Associate Professor Michelle Phillipov

• Journals

  Year	Citation
  2025	Phillipov, M., Buddle, E., McLean, S., & Ankeny, R. (2025). What’s in my mince? Reader responses to news coverage about novel plant-based protein foods. Food, Culture, and Society, 28(1), 41-59. DOI
  2023	Phillipov, M., Luckman, S., & Loyer, J. (2023). Agile producers and consumer-saviours: Discourses of resilience and responsibility in Australian media coverage of artisanal food and craft. Media International Australia, 14 pages. DOI
  2022	Phillipov, M. (2022). Loving neoliberalism? Digital labour and aspirational work on streaming food TV. Communication Research and Practice, 8(2), 152-165. DOI Scopus1
  2022	Phillipov, M. (2022). Work placements in the media and creative industries: Discourses of transformation and critique in an era of precarity. Arts and Humanities in Higher Education, 21(1), 3-20. DOI Scopus11 WoS7
  2020	Luckman, S., & Phillipov, M. (2020). 'I'd (still) rather be a cyborg': the artisanal dispositif and the return of the (domestic) goddess. International Journal of Cultural Studies, 23(4), 458-474. DOI Scopus8 WoS3
  2020	Farmery, A. K., van Putten, I. E., Phillipov, M., & McIlgorm, A. (2020). Are Media Messages to Consume More Under-Utilized Seafood Species Reliable?. Fish and Fisheries, 21(4), 844-855. DOI Scopus19 WoS12
  2020	Haas, B., Phillipov, M., & Gale, F. (2020). Media representations of seafood certification in Australia: Mobilising sustainability standards to attack or defend the value of an industry. Marine Policy, 120, 7 pages. DOI Scopus12 WoS8
  2020	Phillipov, M., & Gale, F. (2020). Celebrity chefs, consumption politics and food labelling: Exploring the contradictions. Journal of Consumer Culture, 20(4), 400-418. DOI Scopus12 WoS4
  2019	Phillipov, M., & Loyer, J. (2019). In the wake of the supermarket ‘milk wars’: media, farmers and the power of pastoral sentimentality. Discourse, Context and Media, 32, 100346-1-100346-8. DOI Scopus9 WoS2
  2019	Ankeny, R., Phillipov, M., & Bray, H. (2019). Celebrity Chefs and New Meat Consumption Norms: Seeking Questions, Not Answers. M/C Journal: A Journal of Media and Culture, 22(2).
  2018	Lewis, T., & Phillipov, M. (2018). Food/media: eating, cooking, and provisioning in a digital world. Communication Research and Practice, 4(3), 207-211. DOI Scopus26 WoS13
  2018	Lewis, T., & Phillipov, M. (2018). Special Issue. Food/Media: Cooking, Eating, and Provisioning in a Digital World.. Communication Research and Practice, 4(3), 207-323.
  2017	Phillipov, M. (2017). Becoming food, eating media. Geoforum, 84, 241-242. DOI Scopus3 WoS2
  2017	Phillipov, M., & Goodman, M. (2017). The celebrification of farmers: celebrity and the new politics of farming. Celebrity Studies, 8(2), 346-350. DOI Scopus10 WoS9
  2016	Phillipov, M. (2016). 'Helping Australia grow': supermarkets, television cooking shows, and the strategic manufacture of consumer trust. Agriculture and Human Values, 33(3), 587-596. DOI Scopus15 WoS12
  2016	Phillipov, M. (2016). The new politics of food: television and the media/food industries. Media International Australia, 158(1), 90-98. DOI Scopus22 WoS13
  2016	Phillipov, M. (2016). Escaping to the country: media, nostalgia, and the new food industries. Popular Communication, 14(2), 111-122. DOI Scopus17 WoS9
  2016	Phillipov, M. (2016). Using media to promote artisan food and beverages: insights from the television industry. British Food Journal, 118(3), 588-602. DOI Scopus11 WoS5
  2015	Phillipov, M. (2015). Food TV: An effective strategy for food and beverage marketing?. Food Australia, 67(4), 31-34. Scopus1
  2015	Phillipov, M. (2015). Constructing Reality: My Kitchen Rules and Reality TV Cooking Shows. Screen Education, 79, 88-93.
  2014	Phillipov, M., & Hunt, R. (2014). 'Nanna Style': The Countercultural Politics of Retro Femininities. M/C Journal, 17(6), online.
  2014	Nash, M., & Phillipov, M. (2014). Introduction to the special issue: Eating like a 'man': Food and the performance and regulation of masculinities. Women's Studies International Forum, 44(1), 205-208. DOI Scopus6 WoS6
  2014	Phillipov, M. (2014). Hamburgers of Devastation: The pleasures and politics of heavy metal cooking. International Journal of Community Music, 7(2), 259-272. DOI Scopus3 WoS1
  2013	Phillipov, M. (2013). Mastering obesity: MasterChef Australia and the resistance to public health nutrition. Media, Culture and Society, 35(4), 506-515. DOI Scopus16 WoS11
  2013	Phillipov, M. (2013). Resisting Health: Extreme Food and the Culinary Abject. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 30(5), 377-390. DOI Scopus7 WoS5
  2013	Phillipov, M. (2013). In Defense of Textual Analysis: Resisting Methodological Hegemony in Media and Cultural Studies. Critical Studies in Media Communication, 30(3), 209-223. DOI Scopus37 WoS25
  2012	Phillipov, M. (2012). Communicating health risks via the media: What can we learn from masterchef Australia?. Australasian Medical Journal, 5(11), 593-597. DOI Scopus10 WoS5 Europe PMC4
  2010	Phillipov, M. (2010). 'Generic misery music'? Emo and the problem of contemporary youth culture. Media International Australia, 136(136), 60-70. DOI Scopus6 WoS3
  2009	Phillipov, M. (2009). “Just Emotional People”? Emo Culture and the Anxieties of Disclosure. M/C Journal, 12(5). DOI
  2006	Phillipov, M. (2006). Haunted by the Spirit of '77: Punk Studies and the Persistence of Politics. Continuum, 20(3), 383-393. DOI
  2006	Phillipov, M. (2006). 'None so Vile'? Towards an Ethics of Death Metal. Southern Review, 38(2), 74-85.
  2006	Phillipov, M. (2006). Self harm in Goth youth subculture: Study merely reinforces popular stereotypes [10]. British Medical Journal, 332(7551), 1215-1216. DOI Scopus10 WoS6 Europe PMC1

