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All SBMI PhD dissertations can be requested from the Texas Medical Center Library . Full text of dissertations are available online for open access in the Digital Commons of the TMC Library . Note that recent dissertations will not be immediately available as the online collection is updated and indexed.

Yan Chu (2024) Radiation-Induced Lymphopenia: Understanding, Predictive Modelling and Developing Photon and Proton-Based Mitigation Strategies PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Yuntao Yang (2024) Decoding Disease Mechanisms: Unraveling Large-Scale Biological Data for Novel Therapeutic Target Discovery PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Xu Zuo (2024) An Informatics Framework for Representing, Detecting, and Measuring Citations of Biomedical Datasets PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Yanfei Wang, MS (2023) Advancing Precision Medicine: Unveiling Disease Trajectories, Decoding Biomarkers, and Tailoring Individual Treatments PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Tavleen Kaur Ranjit Singh, MS (2023) Context-aware Content-sensitive Modeling of Online Peer Interactions in Social Media: Towards Personalized Digital Experiences for Behavior Change and Health Promotion PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Sarah May, BS, MS, MPH (2023) Automating Construction of Fair Models for HIV Risk Prediction Using Neighborhood Data PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Astrid Manuel, BSc (2023) Translational Bioinformatics Approaches for Decoding Mechanisms and Developing Drug Repositioning Strategies in Multiple Sclerosis PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Bingrui Li, BS (2023) Unveiling the Hidden Landscape of Tumors: Developing Cutting-Edge Machine Learning Approaches to Determine the Compositions of Cells and Exosomes PhD thesis, McWilliams School of Biomedical Informatics at UTHealth Houston.

Alexandra Zingg, MPH, MS (2023) Leveraging Digital Technologies for Management of Peripartum Depression to Mitigate Health Disparities PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Sarvesh Soni, B.Tech., MS (2023) Question Answering from Electronic Health Records PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Zhao Li, M.Eng. (2023) Cancer Risk Prediction and Interpretation from Electronic Health Records PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Fangfang Yan, MS (2022) Informatics Approaches for Capturing Dynamic Gene Expression and Regulation PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Su Wang, MBE (2022) Development of Enabling Technologies for Genomic Analysis PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Jingqi Wang, MS (2022) Disease Concept Normalization for Clinical Documents Using Deep Learning and Knowledge Graphs PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Nina Smith, MPH (2022) Proposing a Conceptual Model of the Unintended Consequences of Health Information Technology Policy PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Surabhi Datta, BE, MS (2022) Spatial Information Extraction from Radiology Reports PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Yi-Ching Tang, MS (2022) Utilizing Molecular Pathways to Provide Generalizable, Explainable, and Translatable Models from Cancer Drug Response Prediction PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Carlos Artuto Perez Aldana, MS (2022) Social Network Analysis of Online Support Communities for Adolescent and Young Adult Cancer Survivors PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Roni Matin, MSc (2022). Identifying Risk Factors for Anchoring Bias during Emergency Department Transitions of Care PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics

Xinyuan Zhang, MS (2022). Computer-Aided Diagnosis for Melanoma using Ontology and Deep Learning Approaches PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics

Laila Rasmy Gindy Bekhet, MS (2021). Secondary use of Structured Electronic Health Records Data: From Observational Studies to Deep Learning-based Predictive Modeling PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics

Yuqi Si, MS (2021). Enhance Representation Learning of Clinical Narrative with Neural Networks for Clinical Predictive Modeling PhD thesis, The UTHealth Houston School of Biomedical Informatics

Xiao Dong, MD, MS (2021). Standardizing New Diagnostic Tests to Facilitate Rapid Responses to The Covid-19 Pandemic PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Maryam Y. Garza, MPH, MMCi (2020). Determining the Utility of HL7 ® Fast Healthcare Interoperability Resources (FHIR ® ) Standards in Supporting EHR and EDC-agnostic eSource Implementations for Clinical Research PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Qiang Wei, MS (2020). Table-to-Text: Generating Descriptive Text for Scientific Tables from Randomized Controlled Trials PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Muhammad Amith, MS (2019). Design and Architecture of an Ontology-driven Dialogue System for HPV Vaccine Counseling PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Jingcheng Du, BS (2019). VaxInsight: an artificial intelligence system to access large-scale public perceptions of vaccination from social media PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Kang Lin Hsieh, MS (2019). Utilizing Temporal Information in The EHR for Developing a Novel Continuous Prediction Model PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Vickie Nguyen, MA, MS (2019). TURF for Teams: Considering Both the Team and I in the Work-Centered Design of Systems PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Safa Fathiamini, MD, MS (2018). Comparing Attributional and Relational Similarity as a Means to Identify Clinically Relevant Drug-gene Relationships PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Jun Li, MS (2018). Ontology-Based Clinical Information Extraction Using SNOMED CT PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Scott Malec, MLIS, MSIT (2018). Using the Literature to Identify Confounders PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Melissa P. Resnick, MLS (2018). Characterizing the Information Needs of Rural Healthcare Practitioners with Language Agnostic Automated Text Analysis PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Barbara Berkovich, MA (2017). Impact of Terminology Mapping on Population Health Cohorts PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Francis Manion (2017). A Life Cycle Approach to the Development and Validation of an Ontology of the U.S. Common Rule (45 C.F.R. § 46) PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Scott Sittig, MHI, RHIA (2017). Integrating Behavioral Trigger Messages into a mHealth System Design for Chronic Disease Management PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Zhiguo Yu, MS (2017). Understanding PubMed Search Results using Topic Models and Interactive Information Visualization PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Min Jiang, MS (2017). Improving Syntactic Parsing of Clinical Text Using Domain Knowledge PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Chen Liang, MS (2017). Understanding Patient Safety Reports via Multi-label Text Classification and Semantic Representation PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Jose Franck Diaz, MS (2016). DataGauge: A Model-Driven Framework for Systematically Assessing the Quality of Clinical Data for Secondary Use PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

