Sian Tomkinson
sian.tomkinson@research.uwa.edu.au
Publications
Continuum, Journal of Media & Cultural Studies
 Tomkinson, S & Harper, T 2015, ‘The position of women in video game culture: Perez
and Day’s Twitter Incident’, Continuum: Journal of Media & Cultural Studies, vol. 29,
no. 4, pp. 617-634.
Professional Experience
Limina: A Journal of Historical and Cultural Studies
The University of Western Australia – Perth, Australia
Web Editor
March 2015 - January 2016
 Updating the Limina website, which utilises Squiz MySource Matrix, and also a
member of the Collective.
The University of Western Australia
School of Social Sciences
In 2014 I was nominated for an Excellence in Teaching Award.
Tutor – Communication and Mass Media
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July 2014 – October 2014
July 2015 – October 2015
This second-year unit focuses on key research methods and concepts from
communication and media studies.
Facilitated students to discuss the effect of media in shaping communicative
discourses and critically engage with the notion of media effects.
Facilitated students to apply various theories, concepts, and discourse analytic tools
to analyse mass media texts, particularly advertising and journalism.
Tutor – Cultures, New Media and Communication
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July 2014 – October 2014
July 2015 – October 2015
This first-year unit focuses on how various media can influence representational,
communicative, and social practice.
Facilitated students to analyse and evaluate the quality and quantity of information.
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Facilitated students to investigate positive and negative accounts of new media and
forms of community.
Tutor – Human Technology: Debating Communication
February 2014 – May 2014
 This first-year unit focuses on the key methodologies and theoretical traditions of
communication studies.
 Facilitated students to identify and critically assess the implications of changing
communication forms and technologies across history.
 Facilitated students to critically engage with interdisciplinarity.
Centre for English Language Teaching
Teacher’s Assistant
March 2012 – June 2012
 Utilised Japanese language skills to facilitate students understanding of course
material.
 Assisted students understanding of reading, writing, and speaking tasks.
 Assisted as a supervisor on class excursions.
Education
The University of Western Australia
PhD Candidate
February 2015 – Present
 Working thesis title Affect, Gender, and Play: why ‘women are too hard to animate’.
 Research areas include communications theory, feminism, video game theory,
Deleuze and Guattari, gendering, flow, affect.
Honours (H1)
February 2013 – October 2013
 Honours dissertation titled “The ability of video game aesthetics to enable flow: In
defence of game-derived happiness’.
Bachelor of Arts (Communication Studies)
February 2010 – November 2012
 Double major in Communication Studies and Japanese.
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