Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences

PhD (City University, London)

Associate Professor Jake Lynch, PhD (City University, London) isAssociate Professor in the Discipline of Sociology and Criminology.

Jake has spent the past 20 years researching, developing, teaching and training in Peace Journalism. For this work, he was recognised with the award of the 2017 Luxembourg Peace Prize, by the Schengen Peace Foundation.

Scholarly publications include several books and over 50 book chapters and refereed articles. Jake’s latest monograph, A Global Standard for Reporting Conflict (published in the Routledge Research in Journalism series, in 2014), presents results from his Australian Research Council Linkage Project, with partnership by the International Federation of Journalists and the aid agency, Act for Peace. It includes data from original fieldwork in Australia, the Philippines, South Africa and Mexico.

Since 1999 up to the present day, Jake has devised and led training workshops in peace journalism for professional editors and reporters, and in media skills for peace workers, in many countries including Afghanistan, Fiji, Nepal, Indonesia and the Philippines. Clients have included the British Council, Council of Europe, DANIDA, GTZ, SIDA, NORAD, the Olof Palme Memorial Fund and the Australian Commonwealth government.

Jake served for nine years on the Executive Committee of the Sydney Peace Foundation, and for two years as Secretary General of the International Peace Research Association, having organised its Sydney conference in 2010. He has held research fellowships at Cardiff University and Bristol University, in the UK, and at the School of Communication of the University of Johannesburg, in South Africa.

He takes up regular invitations to give keynote lectures, with recent destinations including Istanbul, Beirut, Seoul and Colombo, as well as a special presentation to the Supplementary Human Dimension Meeting of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, in Vienna.

Before taking up an academic post, Jake enjoyed a 20-year career in journalism. He was a Political Correspondent for Sky News, at Westminster, and the Sydney Correspondent for the Independent newspaper, culminating in a role as an on-air presenter (anchor) for BBC World Television News.