J. Caleb Goodwin, MS, BS (2015). Implications of computational cognitive models for information retrieval PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Deevakar Rogith, MBBS (2015). Process Mining of Medication Revisions in Electronic Health Records PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Claire Loe, BA, MPH (2015). Designing for Practice Development in a Social Learning System: Communicating Norms and Vicarious Experience PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Jianbo Lei, MD, MS, MA (2014). Named Entity Recognition in Chinese Clinical Text PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Ning Shang, MS (2014). Integrating Domain Knowledge to Improve Signal Detection from Electronic Health Records for Pharmacovigilance PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Sahiti Myneni, MSE (2013). Attributing Meaning to Online Social Network Analysis  for Tailored Socio-Behavioral Support Systems PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Sina Madani, MD, MS (2013). Development and Evaluation of an Ontology-Based Quality Metrics Extraction System PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Ashish Joshi, MD, MPH (2012). The SanaViz: Human Centered Geovisualization to Facilitate Visual Exploration of Public Health Data PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Phatak, S. S., MS (2012). Advanced Protein Modeling Method: Benchmarking and Applications in Computer-Aided Drug Discovery PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Srinivasan, A., MS (2012). A Method for representing contextualized Information (MeRCI) To Improve Situational Awareness Among Electronic Message Brokering System Dashboard Users PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Rusu, M., Meng, MS (2011). Modeling Techniques for the High-Resolution Interpretation of Cryo-Electron Microscopy Reconstructions PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

McGuire, M., BS, MS (2011). Pathway Semantics: An Algebraic Data Driven Algorithm to Generate Hypotheses about Molecular Patterns Underlying Disease Progression PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston.

Maffei, R., BS, MS(2011). Understanding and Characterizing Shared Decision-Making and Behavioral Intent in Medical Uncertainty   PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston. 

Kennedy, C., MD, MS (2010). Time Series Analysis as Input for Predictive Modeling: Predicting Cardiac Arrest in a Pediatric Intensive Care Unit PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston. 

Zhu, M., MD, MS(2010). Formalizing a Conceptual Framework of Work Domain Knowledge PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston. 

Nahm, Meredith, MS (2010). Data Accuracy in Medical Record Abstraction PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Biomedical Informatics at Houston. 

Smith, Kimberly, PhD (2010). The Effect of Proximity, Explicitness, and Representation of Basic Science Information on Student Clinical Program-Solving PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston. 

Mirhaji, Parsa, MD (2009). Biomedical Language Understanding and Extraction: A Minimal Syntactic, Semantic Method PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Florez-Arango, J., MD, MS (2009). Workload and Performance Factors Associated with Multimedia Jobs Aids for Community Health Workers PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

McLane, S., MS, MBA, RN-BC (2009). Understanding Nurse Created Cognitive Artifacts:Personally-Created-Cognitive-Artifacts as External Representations of Distributed Cognition PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Esquivel, A., MD, MS (2008). Characterizing, Assessing, and Improving Healthcare Referral Communication PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences.

Herskovic, J.R., MD, MS (2008). Unsupervised Indexing Of Medline Articles Through Graph-Based Ranking PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences.

Rankin, J., BA, MHA, MS, MPH, PHD (2008). The Multiple Location Time Weighted Index: Using Patient Activity Spaces to Calculate Primary Care Service Areas PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Chen, J., DDS, MS, PhD, (2007). Developing a Method for Identifying and Reducing Functional Discrepancies of Information Systems PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Bhavanne, R., MS (2006). Nanoparticle Agglomerates for Pulmonary Drug Delivery PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Brixey, J.J., RN, PhD (2006). Understanding Interruptions in Healthcare: Developing a Model PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Gong, Y., MD, MS (2006). The Interaction Between Internal and External Information on Relational Data Search PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Walji, M.F., MS (2006). Does the Message Matter? Enhancing Patient Adherence through Persuasive Messages PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Michea, Y.F., MD, MS, PhD, (2004). Cognitive Impact of Interactive Multimedia PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Johnson, C.M., RN, PhD (2003). Effects of Information Display on the Construction of Clinical Mental Models PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

Richesson, R.L., MPH, PhD (2003). A Process for Achieving Comparable Data from Heterogeneous Databases PhD thesis, The University of Texas School of Health Information Sciences at Houston.

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Using newspaper content analysis to understand media representations of health issues and inform improved health policy advocacy

Patterson, Christopher C. (2020) Using newspaper content analysis to understand media representations of health issues and inform improved health policy advocacy. PhD thesis, University of Glasgow.

The mass media represent a powerful societal institution that reflects and shapes the social, cultural and political world. Within health research, media content analysis is an increasingly popular tool for examining how the media represent, and potentially influence, audiences’ understandings of health. This submission comprises eight published papers analysing UK news media representations of health issues and policies, and an explanatory essay. The essay seeks to contextualise the papers within relevant theoretical literatures and demonstrate the papers’ original contributions, both individually and collectively, to knowledge in health communication and policy advocacy. The analytical developments between the submitted papers are contextualised within literatures on the mass media, media research and policymaking, each of which is has been a site of paradigmatic change.

The submitted papers demonstrate the application of content analysis to UK newspaper and online news coverage of obesity, single-episodic drinking, alcohol pricing policy, smoke-free policy and e-cigarette regulation. Approaches used include quantitative, qualitative and mixed-methods content analysis, consistent with the epistemological heterogeneity of the field. Each paper is informed by relevant theory, chiefly agenda setting theory and framing theory. While each paper produces its own novel topic-specific insights, the explanatory essay also considers commonalities across topics that lead to transferrable learning for practice in health communication and policy advocacy.

