birmingham City University, and the Royal College of Music in Stockholm. His honors include the Vice-Chancellor's Excellence in Research Supervision Award and selection for the Emerging Research Leaders program in 2011. McIntyre was Head of Discipline for Communication and Media for nine years, Past-President of the Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (2016-2017), and holds editorial roles including the Journal of the Art of Record Production and Journal of Undergraduate Ethnography. He continues his creative practice, engineering music recordings and co-producing ABC Radio documentaries funded by the Regional Production Fund.