Creative Cultures and Communication (C3)
Welcome to the
C3
The Creative Cultures and Communication group (C3), formerly Centre for Professional and Public Communication - CPPC, is a multi-disciplinary research group within the Division of Education, Arts and Social Sciences. Members of the group include staff from the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages and associates of the University who contribute to its research and teaching programs, as well as post-graduate students undertaking research MA and PhD / DCOMM programs. The prestigious Donald Dyer scholarship in Public Relations is also available to prospective students undertaking research in Public Relations.
As part of the multidisciplinary approach to research, (C3) also has an additional research group which focuses on Cultures of Conflict. The Cultures of Conflict research group focuses on writing and representations of war, peace and reconciliation from an interdisciplinary perspective, drawing on inter alia sociology, literary studies, children's literature, cultural and communication studies, and journalism. It was established in 2006 as a concentration within School of Communication's C3 Research Group. It has held three successful Symposiums with key notes and papers delivered by UniSA staff and scholars from interstate. The product of these has been the recently published Writings of War monograph (LythrumPress, 2008).
The
C3 is involved in a wide range of research, consultancy and
teaching in
- Media, culture and public communication
- Professional writing and communication
- Multimedia and information management
- Journalism
- Public Relations
- English studies and English language, education and work
- Communication in organisations, and in professional and community contexts.
(photo right): Research staff: Sieta van der Hoeven, Paul Skrebels and Claire Woods launch book 'For all Time: Critical issues in teaching Shakespeare'
Staff in the Creative Cultures and Communication (C3) research group teach in all the undergraduate and postgraduate programs within the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages.
Seven of the staff have received Awards for Teaching Excellence.
(photo right):
Research graduate, Olaf Krueger,
Doctor of Communication program, completed his thesis on:
The virtual communication department: a practical work situation for journalists
and communication professionals?
(photo far right):
UniSA's postdoctoral research associate in health sciences,
Dr Katrina Jaworski has been awarded the Ian Davey Research Thesis Prize for
the most outstanding 2007 PhD thesis, The gender of suicide.
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Completed at the School of Communication, International Studies and Languages
(formerly School of Communication), Dr Jaworski's thesis looks at how
gender plays an important part in the way that society understands suicide.
Dr Jaworski's thesis was supervised by Director Research in the School of
Communication, International Studies and Languages (formerly School of
Communication),
Dr Vicki Crowley, and passed without any changes. Dr Jaworski paid tribute
to Dr Crowley, who encouraged her work to be interdisciplinary, to be rigorous
and to use different theoretical tools in conducting her research.