• Books

  Year	Citation
  2022	Phillipov, M. (2022). Digital food TV: The cultural place of food in a digital era. London, United Kingdom: Routledge. DOI
  2019	Phillipov, M., & Kirkwood, K. (Eds.) (2019). Alternative food politics: from the margins to the mainstream. London: Routledge. DOI Scopus4
  2019	Phillipov, M., & Kirkwood, K. (Eds.) (2019). Alternative food politics: from the margins to the mainstream. London: Routledge. DOI Scopus4
  2017	Phillipov, M. (2017). Media and food industries: The new politics of food. Cham, Switzerland: Palgrave Macmillan. DOI Scopus23
  2016	Phillipov, M. (2016). Fats A Global History. Reaktion Books.
  2012	Phillipov, M. (2012). Death Metal and Music Criticism Analysis at the Limits. Lexington Books.

• Book Chapters

  Year	Citation
  2021	Phillipov, M. (2021). Textual Analysis in Digital Food Studies: New Approaches to Old Methods. In J. Leer, & S. G. S. Krogager (Eds.), Research Methods in Digital Food Studies (pp. 15-27). Abingdon, Oxon, United Kingdom: Routledge.
  2019	Phillipov, M. (2019). Supermarkets, television cooking shows and integrated advertising: new approaches to strategic marketing and consumer engagement. In J. Byrom, & D. Medway (Eds.), Case studies in food retailing and distribution (pp. 255-265). Duxford, UK: Woodhead Publishing. DOI
  2019	Phillipov, M. (2019). Introduction: Thinking with media: margins, mainstreams and the media politics of food. In M. Phillipov, & K. Kirkwood (Eds.), Alternative food politics: from the margins to the mainstream (pp. 1-19). London, UK: Routledge. Scopus2
  2019	Phillipov, M., & Kirkwood, K. (2019). Supermarkets, celebrity chefs and private labels: the ‘alternative’ reframing of processed foods. In M. Phillipov, & K. Kirkwood (Eds.), Alternative food politics: from the margins to the mainstream (pp. 234-252). London, UK: Routledge.
  2016	Lewis, T., & Phillipov, M. (2016). A pinch of ethics and a soupçon of home cooking: Soft-selling supermarkets on food television. In P. Bradley (Ed.), Food, Media and Contemporary Culture: The Edible Image (pp. 105-124). Houndmills, Basingstoke: Palgrave MacMillan. DOI Scopus6
  2013	Phillipov, M. (2013). Regurgitating Septic Vomit of Chyme: Reflections on Metal Research as Both Insider and Outsider. In D. Thwaites (Ed.), Critical Animalia: A Decade Between Disciplines (pp. 65-71). Newcastle: Critical Animals.
  2013	Phillipov, M. (2013). Extreme Music for Extreme People? Norwegian Black Metal and Transcendent Violence. In T. Hjelm, K. Kahn-Harris, & M. LeVine (Eds.), Heavy Metal Controversies and Countercultures (pp. 152-165). Equinox Publishing (UK).
  2008	Phillipov, M. (2008). Metal 'Downunderground': Mapping the Terrain of the 'Great Southern Wasteland'. In S. Homan, & T. Mitchell (Eds.), Sounds of Then, Sounds of Now: Popular Music in Australia (pp. 215-230). Hobart: ACYS Publishing.

