Doctoral Project

Ray is currently enrolled as a part-time doctoral student at Charles Sturt University, researching towards a PhD. The provisional title of his thesis is The ScreenSound Syndrome: repositioning a cultural icon and takes as its basis a case study: the context and consequences of the re-branding of Australia’s National Film and Sound Archive as ScreenSound Australia in 1999, and the larger issues which arise from that experience. Literature research and collation of source documents are currently in progress, and field research will follow.