Welcome to Jetreg

Journalism Education and Trauma Research Group (JETREG) is a research infrastructure to respond to the body of research which shows that practising journalists are at risk for physical, emotional, moral and psychological injury due to exposure to traumatic events in the course of their career.

To address this problem, journalism educators have a role to play in providing a safe space for journalists to talk about work related trauma and to prepare young journalists to be aware of the problem and cope with it.

JETREG aims to explore trauma awareness among journalism educators and their attitudes to the inclusion of trauma literacy in journalism curriculum.

JETREG is comprised of a multidisciplinary team of researchers with expertise in a range of methods including systematic reviews, mixed methods for research, evaluation and implementation.

Our objectives are:

• Share insights and learning from the trauma awareness survey of journalism educators and attitudes to the inclusion of resilience training in journalism education.

• Share insights and learning from previous studies on journalism and trauma – where there are evidence of trauma and why?

• Use these insights to design a module in trauma literacy/resilience training in journalism education.

• Offer opportunities through research seminars, symposia, and conferences to discuss and consider options and solutions that enable us to promote resilience training in journalism education.

• Conduct a 5-year resilience training in journalism education longitudinal study (mixed methods approach) and publish the result.

• Connect a community of journalism educators, practising journalists and media organisations, both nationally and internationally, that can aid and support each other to build resilience among journalists.