Katya Quigley will join AFTRS Radio at the end of this month as the newly appointed Radio Lecturer.
 
AFTRS Head of Radio Lisa Sweeney says Katya comes directly to the school from a nine year stint in frontline media production, primarily at the ABC.
 
“Her love of radio began as a child when she spent countless school holidays tinkering in the AFTRS studios and watching her late father Bryon Quigley, who was head the Radio Division in the early 80s,” says Lisa.
 
Her first foray into announcing was at Newcastle’s 2NUR where she presented a late night independent music program.
 
She then studied Arts/Law at the University of NSW, graduating in 1999.  Katya has worked as a solicitor, policy advisor and strategic communications advisor across State and Federal Government departments.
 
Radio’s magnetic appeal saw Katya take a dramatic change in career direction, and she completed the Graduate Diploma in Commercial Radio at AFTRS in 2005.
 
Katya Quigley is an experienced producer and presenter, having fronted Mornings at ABC Alice Springs and ABC Mid North Coast. She was also a researcher and journalist at ABC TV’s Media Watch.
 
Her reputation for tenacity and authentic storytelling is demonstrated in her coverage of indigenous issues in the Northern Territory and the expansion of the coal seam gas industry on the Mid North Coast of NSW.  

Quigley will begin work later this month in the position that was recently advertised on radioinfo’s jobs page.  She will hit  the ground running as Radio launches three new courses in 2015 – The Advanced Diploma of Radio, Diploma of Digital Content (Radio) and Core Radio Skills.
 
She replaces Jen Oldershaw, who has left the school after successfully teaching and mentoring many of the current radio professionals working in the industry today.