PR Conversations with Thomas Stoeckle on PR for the 21st century
With the rapid changes in the communications landscape, including the technologies that enable/mediate communication, the skillset and job description of the PR practitioner is often in focus. More technical skills are in demand and more focus is on measurement and evaluation (so research and critical…
Lessons from the Romanian #rezist protests – online coverage
At the end of July, Dr Darren G. Lilleker (from Bournemouth University) and I have edited andlaunched an online publication focusing on the Romanian #rezist protests. In an effort to incentivise reading, we have also shared the report widely but also published several separate articles…
OUT NOW: #rezist – Romania’s 2017 anti-corruption protests
The beginning of 2017 brought attention to Romania and its street protests against corruption. What started for me as a “watching the news unfold” exercise turned quickly into many questions that I could not answer on my own. This is how the idea of…
New publication: ‘PESO’ media strategy shifts to ‘SOEP’
The first academic article reflecting on the results from the first Asia-Pacific Communication Monitor research which I coordinated last year has been now published. Published with Jim Macnamara, unhealthy May Lwin and Ansgar Zerfass in Public Relations Review, the article reveals a major shift from the traditional PESO model of…
Beyond the PhD life: guest blog post for Warwick Uni
Some of my recent thoughts on how to succeed in academia were published on PhD Life, a blog ran by Ana Kedves, a second year PhD researcher at Research Exchange, University of Warwick. It all started with a tweet seeking female academics to share their…