Study level
Vacation research experience scheme
Faculty/School
QUT Business School
Topic status
Completed.
Supervisors
Associate Professor Amisha Mehta
- Position
- Associate Professor
- Division / Faculty
- QUT Business School
Dr Lisa Tam
- Position
- Lecturer
- Division / Faculty
- QUT Business School
Overview
By connecting a student to real world industry professionals, this project aims to simultaneously build student networks and explore an applied research problem around how public relations professionals make decisions about optimal strategies and tactics in campaigns.
The student and research team will meet to co-design the research and undertake the following activities:
- Review award-winning public relations campaigns using a semantic and relational network analysis tool to identify trends and patterns in strategies and tactics
- interview the public relations professionals behind these campaigns to explore how they made decisions about strategies and tactics
- report on findings to support academic and industry needs.
The student will:
- Build capabilities in semantic and relational network analysis, a practice that is relevant in both academic and industry settings
- build networks with leading public relations professionals
- collect and analyse data found in public relations award submissions and via interviews with professionals
- report on findings via a blog and academic publication.
Proposed start date: 6 November 2017
Proposed end date: 31 January 2018.
Contact
Contact the supervisor for more information.