Anthony is the Law School' s Language and Learning Adviser. He has broad experience in teaching academic skills to students across the University of Melbourne, and within the Law School. He was involved the development of the online learning resources Postgraduate Essentials, and AIRport , and he has a keen interest in developing innovative approaches to supporting language and writing skills.
Anthony 's doctoral research was in communication and cultural studies.
As a member of the Law School' s Office for Teaching and Learning, Anthony 's role is to provide language and learning skills support to all students within the LLB, JD, MLM and RHD programs.
In addition to producing student resources, Anthony runs communication skills tutorials within Fundamentals of Common Law (FCL), language skills and writing workshops for graduate students, writing and communication skills workshops for undergraduate students, academic skills workshops for the JD and thesis writing workshops for RHD students.
Individual consultations are a core form of support, and can be arranged through the student centre (Mezzanine), MLM Office (Level 6) and the Research Office (Mezzanine).
Peer Reviewed Journal Articles
Larcome, W., McCosker, A. & O' Loughlin, K. (2007) ‘Supporting Education PhD and DEd Students to Become Confident Academic Writers: An Evaluation of Thesis Writers' Circles' Journal of University Teaching and Learning Practice , 4 (1), 55.
Larcombe, W. & McCosker, A. ‘Postgraduate Essentials: An Online Transition Program for Commencing PhD Students', in S. Milnes, G. Creswell, V. Rao & A. Bartlett (eds.) Critiquing and Reflecting: LAS Profession and Practice, (2005).
McCosker, A. (2008) ‘Blogging Illness; Recovering in Public', M / C Journal , 11 (6), 11 Dec. 2008 <http://journal.media-culture.org.au/index.php/mcjournal/article/view/104> .
McCosker, A. (2008) ‘Transformations of Pain: Erotic Encounters with Crash ' in Vivien Burr & Jeff Hearn (eds) Sex, Violence and the Body , Palgrave MacMillan, New York .
McCosker, A. ‘A Vision of Masochism in the Affective Pain of Crash ' (2005) Sexualities 8 (1) 30.
McCosker, A. ‘Suffering with Honour : The Visual Brutality of Realism in the Combat Film' (2005) 2 Scope: Online Journal of Film & TV Studies, <www.scope.nottingham.ac.uk/>
McCosker, A. ‘East Timor and the Politics of Bodily Pain; a Problematic Complicity' (2004) 18 (1) Continuum; Journal of Media and Cultural Studies 63.
McCosker, A. ‘Deleuze and the New Camera Consciousness' (2004) 10(2) Cultural Studies Review 224.