The submitted works’ novel contributions to knowledge include: documenting media frames; analysing trends within media frames; documenting stakeholders’ engagement in media debates; highlighting the strategic importance of defining target groups; identifying areas for improvement in media health communication; identifying the need for a social justice approach to public health communication; and identifying the need to engage with values of public health. Specific transferrable learning emerging from synthesis of findings includes: the effectiveness of positioning children as affected groups in negating opposition arguments about individual responsibility; the opportunity to use trends in media coverage to anticipate media framing and policy actor engagement in media debates; and the need for health communication to avoid reproducing harmful stigma, stereotyping and inequality.

While content analysis alone cannot provide conclusive prescriptions for media engagement, the submitted works mitigate the inherent restrictions of the method through the use of rigorous, theory-led methods and the triangulation of findings between different topics and analytical approaches. In doing so, the submitted works contribute to a growing international literature by providing health communicators and policy advocates with novel learning that may contribute to practice. The explanatory essay justifies the importance of studying mass media representations of health issues and policies, and demonstrates the contribution of the submitted works to understanding media representations of health issues and informing improved health policy advocacy.

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Health communication.

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MPhil Thesis: Health Communication for Development: Counting on Communication to Achieve Behaviour Change

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Communication Studies Theses, Dissertations, and Professional Papers

This collection includes theses, dissertations, and professional papers from the University of Montana Department of Communication Studies. Theses, dissertations, and professional papers from all University of Montana departments and programs may be searched here.

Theses/Dissertations from 2024 2024

The Role of Face Threats in Understanding Target’s Interpretation of a Tease , Shawn M. Deegan

RETROSPECTIVE AND INTERACTIVE ANALYSES OF PARENT-ADOLESCENT STORYTELLING ABOUT ALCOHOL , Kiersten Marie Falck

A CASE OF WATER: A RHETORICAL ANALYSIS OF THE LEGAL AND SOCIAL EFFECTS OF THE ARIZONA V. NAVAJO NATION SUPREME COURT CASE , Mykel Patrick Greene

To Revise Or Not To Revise: How Feedback Type, Interpersonal Liking, and Messenger Credibility Influence Revision , Rachel Jane Jensen

The National Football League's Problem , Marley R. Merchen

Menopause in The Public Sphere: The Consciousness-Raising Practices of Technical and Experiential Experts , Emma J. Murdock

Minimizing Toxicity and Maximizing Social Connection in Collegiate Esports Teams , Julia Kay Tonne

EXPLORING CROSS-CULTURAL COMMUNICATION STRATEGIES AND SOLUTIONS OF INTERNATIONAL STUDENTS IN ACADEMIC ENVIRONMENTS WITH CONSIDERATION TO COMMUNICATION ACCOMMODATION THEORY , Wendy K. Yeboah

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

COMEDY, CAMARADERIE, AND CONFLICT: USING HUMOR TO DEFUSE DISPUTES AMONG FRIENDS , Sheena A. Bringa

Navigating Toxic Identities Within League of Legends , Jeremy Thomas Miner

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

UNDERSTANDING MEDIA RICHNESS AND SOCIAL PRESENCE: EXPLORING THE IMPACTS OF MEDIA CHANNELS ON INDIVIDUALS’ LEVELS OF LONELINESS, WELL-BEING, AND BELONGING , Ashley M. Arsenault

CANCELING VS. #CANCEL CULTURE: AN ANALYSIS ON THE SURVEILLANCE AND DISCIPLINE OF SOCIAL MEDIA BEHAVIOR THROUGH COMPETING DISCOURSES OF POWER , Julia G. Bezio

DISTAL SIBLING GRIEF: EXPLORING EMOTIONAL AFFECT AND SALIENCE OF LISTENER BEHAVIORS IN STORIES OF SIBLING DEATH , Margaret C. Brock

Is Loss a Laughing Matter?: A Study of Humor Reactions and Benign Violation Theory in the Context of Grief. , Miranda B. Henrich

The Request Is Not Compatible: Competing Frames of Public Lands Discourse in the Lolo Peak Ski Resort Controversy , Philip A. Sharp

Patient Expectations, Satisfaction, and Provider Communication Within the Oncology Experience , Elizabeth Margaret Sholey

Psychological Safety at Amazon: A CCO Approach , Kathryn K. Zyskowski

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

Discourse of Renewal: A Qualitative Analysis of the University of Montana’s COVID-19 Crisis Communication , Haley Renae Gabel

Activating Hope: How Functional Support Can Improve Hope in Unemployed Individuals , Rylee P. Walter

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

THE HOME AS A SITE OF FAMILY COMMUNICATED NARRATIVE SENSE-MAKING: GRIEF, MEANING, AND IDENTITY THROUGH “CLEANING OUT THE CLOSET” , Kendyl A. Barney

CRISIS AS A CONSTANT: UNDERSTANDING THE COMMUNICATIVE ENACTMENT OF COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE WITHIN THE EXTENSION DISASTER EDUCATION NETWORK (EDEN) , Danielle Maria Farley

FOSTERING COMMUNITIES OF PRACTICE IN COMPREHENSIVE SEX EDUCATION: EVALUATION AND RECOMMENDATIONS ON THE FOUNDATIONS TRAINING , Shanay L. Healy

Belonging for Dementia Caregivers , Sabrina Singh

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Making the Most of People We Do Not Like: Capitalizing on Negative Feedback , Christopher Edward Anderson

Understanding the Relationship Between Discursive Resources and Risk-Taking Behaviors in Outdoor Adventure Athletes , Mira Ione Cleveland

Service Failure Management in High-End Hospitality Resorts , Hunter A. Dietrich

Fear, Power, & Teeth (2007) , Olivia Hockenbroch

The climate change sublime: Leveraging the immense awe of the planetary threat of climate change , Sean D. Quartz

