education
2015 – 2019 PhD (Media & Communication), RMIT University
2011 – 2014 Master of Arts (Media), La Trobe University
2011 Certificate IV in Training & Assessment (TAE), Swinburne University
2008 Graduate Diploma of Film & TV (Documentary), VCA, University of Melbourne
2004 – 2007 Master of Applied Linguistics, Monash University
1998 – 2000 Bachelor of Fine Art (Photography), VCA, University of Melbourne
academic publications
Books
Munro, K Listening to Immersive Media, Palgrave MacMillan (forthcoming)
Rogers, C, Munro, K, Gough-Brady, C, Burke, L, (Ed.) 2023, Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory, Intellect.
Book Chapters
Munro, K 2023, Acclimations: Speculations on Making Documentary in the Climate Emergency. In Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory, Intellect.
Rogers, C, Munro, K, Burke, L and Gough-Brady, C 2023, ‘Thinking through Making in Non-Fiction Film’ In Constructions of the Real: Intersections of Documentary-based Film Practice and Theory, Intellect.
Munro, K 2023, ‘Live Documentary Performance: Precarious Forms for Uncertain Times’ In Documentary film cultures in the age of #COVID-19. Ed. Dafydd Sills-Jones and Pietari Kaapa, Peta Lang (forthcoming)
Munro, K 2021, ‘Transmedia Activism and future dreaming: Big hART’s Yijala Yala’ In Transmedia in Asia Pacific. Ed. C Lam and F Gillardi, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Munro, K 2018, ‘From voice to listening: becoming implicated in multi-linear documentary’ In Critical Distance in Documentary Media, ed. G Cammaer, B Fitzpatrick and B Lessard, London: Palgrave Macmillan.
Munro, K 2017, ‘Hybrid Practices and Voice-making in Contemporary Female Documentary Film’ in Female Authorship and the Documentary Image: Theory, Practice, Aesthetics. Ed. A Backman Rogers & B Ulfsdotter. Edinburgh University Press.
Journal Articles
Munro, K and Morrison, K 2022 ‘Bodies in space: XR documentary in Australia’ Studies in Documentary Film, DOI: 10.1080/17503280.2022.2135166
Munro, K 2019 ‘Listening as practice: a month in Ólafsfjörður,’ Qualitative Research Journal, Vol. 19 Issue: 1, pp.9-17, https://doi.org/10.1108/QRJ-D-17-00022
Munro, K and Bilbrough, P 2018 ‘An ecology of relationships tensions and negotiations in documentary filmmaking practice as research,’ Media Practice and Education, 19:3, 256-269, DOI: 10.1080/25741136.2018.1511361
Munro, K, Murray, P and Taylor, S 2019, ‘Diarology for beginners articulating playful practice through artless methodology,’ New Writing: the international journal for the practice and theory of creative writing. DOI: 10.1080/14790726.2019.1566367
Taylor, S, Munro, K and Murray, P 2019, ‘Advanced Diarology: mortification, materiality and meaningmaking,’ Peripheral Visions Special Issue of TEXT, no. 57 October 2019.
Munro, K 2017, ‘The essay film as address: the epistle as relational act,’ New Cinemas, vol. no.16
Munro, K 2017, ‘Rethinking first-person testimony through a vitalist account of documentary participation,’ Frames Cinema Journal, Issue 12.
publications: other
Munro, K 2023, ‘Decolonising Practice-Based Documentary’. Media Practice Education (book review).
Munro, K 2022, ‘Kill the Documentary: A Letter to Filmmakers, Students and Scholars’. Studies in Documentary Film (book review).
Munro, K 2022, ‘Adelaide Dreams Electric: Immersive Possibilities at Adelaide Fringe’, Metro Magazine, no. 214
Munro, K 2022, ‘Every Minute Counts: TikTok Comes of Age in Scattered’, Metro Magazine, no. 211.
Munro, K 2022, ‘A new exhibition explores invisible data, from facial algorithms to satellite tracking as a return to Country’, The Conversation, 22 February, 2022.
Munro, K 2022, ‘Interactive documentary: theory and debate’, Studies in Documentary Film, DOI: 10.1080/17503280.2022.2039429 (book review).
Munro, K 2020, ‘Documenting reality?’ ACMI Website
Munro, K 2020, ‘The Unintended Consequences of Errol Morris’s The Thin Blue Line,’ ACMI Website
Munro, K 2020, ‘Rummaging Through the Rubble: Creative Constraints in Prototype’s Rapid Response Care Package’ Metro Magazine, no. 206
Munro, K 2020, ‘Making Visible: Out Here, Love Bites and LGBTIQA+ Documentary on the Small Screen’ Metro Magazine, no. 206
Murray, P, Munro, K, Taylor, S 2020, ‘Note to self: a pandemic is a great time to keep a diary, plus 4 tips for success,’ The Conversation, 31st August, 2020
Munro, K 2020, ‘Envisioned Presences: Future Dreaming, Passenger and the Continuing Evolution of Virtual Reality’ Metro Magazine, no. 204
Munro, K 2020, ‘Watch List: Melbourne WebFest 2019 and the Continued Rise of Web Series’ Metro Magazine, no.203
Munro, K 2019, ‘Destructive pasts and hopeful futures: the simulated environment in Did you ask the river? and Awavena’ Metro Magazine, no. 201
Munro, K 2019, ‘The feeling of being somewhere: VR at MIFF 2018’ Metro Magazine, no. 199.
Munro, K 2018, ‘The Beehive, a documentary in 1,344 versions, explores the unsolved murder of Juanita Nielsen’, The Conversation, 18 September, 2018.
Munro, K 2018, ‘i-Docs as ‘Contagions of Hope’, Studies in Documentary Film. Published online, 17 May, 2018.
Brasier, H, Hansen, N, Munro, K and Weidle, F (eds) 2018, Docuverse: Approaches to Expanding Documentary
Munro, K 2017, ‘Documentary and Technology: A Committed Relationship?’ Metro Magazine, no.193.