Sandra Symons : Vice President

Sandra Symons is a Senior Lecturer in Journalism, Faculty of Arts & Social Sciences, at the University of Technology, Sydney (UTS). She has a MA in International Communications from Macquarie University, and is completing a PhD at the University of New South Wales on the use of confronting images in the press. Sandra is an award-winning writer and editor. Her work has appeared in Australia’s leading metropolitan newspapers and magazines. She worked as a foreign correspondent in San Francisco for Australian Consolidated Press and edited publications for Reader’s Digest and Australian Consolidated Press as well as organisations as diverse as the Australian Museum, News Limited, Hyatt Hotels, and the Royal Botanic Gardens, Sydney. She has been a contributing writer for or editor of several books: Wool in the Australian Imagination (Sydney: Historic Houses Trust, 1994), Convicts and The Australian Women’s Weekly Family Health Guide. She is a former executive officer of the Australian Society of Magazine Editors and served on the Australian Press Council for three terms from 1998. She is on the Organising Committee of the Centre for New Writing, UTS.