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

The Relationship Between Memorable Messages and Identity Construction , Raphaela P. Barros Campbell

Wonder Woman: A Case Study for Critical Media Literacy , Adriana N. Fehrs

Curated Chaos: A Rhetorical Study of Axmen , Rebekah A. McDonald

THE ROLE OF BIPOLAR DISORDER, STIGMA, AND HURTFUL MESSAGES IN ROMANTIC RELATIONSHIPS , Callie Parrish

Cruising to be a Board Gamer: Understanding Socialization Relating to Board Gaming and The Dice Tower , Benjamin Wassink

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

STEAMED: EXAMINATIONS OF POWER STRUGGLES ON THE VALUE FORUM , richard E. babb

Beyond the Bike; Identity and Belonging of Free Cycles Members , Caitlyn Lewis

Adherence and Uncertainty Management: A Test Of The Theory Of Motivated Information Management , Ryan Thiel

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

Redskins Revisited: Competing Constructions of the Washington Redskins Mascot , Eean Grimshaw

A Qualitative Analysis of Belonging in Communities of Practice: Exploring Transformative Organizational Elements within the Choral Arts , Aubrielle J. Holly

Training the Professoraite of Tomorrow: Implementing the Needs Centered Training Model to Instruct Graduate Teaching Assistants in the use of Teacher Immediacy , Leah R. Johnson

Beyond Blood: Examining the Communicative Challenges of Adoptive Families , Mackensie C. Minniear

Attitudes Toward Execution: The Tragic and Grotesque Framing of Capital Punishment in the News , Katherine Shuy

Knowledge and Resistance: Feminine Style and Signifyin[g] in Michelle Obama’s Public Address , Tracy Valgento

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

BLENDED FRAMEWORK: BILL MCKIBBEN'S USE OF MELODRAMA AND COMEDY IN ENVIRONMENTAL RHETORIC , Megan E. Cullinan

THE INFLUENCE OF MEDICAL DRAMAS ON PATIENT EXPECTATIONS OF PHYSICIAN COMMUNICATION , Kayla M. Fadenrecht

Diabesties: How Diabetic Support on Campus can Alleviate Diabetic Burnout , Kassandra E. Martin

Resisting NSA Surveillance: Glenn Greenwald and the public sphere debate about privacy , Rebecca Rice

Rhetoric, participation, and democracy: The positioning of public hearings under the National Environmental Policy Act , Kevin C. Stone

Socialization and Volunteers: A Training Program for Volunteer Managers , Allison M. Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

THIRD PARTY EFFECTS OF AFFECTIONATE COMMUNICATION IN FAMILY SUBSYSTEMS: EXAMINING INFLUENCE ON AFFECTIONATE COMMUNICATION, MENTAL WELL-BEING, AND FAMILY SATISFACTION , Timothy M. Curran

Commodity or Dignity? Nurturing Managers' Courtesy Nurtures Workers' Productivity , Montana Rafferty Moss

"It Was My Job to Keep My Children Safe": Sandra Steingraber and the Parental Rhetoric of Precaution , Mollie Katherine Murphy

Life, Liberty, and the Pursuit of Free Markets: ALEC's Populist Constructions of "the People" in State Politics , Anne Sherwood

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

COMMUNICATIVE CONSTRUCTION OF EXPECTATIONS: AN EXAMINATION OF EXPECTATIONS REGARDING MOTHERS IN NARRATIVE CONSTRUCTION , Jordan A. Allen

Let’s talk about sex: A training program for parents of 4th and 5th grade children , Elizabeth Kay Eickhoff

"You Is The Church": Identity and Identification in Church Leadership , Megan E. Gesler

This land is your land, this land is my land: A qualitative study of tensions in an environmental decision making group , Gabriel Patrick Grelle

The Constitution of Queer Identity in the 1972 APA Panel, "Psychiatry: Friend or Foe to Homosexuals? A Dialogue" , Dustin Vern Edward Schneider

The Effect of Religious Similarity on the Use of Relational Maintenance Strategies in Marriages , Jamie Karen Taylor

Justice, Equality, and SlutWalk: The Rhetoric of Protesting Rape Culture , Dana Whitney Underwood

Theses/Dissertations from 2012 2012

Collective Privacy Boundary Turbulence and Facework Strategies: A Cross-Cultural Comparison of South Korea and the United States , Min Kyong Cho

COMMUNICATING ARTIFACTS: AN ANALYSIS OF HOW MUSEUMS COMMUNICATE ORGANIZATIONAL IDENTITY DURING TIMES OF CONTROVERSY AND FINANCIAL STRAIN , Amanda Renee Cornuke

Communication Apprehension and Perceived Responsiveness , Elise Alexandra Fanney

Improving Patient-Provider Communication in the Health Care context , Charlotte M. Glidden

What They Consider, How They Decide: Best Practices of Technical Experts in Environmental Decision-Making , Cassandra J. Hemphill

Rebuilding Place: Exploring Strategies to Align Place Identity During Relocation , Brigette Renee McKamey

Sarah Palin, Conservative Feminism, and the Politics of Family , Jasmine Rose Zink

Theses/Dissertations from 2011 2011

Salud, Dignidad, Justicia: Articulating "Choice" and "Reproductive Justice" for Latinas in the United States , Kathleen Maire de Onis

Environmental Documentary Film: A Contemporary Tool For Social Movement , Rachel Gregg

In The Pink: The (Un)Healthy Complexion of National Breast Cancer Awareness Month , Kira Stacey Jones

Jihad as an Ideograph: Osama bin Laden's rhetorical weapon of choice , Faye Lingarajan

The Heart of the Matter: The Function and Relational Effects of Humor for Cardiovascular Patients , Nicholas Lee Lockwood

Feeling the Burn: A Discursive Analysis of Organizational Burnout in Seasonal Wildland Firefighters , Whitney Eleanor Marie Maphis

