can’t wait for this #FirstNations approaches to PR special issue of @prinquiry.bsky.social to be published - deadline for papers is Jan 2026

new research from CK (Kay) Weaver & Franzisca Weder shows professional communicators are claiming narrative agency in sustainability & change contexts, focusing on ethics in the act of storytelling and dialogicality [open access] journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

🌐✨ Meet the winners of IAMCR’s 2025 Decolonising the Digital Awards! From Indigenous language activism to feminist AI, these groundbreaking projects reimagine technology from the margins. 👉 Read more: iamcr.org/awards/decol... #IAMCR2025 #DecoloniseTheDigital #DigitalJustice

colours of Little India #IAMCR2025 Singapore 🇸🇬

heading to #IAMCR2025 and looking forward to catching up with colleagues 😊 ✈️

This AGL 1979 TV ad featuring contemporary dance led Belinda Smaill and I to investigate the promotion of ‘natural gas’ and the ways media & promotional industries shape understandings of energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rb2...

#PR scholars heading to #IAMCR25 - our journal editor @katefitch.bsky.social will be in Singapore so reach out if you would like to chat. We welcome critical, interpretative & interdisciplinary contributions on PR & society.

‘The Living Flame’ 🔥 by @katefitch.bsky.social & Belinda Smaill investigates the impact of promotional industries on environmental justice by analysing the promotion of ‘natural’ gas journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

This AGL 1979 TV ad featuring contemporary dance led Belinda Smaill and I to investigate the promotion of ‘natural gas’ and the ways media & promotional industries shape understandings of energy. www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Rb2...

"The gas industry knows fossil fuels are not renewable, but it continues to try and hoodwink Australians into thinking gas is good for us.” www.abc.net.au/news/2025-06...

Editorial: ‘ PR & Social Justice: Interdisciplinary Reflections & Future Directions on the Impact of PR & Promotional Communication on Human Rights & Social Inequalities’ by E.Ciszek, Lee Edwards @katefitch.bsky.social & Jenny Hou journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10....

Delighted to have last ever academic essay published in @prinquiry.bsky.social. On PR, culture and climate collapse. Thanks to @katefitch.bsky.social and all who made it possible

#PR scholars heading to #ICA25 - our journal editor @kristindemetrious.bsky.social is attending the #criticalPR pre-conference as well as the big event if you’d like to chat

congrats @beznarjo.bsky.social - I’m proud to publish this provocative essay on PR, Deep Adaptation and the climate emergency

I had the best time researching this paper on wine, women and PR 🍷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

Phyllis Parkinson helped develop an Australian wine market through media relations & the distribution of wine recipes 🍷 making wine drinking acceptable for Anglo Australians & women (but her contributions are absent from both PR & wine history) www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

I had the best time researching this paper on wine, women and PR 🍷 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

new autoethnographic research with reflections on anti-racism and social justice in the PR classroom by Luke Capizzo, @adriwall.bsky.social Nneka Logan & @katieplace.bsky.social 👏 journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

➡️ You can read work on the topic by Dr Downing, honorary lecturer at Australian National University in this 2023 article in History Australia, 'A glass ceiling smashed? Reflecting on gender equity in the discipline of history' (log in required): 🔗 www.tandfonline.com/doi/full/10....

the May 2025 editorial is online @alenkajelen.bsky.social @kristindemetrious.bsky.social & I call on PR scholars to be ‘troublemakers’

so pleased that we have published this important paper on PR education in @prinquiry.bsky.social

PR scholars should lead students through anti-racist, emancipatory, and critical advocacy work to prepare them to be ethical and social justice-minded PR professionals #justpublished journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

I’m absolutely honored to receive the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award for outstanding research! Thank you to the editors and reviewers at @prinquiry.bsky.social for making this opportunity possible! I look forward to seeing this award evolve and grow critical PR scholarship for years to come.

