The faculty within the School of Communication and Culture spend between 20 and 60% of their time conducting research.
Along with Phillip Vannini (CRC in Learning and Innovation) we have several prominent and award winning researchers within the school focusing on a broad range of areas within the university’s research themes:
Sustainable communities
- Phillip Vannini (CRC): Social & Cultural geography, Mobilities
- Jennifer Walinga: Sport and Values Education, Social Innovation, Sport and Cultural Development
- Virginia McKendry: Cultural Studies of Political Discourse; History and Communication; Ethical Spaces for Indigenous/Settler Engagement
- Zhenyi Li: Intercultural Communication
- David Black: Policy, Politics and Law, Communication Theory, Social Media
- Juana Du: Organizational Cultural and Knowledge Sharing
- Chaseten Remillard: Homelessness, Environmental Communication, Visual Communication, Canadian Identity, Gender & the City
Thriving organizations
- Virginia McKendry: Communication and Complex Adaptive Human Systems
- Zhenyi Li: Health Communication, Intercultural Communication
- Jennifer Walinga: Intuitive Decision Making, Creativity for Sustainable Practice, Stress Transformation and Thriving
- Juana Du: Intercultural Communication and Training
Innovative learning
- Phillip Vannini: Public Ethnography, Knowledge Mobilization, Multi modal research
- Jennifer Walinga: Insight Problem Solving, Values Education through Sport
- Juana Du: Organizational Learning and Innovation in MNE's
Other projects
- Roads to Research
- Ethnography, Media, Arts and Culture (EMAC)
- Learning Symposiums
- Zhenyi Li Kelly Award
- Learning and Teaching Model with Jennifer Walinga
- Alumni Awards