• Report for External Bodies

  Year	Citation
  2020	Phillipov, M., Farmery, A., & Gale, F. (2020). Media Messages About Sustainable Seafood: How Do Media Influencers Affect Consumer Attitudes (2017-131). Deakin, ACT: Fisheries Research and Development Corporation.
  2019	Phillipov, M., Farmery, A., Gale, F., Buddle, E., & Dehghan, E. (2019). Media Messages About Sustainable Seafood: How Do Media Influencers Affect Consumer Attitudes? Preliminary Results of Media Survey. (2017-131).
  2018	Ankeny, R., Bray, H., Phillipov, M., & Buddle, E. (2018). Building and Maintaining Community Trust in Australia's Primary Industries: Background Literature Review (PRJ-011478). The Food Values Research Group, The University of Adelaide.

• Internet Publications

  Year	Citation
  2015	Kirkwood, K., & Phillipov, M. (2015). What MasterChef Teaches Us About Food and the Food Industry. The Conversation.
  2014	Phillipov, M. (2014). Why Health Messages Fail: Lessons from the Australian Fast-Food Industry. Communication Currents.

Courses Summary

• Current Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2025	Principal Supervisor	Investigating the production and impact of environmental media in South Australia.	Master of Philosophy	Master	Full Time	Miss Hayley Polyichanin
  2024	Principal Supervisor	Listening through the Static: De-communalising Indian Partition History through Radio Broadcasts	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Utsha Roy
  2023	Principal Supervisor	A study on the impact of representation of gender in popular culture, specifically how females fans engage with female-centred and created media through recent online trends	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Lisa Julia Cooper
  2023	Co-Supervisor	Uncovering Ideological Messaging: A Framing Analysis of News Media Coverage of Poverty and Welfare in Australia	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Miss Shannon Rawlings
  2021	Co-Supervisor	Raw Feeding for Dogs in the UK and Australia: A Social and Ethical Cross-Cultural Comparison	Doctor of Philosophy under a Jointly-awarded Degree Agreement with	Doctorate	Full Time	Ms Natalia Ciecierska-Holmes
  2021	Principal Supervisor	A Critical Analysis of Class Struggle in Video Games: Investigating the Extent to Which Popular Media Depictions of Class Challenge Empire	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Sebastian Alexander Morrison
  2020	Principal Supervisor	Household Experiences of Reducing Waste: Moving Towards Circular Economy Futures	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Mrs Marisol Da Silva

• Past Higher Degree by Research Supervision (University of Adelaide)

  Date	Role	Research Topic	Program	Degree Type	Student Load	Student Name
  2020 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	Retrospectively Reading The Sopranos: Rethinking Complex Television for New Cultural Contexts	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Full Time	Mr Alexander Hudson Beare
  2019 - 2023	Principal Supervisor	End-user Experiences of Audio Description for Live Theatre: Complexities Beyond Practice	Doctor of Philosophy	Doctorate	Part Time	Ms Kari Seeley
  2018 - 2019	Co-Supervisor	South Australian Film-makers' Perspectives on Policies: State and Federal Film Policies and the Representation of Cultural Diversity in Australian Films	Master of Philosophy	Master	Part Time	Linh Chung

• Committee Memberships

  Date	Role	Committee	Institution	Country
  2024 - ongoing	Member	Academic Board	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2021 - ongoing	Member	School of Humanities Executive Committee	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2021 - 2023	Chair	Media Advisory Board	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2018 - 2020	Member	School of Humanities Research Committee	University of Adelaide	Australia
  2010 - 2018	Member	ANZCA Executive Committee	-	-

• Editorial Boards

  Date	Role	Editorial Board Name	Institution	Country
  2023 - ongoing	Member	Food and Society: New Directions book series	University of Bristol Press	United Kingdom
  2017 - 2023	Member	Communication Research and Practice	Taylor & Francis	United Kingdom

• Position: Associate Professor
• Phone: 83130513
• Email: michelle.phillipov@adelaide.edu.au
• Campus: North Terrace
• Building: Napier, floor 9
• Org Unit: School of Humanities