Making A Comeback: An Exploration of Nontraditional Students & Identity Support , Jessica Kate McFadden

In the Game of Love, Play by the Rules: Implications of Relationship Rule Consensus over Honesty and Deception in Romantic Relationships , Katlyn Elise Roggensack

Assessing the balance: Burkean frames and Lil' Bush , Elizabeth Anne Sills

Theses/Dissertations from 2010 2010

The Discipline of Identity: Examining the Challenges of Developing Interdisciplinary Identities Within the Science Disciplines , Nicholas Richard Burk

Occupational Therapists: A Study of Managing Multiple Identities , Katherine Elise Lloyd

Discourse, Identity, and Culture in Diverse Organizations: A Study of The Muslim Students Association (University of Montana) , Burhanuddin Bin Omar

The Skinny on Weight Watchers: A Critical Analysis of Weight Watcher's Use of Metaphors , Ashlynn Laura Reynolds-Dyk

You Got the Job, Now What?: An Evaluation of the New Employee Orientation Program at the University of Montana , Shiloh M. A. Sullivan

Theses/Dissertations from 2009 2009

Because We Have the Power to Choose: A Critical Analysis of the Rhetorical Strategies Used in Merck's Gardasil Campaign , Brittney Lee Buttweiler

Communicative Strategies Used in the Introduction of Spirituality in the Workplace , Matthew Alan Condon

Cultures in Residence: Intercultural Communication Competence for Residence Life Staff , Bridget Eileen Flaherty

The Influence of Sibling Support on Children's Post-Divorce Adjustment: A Turning Point Analysis , Kimberly Ann Jacobs

TALK ABOUT “HOOKING UP”: HOW COLLEGE STUDENTS‟ ACCOUNTS OF “HOOKING UP” IN SOCIAL NETWORKS INFLUENCES ENGAGING IN RISKY SEXUAL BEHAVIOR , Amanda J. Olson

The Effect of Imagined Interactions on Secret Revelation and Health , Adam Stephens Richards

Teaching Intercultural Communication Competence in the Healthcare Context , Jelena Stojakovic

Quitting versus Not Quitting: The Process and Development of an Assimilation Program Within Opportunity Resources, Inc. , Amanda N. Stovall

Theses/Dissertations from 2008 2008

IMAGES AS A LAYER OF POSITIVE RHETORIC: A VALUES-BASED CASE STUDY EXPLORING THE INTERACTION BETWEEN VISUAL AND VERBAL ELEMENTS FOUND ON A RURAL NATURAL RESOURCES NON-PROFIT ORGANIZATION WEBSITE , Vailferree Stilwell Brechtel

Relational Transgressions in Romantic Relationships: How Individuals Negotiate the Revelation and Concealment of Transgression Information within the Social Network , Melissa A. Maier

Theses/Dissertations from 2007 2007

THE SOCIALIZATION OF SEASONAL EMPLOYEES , Maria Dawn Blevins

Friends the family you choose (no matter what: An investigation of fictive kin relationships amoung young adults. , Kimberly Anne Clinger

Public relations in nonprofit organizations: A guide to establishing public relations programs in nonprofit settings , Megan Kate Gale

Negotiated Forgiveness in Parent-Child Relationships: Investigating Links to Politeness, Wellness and Sickness , Jennifer Lynn Geist

Developing and Communicating Better Sexual Harassment Policies Through Ethics and Human Rights , Thain Yates Hagan

Managing Multiple Identities: A Qualitative Study of Nurses and Implications for Work-Family Balance , Claire Marie Spanier

BEYOND ORGANIC: DEFINING ALTERNATIVES TO USDA CERTIFIED ORGANIC , Jennifer Ann von Sehlen

Theses/Dissertations from 2006 2006

Graduate Teaching Assistant Interpretations and Responses to Student Immediacy Cues , Clair Owen Canfield

Verbal negotiation of affection in romantic relationships , Andrea Ann Richards

Theses/Dissertations from 2005 2005

Art of forgiveness , Carrie Benedict

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Communication Theses and Dissertations

Theses/dissertations from 2024 2024.

Examining Localized Communication, Political Action, and Polarization in the 108th Senate , Mitchell Popovic

Theses/Dissertations from 2023 2023

Consumer Purchase Intent in Opinion Leader Live Streaming , Jihong Huo

Organizing and Communicating Health: A Culture-centered and Necrocapitalist Inquiry of Groundwater Contamination in Rural West Bengal , Parameswari Mukherjee

HIV Stalks Bodies Like Mine: An Autoethnography of Self-Disclosure, Stigmatized Identity, and (In)Visibility in Queer Lived Experience , Steven Ryder

"Queen of the Mother-Tucking (Western) World": Authenticity and Nationality on Drag Race , Zane A. Willard

Theses/Dissertations from 2022 2022

Reviving the Christian Left: A Thematic Analysis of Progressive Christian Identity in American Politics , Adam Blake Arledge

Organizing Economies: Narrative Sensemaking and Communciative Resilience During Economic Disruption , Timothy Betts

The Tesla Brake Failure Protestor Scandal: A Case Study of Situational Crisis Communication Theory on Chinese Media , Jiajun Liu

Inflammatory Bowel Disease & Social (In)Visibility: An Interpretive Study of Food Choice, Self-Blame and Coping in Women Living with IBD , Jessica N. Lolli

Florida Punks: Punk, Performance, and Community at Gainesville’s Fest , Michael Anthony Mcdowell Ii

Re-centering and De-centering ‘Race’: an Analysis of Direct-to-Consumer Genetic Testing Organizational Websites , Beatriz Nieto-Fernandez

The Labors of Professional Wrestling: The Dream, the Drive, and Debility , Brooks Oglesby