🏢 In the 1970s feminists identified a less-visible form of discrimination — the ‘glass ceiling’. On Thursday we kick off our FREE webinar series with three excellent panelists: Karen Downing, Claire Wright & @katefitch.bsky.social. ✍ Register: www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_mar_2025...

Thank you @katefitch.bsky.social! It is an incredible honor to receive this award.

Congratulations Sarah Aghazadeh as the inaugural winner of the L’Etang-Pieczka Award. Your interdisciplinary paper is a worthy winner, tackling taboos around pregnancy loss and offering new directions in PR scholarship. journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

Congratulations to the inaugural winner of the L’Etang-Pieczka Award: Sarah A. Aghazadeh @saaghazadeh.bsky.social Don’t say “the D word”: Exploring death taboo and biopower in pregnancy loss awareness advocacy 👏 journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

congratulations @saaghazadeh.bsky.social 🙌

💡The glass ceiling: is it shattered, cracked, or stubbornly intact? We will be exploring this question in our first Making Public Histories webinar of 2025 one week from today - featuring historians Dr Karen Downing, Dr @katefitch.bsky.social, & Dr Claire Wright, with time for audience Q&A!

👏 shortlisted for the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award 👏 Naíde Müller: ‘Challenge or resist dominant discourses: Authenticity as a strategic component of activist public relations’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

👏 shortlisted for the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award 👏 Derek Moscato: ‘All the city’s a stage: Greenpeace, #VWDarkside, and the popular appeals of urban climate activism’ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

"when a simple little jacket warms you and charms you and keeps its shape day in and day out you'll be glad you insisted on pure new wool" (x.com/LaurenRosewa...) Pure New Wool "naturally". New Idea, 1966.

👏 shortlisted for in the inaugural L’Etang-Pieczka Award 👏 Elin Helgesson’s investigation of public affairs and lobbyists ‘Folk devils and moral vigilantes – The occupational branding of public affairs consultants and the management of stigma‘ journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

🙌 shortlisted for the inaugural L’Etang-Piezcka Award 🙌 Sarah A Aghazadeh’s article, ‘Don’t say the D-word’ explores pregnancy loss through a sociocultural perspective of PR, drawing on interviews with 17 advocates & activists journals.sagepub.com/doi/abs/10.1...

we’re announcing the inaugural winner of the L’Etang-Pieczka Award next week on Friday 21 March 👏

looking forward to talking about PR, gender & history on this webinar on ‘the glass ceiling’ with Karen Downing and Claire EF Wright - it’s free to join us on 27/3 @ 5pm AEST

I’m speaking at this @historycouncilvic.bsky.social webinar- The Glass Ceiling: Shattered, cracked or Stubbornly Intact - on 27 March, 5pm AEST www.historycouncilvic.org.au/mph_mar_2025...

If you're open to including grad students, I would love to be included. I'm a 3rd-year student @uosojc.bsky.social examining equity/power concerns for PR professionals with a focus on the power in/of language.

more #EnergyPR greenwash from the Oz gas industry and #NewsCorp amp.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

How does #polarisation manifest in media & communication at breaking points? Our new article identifies 5 key symptoms of destructive polarisation🔓: rb.gy/fp5akv @icsjournal.bsky.social T. Choucair, @vilkins.bsky.social , @svegaard.bsky.social, @snurb.bsky.social, C. Lubicz, K. O'Connor Farfan

really pleased to announce this new award for#criticalPR scholarship - congrats to the finalists

love it that people are sharing pet pics so here’s mine 🐕

exciting news! we have launched the L’Etang-Pieczka Award to recognise innovative, critical, creative and boundary-pushing public relations scholarship journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/...

my weekend reading is sorted 🤩 can’t wait to read your new book on the Australian Women’s Weekly & Oz food culture @clemloz.bsky.social publishing.monash.edu/product/a-ma...

Nice #criticalPR starter pack created by @katefitch.bsky.social

new to Bluesky so it might be ambitious to create a #CriticalPR starter pack (thanks @ckayweaver.bsky.social for suggesting it) - please share with your networks and I’ll keep adding to it