Catriona Bonfiglioli is a senior lecturer in Media Studies in the School of Communication in the Faculty of Design and Society at UTS.
Catriona is the JERAA/ANZCA Anne Dunn Scholar 2021 https://jeraa.org.au/dr-catriona-bonfiglioli-is-the-2021-anne-dunn-scholar-2/

Catriona has led funded research demonstrating that: individual responsibility dominates obesity news, sweet drinks news sends mixed health messages, industry accountability is neglected, large people are stigmatised by media, and news contributes to genetic determinism. She has collaborated with scholars from Monash and the University of Sydney investigating inactivity in the news, negative framing of cyclists, and audience responses to The Biggest Loser.

As the lead chief investigator, Catriona led a successfully completed ARC Discovery investigating the media life cycle of obesity, PA, and inactivity (CIA, DP1096251). Catriona was CIA on UTS ECR Grant (#2009001198 ‘Do Australian news and reality television programs construct overweight and obese people as the 'other'?’) and a co-investigator on NHMRC grant ‘Calling the tune? Investigating corporate influences on media reporting of health.’ (ID632840). Catriona has collaborated on research projects funded by the UTS Teaching and Learning Development Fund, the Australian Centre for Independent Journalism and UTS's Faculty of Arts and Social Sciences.

Catriona is an experienced HDR supervisor contributing to supervision for 12 completed PhDs and one MA(Res). Catriona is on supervisory panels of four PhDs underway. She has supervised 13 honours students. CI Bonfiglioli has served on the Public Health Association’s NSW Committee since 2001, the UTS Human Research Ethics Committee since 2011, and is a former President and Treasurer of the Australian Medical Writers Association. CI Bonfiglioli has given invited papers at Oxford, Amsterdam, Hamburg, Chicago, Santiago de Chile, Aarhus, and Bournemouth. 

Catriona has authored two research book chapters and led or co-authored more than 29 scholarly book chapters and research articles published in academic journals including the Journal of Health Communication, BMC Public Health, Journal of Medical Ethics, the Medical Journal of Australia, Australian Journalism Review, Academic Pediatrics, JMIR Pediatrics and Parenting, Applied Linguistics, and the ANZ Journal of Public Health. Catriona was awarded her PhD by the University of Sydney in 2005 for her analysis of genetic technologies in the Australian news media. In 2018, Catriona was a Visiting Professor at the Journalism School of the Pontificia Universidad Católica de Chile. In 2017, Catriona was a Visiting Scholar with the Erasmus Mundus Journalism, Media & Globalisation program at the University of Amsterdam. In 2013, Catriona was a Visiting Fellow at the Reuters Institute for the Study of Journalism, University of Oxford. In 1997, Catriona was the Reuter Foundation Fellow in Medical Journalism at Green College, Oxford.

Catriona is a qualified, trained and experienced journalist with a special interest in medical journalism. Catriona has worked for Australian Associated Press, Australian Doctor, The Oxford Times, and The Western Morning News.