Gerard has an ongoing research interest in disability and media representation.

With Christopher Newell he has published a number of articles on this theme, including:

‘Crippling Paralympics?: Media, Disability and Olympism.' Media International Australia (2000) 97: 71-84

‘Uniting the Nation?: Disability, Stem Cells, and the Australian Media.' Disability & Society 19.1 (2004): 47-60

‘Imagining Diversity: Disability and Australian Film.' Proceedings of the Australian and New Zealand Communications Association (ANZCA) Designing Communication for Diversity conference. Queensland University of Technology, 9-11 July 2003.

With Kath Duncan, Gerard has authored ‘ "Something in Your Belly" — Fantasy, Disability and Desire in My One-Legged Dream Lover.' Disability Studies Quarterly 22 (2002). Special Issue on Sexuality and Disability.

See also Gerard's ‘Media Studies' Disability,' Media International Australia 108 (August 2003): 157-68.

With Christopher Newell, Gerard also guest-edited an issue of the Australian Journal of Communication on ‘Disability and Diversity' (vol. 30, no. 3, 2003), the introduction for which is available here.

Table of contents
Gerard Goggin and Christopher Newell, Introduction: Diversity as if disability mattered

Institutions
Joanne Travaglia and Hamish Robertson, Diversity and the promotion of disability issues in the Australian public health system
Ronnit Redman, Burning down the house: Conversations in law and disability
Linda Komesaroff, Deaf education and underlying structures of power in communication

Culture, identity, language
Helen Meekosha, Communicating the social: Discourses of disability and difference
Cassandra Loeser, The ecstasies of exchange: Reconfiguring hearing disabled masculine subjectivities in rave space
Rose Galvin, The function of language in the creation and liberation of disabled identities: From Saussure to contemporary strategies of government

Media and Representation
Andrew Jakubowicz, Wheeling free? Disability studies meets media studies and the Australian media
Stephen Tanner, Sandy Haswell, and Mandy Lake, Promoting the ideals of integration and diversity: Media coverage of Special Olympics Australia'
Des Power, Communicating about deafness: Deaf people in the Australian press
Phil Harper, Networking the Deaf nation

Epilogue
Cindy Gallois, Disability diversity matters