Michael Real Award

The Michael Real Award has been established to recognize Royal Roads' MA students graduating from the Professional Communication or Intercultural and International Communication programs in the School of Communication and Culture.

Michael Real is a celebrated scholar in the areas of media and culture and a professor emeritus of Communication in the School of Communication and Culture at Royal Roads University. In respect for his legacy, each year one graduating student will be recognized with this award for having presented a thesis or research study demonstrating excellence of scholarship in either written or non-traditional form.

Candidates will be put forward by facutly in the School of Communication and Culture, with the final nominee selected by the School DIrector and endorsed by the Dean. Excellence will be determined by the degree to which the thesis or research study demonstrates: critical professionalism; innovative and systems thinking; integration; leading change; leading learning; valuing diversity; fostering interdependence; and scholarship.

Awarded in November. All students who graduated since last November are included in consideration.