Michelle Riedlinger joined QUT’s School of Communication in July 2020. Her research interests include the emerging environmental, agricultural and health research communication practices, roles for “alternative” science communicators, online fact checking and public engagement with science. Her research is informed by theories of media, cultural approaches to science, social identity, and pragmatic linguistics. She coordinates QUT’s Global Engagement Theme in the Global Journalism Innovation Lab and she has been a co-investigator on Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC)-funded projects investigating the online circulation of health research and online explanatory journalism. As a communication consultant, she has worked on projects focussed on climate variability, dryland salinity, ecology, catchment management, and river health. She has facilitated over two hundred communication training workshops for researchers. [Full Staff Profile]