Outside the Boundaries of Biomedicine: A Culture-Centered Approach to Female Patients Living Undiagnosed and Chronically Ill , Bianca Siegenthaler

The Effect of Racial and Ethnic Identity Salience on Online Political Expression and Political Participation in the United States , Jonathon Smith

Grey’s Anatomy and End of Life Ethics , Sean Micheal Swenson

Informal Communication, Sensemaking, and Relational Precarity: Constituting Resilience in Remote Work During COVID , Tanya R.M. Vomacka

Making a Way: An Auto/ethnographic Exploration of Narratives of Citizenship, Identity, (Un)Belonging and Home for Black Trinidadian[-]American Women , Anjuliet G. Woodruffe

Theses/Dissertations from 2021 2021

When I Rhyme It’s Sincerely Yours: Burkean Identification and Jay-Z’s Black Sincerity Rhetoric in the Post Soul Era , Antoine Francis Hardy

Explicating the Process of Communicative Disenfranchisement for Women with Chronic Overlapping Pain Conditions (COPCs) , Elizabeth A. Hintz

Mitigating Negativity Bias in Media Selection , Gabrielle R. Jarmoszko

Blue Rage: A Critical Cultural Analysis of Policing, Whiteness, and Racial Surveillance , Wesley T. Johnson

Narratives of Success: How Honors College Newcomers Frame the Entrance to College , Cayla Lanier

Peminist Performance in/as Filipina Feminist Praxis: Collaging Stand-Up Comedy and the Narrative Points in Between , Christina-Marie A. Magalona

¿De dónde eres?: Negotiating identity as third culture kids , Sophia Margulies

The Rise of the "Gatecrashers": The Growing Impact of Athletes Breaking News on Mainstream Media through Social Media , Michael Nabors

Learning From The Seed: Illuminating Black Girlhood in Sustainable Living Paradigms , Toni Powell Powell Young

A Comparative Thematic Analysis of Newspaper Articles in France after the Bataclan and in the United States of America after Pulse , Simon Rousset

This is it: Latina/x Representation on One Day at a Time , Camille Ruiz Mangual

STOP- motion as theory, method, and praxis: ARRESTING moments of racialized gender in the academy , Sasha J. Sanders

Advice as Metadiscourse: On the gendering of women's leadership in advice-giving practices , Amaly Santiago

The Communicative Constitution of Environment: Land, Weather, Climate , Leanna K. Smithberger

Women Entrepreneurs in China: Dialectical Discourses, Situated Activities, and the (Re)production of Gender and Entrepreneurship , Zhenyu Tian

Theses/Dissertations from 2020 2020

Constructing a Neoliberal Youth Culture in Postcolonial Bangladeshi Advertising , Md Khorshed Alam

Communication, Learning and Social Support at the Speaking Center: A Communities of Practice Perspective , Ann Marie Foley Coats

A Visit to Cuba: Performance Ethnography of Place , Adolfo Lagomasino

Elemental Climate Disaster Texts and Queer Ecological Temporality , Laura Mattson

When the Beat Drops: Exploring Hip Hop, Home and Black Masculinity , Marquese Lamont McFerguson

Communication Skills in Medical Education: A Discourse Analysis of Simulated Patient Practices , Grace Ellen Peters

Hiding Under the Sun: Health, Access, and Discourses of Representation in Undocumented Communities , Jaime Shamado Robb

Theses/Dissertations from 2019 2019

Walking Each Other Home: Sensemaking of Illness Identity in an Online Metastatic Cancer Community , Ariane B. Anderson

Widow Narratives on Film and in Memoirs: Exploring Formula Stories of Grief and Loss of Older Women After the Death of a Spouse , Jennifer R. Bender

Life as a Reluctant Immigrant: An Autoethnographic Inquiry , Dionel Cotanda

“It’s A Broken System That’s Designed to Destroy”: A Critical Narrative Analysis of Healthcare Providers’ Stories About Race, Reproductive Health, and Policy , Brianna Rae Cusanno

Representations of Indian Christians in Bollywood Movies , Ryan A. D'souza

(re)Making Worlds Together: Rooster Teeth, Community, and Sites of Engagement , Andrea M. M. Fortin

In Another's Voice: Making Sense of Reproductive Health as Women of Color , Nivethitha Ketheeswaran

Communication as Constitutive of Organization: Practicing Collaboration in and English Language Program , Ariadne Miranda

Interrogating Homonationalism in Love, Simon , Jessica S. Rauchberg

Making Sense at the Margins: Describing Narratives on Food Insecurity Through Hip-hop , Lemuel Scott

Theses/Dissertations from 2018 2018

Telling a Rape Joke: Performing Humor in a Victim Help Center , Angela Mary Candela

Becoming a Woman of ISIS , Zoe D. Fine

The Uses of Community in Modern American Rhetoric , Cody Ryan Hawley

Opening Wounds and Possibilities: A Critical Examination of Violence and Monstrosity in Horror TV , Amanda K. Leblanc

As Good as it Gets: Redefining Survival through Post-Race and Post-Feminism in Apocalyptic Film and Television , Mark R. McCarthy

Managing a food health crisis: Perceptions and reactions to different response strategies , Yifei Ren

Everything is Fine: Self-Portrait of a Caregiver with Chronic Depression and Other Preexisting Conditions , Erin L. Scheffels

Lives on the (story)Line: Group Facilitation with Men in Recovery at The Salvation Army , Lisa Pia Zonni Spinazola

Theses/Dissertations from 2017 2017

Breach: Understanding the Mandatory Reporting of Title IX Violations as Pedagogy and Performance , Jacob G. Abraham

Documenting an Imperfect Past: Examining Tampa's Racial Integration through Community, Film, and Remembrance of Central Avenue , Travis R. Bell

Chemotherapy-Induced Alopecia and Quality-of-Life: Ovarian and Uterine Cancer Patients and the Aesthetics of Disease , Meredith L. Clements

