Faculty of Arts

Professional Communication

In light of an ever-changing global landscape, this volume offers new ways of conducting professional communication research with real-world impact through consultancy, advocacy and activism.

In this volume, professional communication is focused on in a range of settings including healthcare, businesses, politics and law. Authors take new approaches to investigating a range of contemporary socio-political issues in different workplaces, including issues of miscommunication, conflict and inequality. 

The collection includes the work of both academics and practitioners who are all responding to a series of political, social and technological challenges which are transforming the global landscape of professional communication research. It focuses on original, empirical studies in a number of geographical locations including Africa, Asia, and Australasia, as well as Europe and North America.

Publication details and content overview

The cover of Professional Communication, edited by Louise MullanyPublished: March 2020

Palgrave Macmillan

 
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In this collection, new approaches to conducting professional communication research are taken, where researchers and practitioners work together to solve socio-cultural problems including inequalities, miscommunication and conflicts. 
Original data are taken from a wide range of professions including policing, engineering, healthcare, education, corporate businesses, farming, market entrepreneurship, charities and NGOs.
Louise Mullany
Professor of English
 

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Funding details

  • Chapter 4 (Lumala and Mullany) has been funded by the AHRC.
  • Chapter 7 (Stubbe et al.) is funded by the New Zealand Health Research Council, the New Zealand Lotteries Health Research Fund, and the New Zealand Ministry of Health.
  • Chapter 8 (Pope et al.) was supported by the Dept of Veterans Affairs, and the Veterans Health Administrations; Office of Research and Development, USA.
  • Chapter 12 (Hardaker) was funded by the ESRC.
  • Chapter 13 (Mullany and Trickett) was funded by the Office of the Nottinghamshire Police and Crime Commissioner.

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