Patricia Edgar

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Patricia Edgar
The University of Melbourne
Occupations
  • Author
  • television producer
  • educator
  • media scholar
SpouseDon Edgar

Patricia May Edgar AM is an Australian author, television producer, educator and media scholar, best known as the founding director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation.

Early life and education

Edgar was born in

Mildura, Victoria, and moved to California in the 1960s with her husband, author and social researcher Don Edgar) and their two children to study for an MA in Communication at Stanford University. On their return to Australia, Edgar joined the staff of La Trobe University as the inaugural Head of the Centre for the Study of Media and Communication.[citation needed
]

She has a BA and a BEd from the University of Melbourne, a Master of Arts from Stanford University, and a PhD from La Trobe University.[1]

She introduced the first courses on film and television production and cinema studies at an Australian university. At La Trobe she also completed a

PhD.[2]

Career

Edgar served on several government committees, such as the Australian Broadcasting Control Board which she was appointed to by

Film Victoria, the Council of the Australian Film and Television School, the Victorian Government's Board of CIRCIT Ltd (Centre for International Research on Communication and Information Technologies) and the Victorian Post-Secondary Education Commission. Edgar also served as an Associate Member of the Australian Broadcasting Tribunal's Inquiry into Violence on Television from 1988 to 1989.[1]

Egar was deputy chair of the

Australian Film Finance Corporation between 1988 and 1995. She also chaired the ACMI Foundation from 2004 to 2006, and is the founding chair of the Breast Cancer Network of Australia, of which she served as chair from 1998 to 2009.[1]

She was the founding director of the Australian Children's Television Foundation (ACTF).

Touch the Sun, Winners, Kaboodle, Crash Zone, Li'l Elvis and the Truckstoppers, Noah and Saskia, Yolngu Boy, and Kahootz.[1]

In 1995 she formed and hosted the first World Summit on Television and Children. This summit was held in Melbourne, Australia and was attended by more than 600 delegates from 70 countries around the world. She is currently[when?] deputy chair of the World Summit on media for Children Foundation, but served as chair for seventeen years.[citation needed]

Recently, she became an ambassador for the National Ageing Research Institute.[citation needed]

Publications

Edgar is the author of many books. Much of her research and writing has focused on children and television. Her books about television and the media include Children and Screen Violence, Under Five in Australia, Media She (with Hilary McPhee), The Politics of the Press and recently a memoir Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television, which prompted Phillip Adams to write "I would regard Patricia Edgar as a sort of human tank. Patricia is a sort of Centurion in her abilities to kick down doors and push walls over. She is annoying, irritating, relentless, drives people mad, but she gets things done".[citation needed]

Books

Reports

Further Selected Publications

  • The Unknown Audience, Patricia Edgar and Ursula Callus, Centre for the Study of Educational Communication and Media, 1979
  • Sex Type Socialization and television Family Comedy Programmes, Patricia Edgar, Centre for the Study of Educational Communication and Media
  • A Survey of Audio Visual Facilities in Universities in the USA, Canada, United Kingdom and Australia, Patricia Edgar, Centre for the Study of Educational Communication and Media

Recognition and honours

In 1994 the

honoris causa).[1]

In 1986, she was appointed

Member of the Order of Australia for her services to children's television and the media.[1]

In 1988, she was a finalist at the Bicentennial BHP Awards for the Pursuit of Excellence.[1]

In 1992 on World Communications Day she was given the Award of the Archbishop of Sydney Citation.[1]

She was a finalist in the Victorian of the Year Awards for 1995. In the same year, she was awarded for her outstanding contribution to children at the World Summit on Television and Children.[1]

In 1996, she was given the Award of the Archbishop of Sydney Citation.[1]

She was awarded the Australian College of Education medal in 1998 and an Achiever Award from the Committee for Melbourne in 2001. She received both of these awards as recognition for her exceptional contribution to using the medium of television as a form of education.[1]

In 2001, the ACTF was awarded the Youth TV Prize at the 18th International Scientific Audio-visual Conference - Image and Science in Paris as recognition for the quality of work the ACTF had produced.[1]

Edgar was named on the Victorian Honour Roll of Women, which recognises women of achievement that have made a difference in Victoria or internationally.[1]

In 2002, the Australian Film Institute presented her with the Australian Film Institute Longford Life Achievement Award, the highest accolade the AFI can bestow.[1]

In 2003, the Governor General awarded her with the Centenary Medal to mark her contribution "to children's television education programs".[1]

In 2007, she was awarded the Dromkeen Medal for her role in advancing children's literature.[5]

References

  1. ^
    OCLC 224730166
    .
  2. ^ a b Keys, Wendy: Not in front of the kids Archived 22 October 2009 at the Wayback Machine, The Australian, 1 November 2006.
  3. ^ "One Plus One". Australian Broadcasting Corporation. 15 November 2013. Archived from the original on 10 June 2015. Retrieved 16 November 2013.
  4. ^ Bloodbath: A Memoir of Australian Television Archived 22 July 2008 at the Wayback Machine, Melbourne University Publishing.
  5. ^ Dromkeen Medal Citation 2007, Scholastic Corporation, 2007.

External links

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