Full-Time Teleworkers Sensemaking Process for Informal Communication , Sheila A. Gobes-Ryan

Volunteer Tourism: Fulfilling the Needs for God and Medicine in Latin America , Erin Howell

Practical Theology in an Interpretive Community: An Ethnography of Talk, Texts and Video in a Mediated Women's Bible Study , Nancie Hudson

Performing Narrative Medicine: Understanding Familial Chronic Illness through Performance , Alyse Keller

Second-Generation Bruja : Transforming Ancestral Shadows into Spiritual Activism , Lorraine E. Monteagut

The Rhetoric of Scientific Authority: A Rhetorical Examination of _An Inconvenient Truth_ , Alexander W. Morales

Daniel Bryan & The Negotiation of Kayfabe in Professional Wrestling , Brooks Oglesby

Improvising Close Relationships: A Relational Perspective on Vulnerability , Nicholas Riggs

Theses/Dissertations from 2016 2016

When Maps Ignore the Territory: An Examination of Gendered Language in Cancer Patient Literature , Joanna Bartell

From Portraits to Selfies: Family Photo-making Rituals , Krystal M. Bresnahan

Spiritual Frameworks in Pediatric Palliative Care: Understanding Parental Decision-making , Lindy Grief Davidson

Blue-Collar Scholars: Bridging Academic and Working-Class Worlds , Nathan Lee Hodges

The Communication Constitution of Law Enforcement in North Carolina’s Efforts Against Human Trafficking , Elizabeth Hampton Jeter

“Black Americans and HIV/AIDS in Popular Media” Conforming to The Politics of Respectability , Alisha Lynn Menzies

Selling the American Body: The Construction of American Identity Through the Slave Trade , Max W. Plumpton

In Search of Solidarity: Identification Participation in Virtual Fan Communities , Jaime Shamado Robb

Theses/Dissertations from 2015 2015

Straight Benevolence: Preserving Heterosexual Authority and White Privilege , Robb James Bruce

A Semiotic Phenomenology of Homelessness and the Precarious Community: A Matter of Boundary , Heather Renee Curry

Heart of the Beholder: The Pathos, Truths and Narratives of Thermopylae in _300_ , James Christopher Holcom

Was It Something They Said? Stand-up Comedy and Progressive Social Change , David M. Jenkins

The Meaning of Stories Without Meaning: A Post-Holocaust Experiment , Tori Chambers Lockler

Half Empty/Half Full: Absence, Ethnicity, and the Question of Identity in the United States , Ashley Josephine Martinez

Feeling at Home with Grief: An Ethnography of Continuing Bonds and Re-membering the Deceased , Blake Paxton

"In Heaven": Christian Couples' Experiences of Pregnancy Loss , Grace Ellen Peters

“You Better Redneckognize”: White Working-Class People and Reality Television , Tasha Rose Rennels

Designing Together with the World Café: Inviting Community Ideas for an Idea Zone in a Science Center , William Travis Thompson

Theses/Dissertations from 2014 2014

Crisis Communication: Sensemaking and Decision-making by the CDC Under Conditions of Uncertainty and Ambiguity During the 2009-2010 H1N1 Pandemic , Barbara Bennington

Communication as Yoga , Kristen Caroline Blinne

Love and (M)other (Im)possibilities , Summer Renee Cunningham

The Rhetoric of Corporate Identity: Corporate Social Responsibility, Creating Shared Value, and Globalization , Carolyn Day

"Is That What You Dream About? Being a Monster?": Bella Swan and the Construction of the Monstrous-Feminine in The Twilight Saga , Amanda Jayne Firestone

Organizing Disability: Producing Knowledge in a University Accommodations Office , Shelby Forbes

Emergency Medicine Triage as the Intersection of Storytelling, Decision-Making, and Dramaturgy , Colin Ainsworth Forde

Changing Landscapes: End-of-Life Care & Communication at a Zen Hospice , Ellen W. Klein

"We're Taking Slut Back": Analyzing Racialized Gender Politics in Chicago's 2012 Slutwalk March , Aphrodite Kocieda

Informing, Entertaining and Persuading: Health Communication at The Amazing You , David Haldane Lee

(Dis)Abled Gaming: An Autoethnographic Analysis of Decreasing Accessibility For Disabled Gamers , Kyle David Romano

Theses/Dissertations from 2013 2013

African Americans and Hospice: A Culture-Centered Exploration of Disparities in End-of-Life Care , Patrick Dillon

Polysemy, Plurality, & Paradigms: The Quixotic Quest for Commensurability of Ethics and Professionalism in the Practices of Law , Eric Paul Engel

Examining the Ontoepistemological Underpinnings of Diversity Education Found in Interpersonal Communication Textbooks , Tammy L. Jeffries

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Doctoral Dissertation Topics

Doctoral Graduates Photo Credit: Rene Dailey

2023 Graduates

Doctoral Student: Dr. Qinyan Dickerson  

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Rene Dailey  

TOWARD A COMMUNICATION FRAMEWORK OF RELATIONAL STIGMA MANAGEMENT IN NONTRADITIONAL RELATIONSHIPS

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Mian Jia 

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Matt McGlone 

AN INTEGRATED APPROACH TO METADISCOURSE IN TEXT-BASED MASSPERSONAL ADVICE

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Colton Krawietz 

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Anita Vangelisti 

TOPIC AVOIDANCE AS A MULTIPLEX PHENOMENON AMONG INDIVIDUALS TRANSITIONING FROM DATING TO COHABITATION

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Inbal Leibovits 

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Roderick Hart 

THE HOMELESS CIVIC SOCIETY: A STUDY OF LIMINAL CITIZENSHIP

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Mary Lever  

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Michael Butterworth  

YES, COACH: THE RHETORIC OF PATERNALISM IN COLLEGE SPORTS

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Ashley McDonald   

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Johanna Hartelius   

A PLACE IN THE HOUSE FIRE

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Courtney Powers    

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Keri Stephens    

ORGANIZATIONAL RESILIENCE IN THE FACE OF CRISIS: COMMUNAL COPING IN FAMILY BUSINESSES

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Shelbey Rollison     

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Joshua Barbour     

ADVANCING COLLECTIVE COMMUNICATION DESIGN FOR FERTILITY TRACKING

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Oshyn Sky      

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Rene Dailey      

THE ROLE OF COMMUNICATION AND SELF-ADVOCACY IN SEXUAL RELATIONSHIPS: EXPLORING SEXUAL COMMUNICATION AMONG CIS AND TRANS WOMEN, TRANS MEN AND NON-BINARY PEOPLE

