Jake Lynch

Director, Centre for Peace & Conflict Studies, University of Sydney

Jake Lynch is Associate Professor and Director of the Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies at the University of Sydney. He is a former professional journalist, having worked as a Political Correspondent for Sky News and the Sydney Correspondent for the London Independent newspaper. He was also a reporter and presenter for BBC World TV, for which he presented over a thousand half-hour news bulletins.

His main research interest is in Peace Journalism. He is the author of several books, and numerous scholarly articles and book chapters, on the subject; as well as innumerable articles in public media on issues of peace and conflict. He is Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association.

Experience

2007–present

Associate Professor and Director, Centre for Peace and Conflict Studies, University of Sydney

Education

2008

City University, London, PhD/Journalism

Publications

2011

Expanding Peace Journalism (co-edited, with Ibrahim Shaw & Robert Hackett), Sydney University Press, Sydney
2010

Reporting Conflict: New Directions in Peace Journalism (with Johan Galtung), University of Queensland Press, St Lucia
2008

Debates in Peace Journalism, Sydney University Press, Sydney
2005

Peace Journalism (with Annabel McGoldrick), Hawthorn Press, Stroud, UK

Grants and Contracts

2010

A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict

Role:

Chief Investigator

Funding Source:

Australian Research Council

Research Areas

Communication And Media Studies Not Elsewhere Classified (200199)

Honours

Secretary General, International Peace Research Association (elected 2010)