Message from the Vice Chancellor
Macquarie University has a growing global reputation for innovation and excellence in teaching and learning as well as research. In the past decade the University has engaged in an energetic program of internationalisation, reaching out to touch the lives of students in the Asia-Pacific region and indeed in all five continents.
The seed of International Communication of a field of study at Macquarie University was planted when in 1991 when the Master's degree in International Communication was offered. The International Communication Program has blossomed in the past decade into the Department of International Communication (IC).
IC has a challenging program for international and local students, taught in an invigorating cross-cultural context. It has a strong research degree program, with 6 PhDs being awarded since 1994. A Bachelor's degree will be offered from 2002.
The Centre publishes The Journal of International Communication and is in the process of linking its alumni and media and communication researchers all over the world in a new network, the "Under-Represented Areas Network for Media and Communication Research" (URAN) with the objective of increasing participation of researchers from Asia-Pacific, Latin America, Africa and Eastern Europe in international media and communication research.
It is fitting that for the 10 year celebration we have a distinguished international civil servant, H. E. Jayantha Dhanapala, Under-Secretary General of the United Nations, speaking on a very topical issue, "Public Diplomacy and the International Security Regime". It is also fortuitous that the "Participatory Communication" issue of The Journal of International Communication can be launched on this august occasion.
Emeritus Professor Di Yerbury
Vice Chancellor & President
Macquarie University