Behavioural Sociologist and Mass Communication Scholar. ILM-certified coach. Environmentalist. Ecofeminist. Vegetarian. Animal Lover. Former Journalist. PR Academic and Convert. Young scholar mentor. Championing research-led teaching. Empowering disempowered and always advocating.
Director: Nora Fingscheidt I watched The Unforgivable when it was first released (2021) but did not blog during the pandemic, courtesy of excessive and abnormal isolation in the UK that lasted too many years and caused me immense stress plus an increased workload. The Unforgivable is not just another Sandra Bullock film (and we know…
FOOD MATTERS: SUSTAINABILITY, EATING HABITS AND THE ROLE OF PUBLIC RELATIONS AND COMMUNICATIONS IN THE WORLD OF CLIMATE CHANGE Editors: Dr Martina TopićThe University of AlabamaCollege of Communication and Information SciencesDepartment of Advertising and PRmtopic@ua.edu / martinahr@gmail.com Dr Marija Geiger ZemanIvo Pilar Institute of Social SciencesZagreb, CroatiaMarija.GeigerZeman@pilar.hr RATIONALE AND THE CALL FOR PAPERS Sustainability is…
Author: Michelle Obama I follow US politics and the media quite a lot because of the nature of the work I do, i.e., studying mass communications industries. I knew about Barack Obama’s presidency and some of the initiatives he launched and how he tried to change the US. But what I did not know was…
Author: Emily Edwards This book was part of reading for the school’s book club I formed with colleagues as part of the #WECAN project. It is indeed one of the most thought-provoking books we read as part of the book club due to the moral, ethical and behavioural questions it opens. In the book, we…
Author: Sally Page This book was recommended by a member of the project book club I formed for the #WECAN project. It came as a recommendation because I said I loved books by Libby Page and want to find an author who writes similarly since I read everything she wrote. By similar, I mean stories…
Glennon Doyle As part of the #WECAN book club, this month we read Glennon Doyle’s powerful book ‘Untamed: Stop pleasing, start living’. The title of the book initially reads like some book about grown-up women’s empowerment, which is not what I normally read. Therefore, I was not thrilled when this was proposed by one of…
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Women and Leadership in the Public Relations Industry: An International Perspective. London: Rutledge Editor: Dr Martina Topić, Leeds Beckett University, UK (M.Topic@leedsbeckett.ac.uk) As part of the EUPRERA project on Women in Public Relations, which I lead, I have so far edited and released four reports and one journal article based on…
Get a book on Amazon I just finished reading the book by inspirational Kate Cousens, a PR practitioner who wrote an autobiographical book about her experience of rising up in ranks in what is still a man’s world. Unlike many books telling women what to do and how to succeed by concentrating on teaching them…
CALL FOR BOOK CHAPTERS Editors: Martina Topic, Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University, United Kingdom Sydney Heifler, The University of Oxford, United Kingdom Women in the Media: Who Creates the News? So far, the research has shown that women have less voice in the media than men do, both as the creators of news, the…
As a feminist, I always eagerly follow all elections where women compete for the highest positions, and I always follow media articles and public debates on feminism and women’s rights. I noticed recently that feminism is criticised as unnecessary in some public forums and the media, and nevertheless this discourse has also been used against…