You team with this eminent author/researcher in original research.
Professor Erica Austin, Distinguished Professor of Communications, offers you opportunities to participate in original research projects that have practical and scholarly significance. Her undergraduate public-relations students work to develop strategic communications plans for non-profit and university-related clients. She also collaborates with her graduate students on publishable research projects.
“Learning together to create new knowledge that benefits the community is extremely challenging and rewarding for all of us,” says Austin.
Dr. Austin is widely published on media literacy, family communication, and health issues. When she’s not in the classroom, Austin researches topics such as political socialization, health communication campaigns, how family communication patterns affect children’s approaches to the media, and children’s attention to television. Her current research program focuses on how individuals, especially children and adolescents, juxtapose media information and real-world impressions to make decisions about what is real, right, and important.
Austin has served as an advisor to the federal government and numerous national organizations on media literacy issues. She is the recipient of the 2001 Krieghbaum Under-40 Award from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication. Dr. Austin is the co-author (with WSU Professor Bruce E. Pinkleton) of Strategic Public Relations Management: Planning and Managing Effective Communication Programs (2001).
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