Rob Layton on Clubhouse

Bio

Journalism Educator 📱| Ocean iPhoneographer🐬 | PhD scholar🎓

Hello, I was a career journalist before I moved into education, and now I teach mobile journalism and smartphone photography at Bond University on the Gold Coast, Australia. This work (well, before Covid, at least) takes me around the world as I train journalists in mobile content creation.

I specialise in using my phone in the ocean for video and photography, and this is foundational to my PhD project. In that, I combine two of my greatest passions – photography and surfing – in a series of video documentaries about Gold Coast surf culture.

I have won national awards for teaching and international awards for mobile filmmaking and photography.