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Kendall Tich       

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Keri Stephens       

UNPRECEDENTED OR UNPREPARED? EXPLORING THE ROLE OF ORGANIZATIONS IN MOTIVATING EMPLOYEE PROTECTIVE BEHAVIORS DURING A HEALTH CRISIS

Doctoral Student:  Dr. Joy Woods        

Dissertation Supervisor:  Dr. Erin Donovan        

AT THE MOUTH OF MY GRAVE WHILE TENDING MY GARDEN: FEAR OF DEATH AND HOPE FOR LIFE IN BLACK WOMEN'S CONVERSTATIONS ABOUT REPRODUCTIVE AND MATERNAL HEALTH

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Health Communication in the OU Department of Communication has three major areas of research as our strength: (a) health communication in interpersonal contexts, (b) health promotion and campaigns, and (c) organizational and health communication. Health communication in interpersonal contexts examines how individuals manage their illness events effectively and appropriately through social interactions. Faculty members in this area of research have examined how health literacy, communicative competence, and social support play a critical role in individuals’ illness management with their support network, including health care providers, family members, and supportive others.

The area of health promotion and campaign adopts a perspective similar to that of public health researchers in exploring best practices in modifying individuals’ health behaviors (e.g., risk aversion/management and smoking cessation) through health education and implementation of different campaign strategies. Faculty members in this area of research have explored the effectiveness of campaign messages (e.g., message features), factors influencing individuals’ evaluation and interpretation of campaign messages (e.g., psychological and emotional factors), and different message outcomes (e.g., message effects and campaign evaluation).

The area of organizational and health communication focuses on research such as community organizing and health, the emotion experiences of health professionals, healthcare ethics (e.g., informed consent, privacy), healthcare teams, managed care, physician assimilation, and health professionals’ coping with stress and burnout. Currently, faculty members’ research includes community organizing and health, healthcare ethics, and physician assimilation. Because the OU-Norman campus is 20 minutes away from the OU-Health Science Center campus at Oklahoma City and 2 hours away from the OU-Community Medicine campus at Tulsa, faculty members, physicians (including medical residents), and graduate students often collaborate on research projects across campuses. In addition, due to the strength in our intercultural communication program, many of our faculty members and students often conduct their studies in international settings, highlighting the culturally and socially constructed nature of health/illness management.

Typical Graduate Level Course Offerings

Comm 5263 Health Communication Comm 5393: Risk and Crisis Communication Comm 5453: Social influence Comm 5553 Persuasive Communication Campaigns Comm 6423 Communication in Health Organizations Comm 6023 Communication Research Task Groups Comm 6960 Directed Readings

Current Faculty with Research and/or Teaching Interests

Elena Bessarabova Mengfei Guan Claude Miller James Olufowote Norman Wong

Recent Dissertations in Health Communication

Ma, Haijing (2021). “I felt completely turned off by the message”: The effects of controlling language, fear, and disgust appeals on responses to COVID-19 vaccination messages (Graduate Student Dissertation Grant Award, and H. Wayland Cummings Quantitative Dissertation Proposal Award, OU Department of Communication).

Recent Representative Faculty and Graduate Student Publications in Health Communication

JOURNAL ARTICLES

Banas, J. A., Bessarabova, E., Penkauskas, M., & Talbert, N. (2023). Inoculating against anti-vaccination conspiracies. Health Communication , 1-9. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2023.2235733

Bessarabova, E., & Massey, Z. B. (2023). The effects of death awareness and reactance on texting-and-driving prevention. Risk Analysis . https://doi.org/10.1111/risa.14107

Bessarabova, E.,  & Massey, Z. B. (2020) .  Testing terror management health model and integrating its predictions with the theory of psychological reactance,  Communication Monographs ,  87 (1), 25-46,   doi:10.1080/03637751.2019.1626992

Bessarabova, E.,  Banas, J. A., & Bernard, D. R. (2020). Emotional appeals in message design. In D. O’Hair & M. J. O’Hair (Eds.),  Handbook of applied communication research.  Sage.

Guan, M. , Li, Y., Scoles, J. D., & Zhu, Y. (2023). COVID-19 message fatigue: How does it predict behavioral intentions and what types of information are people tired of hearing about? Health Communication, 38 (8), 1631-1640. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.2023385.

Guan, M., Jennings, F. J., Villanueva, I. I., & Jackson, D. B. (2022). Delineating antecedents and outcomes of information seeking upon exposure to an environmental video opposing single-use plastics. Environmental Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/17524032.2022.2102048

Guan, M. , & So, J. (2022). Social identity theory. In E. Ho, C. Bylund, & J. van Weert (Eds.), The International Encyclopedia of Health Communication. Wiley. https://doi.org/10.1002/9781119678816.iehc0667

Guan, M. , Han, J. Y., Shah, D. V., Gustafson, D. H. (2021). Exploring the role of social support in promoting patient participation in health care among women with breast cancer. Health Communication, 36 (13), 1581-1589. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1773704

Guan, M. , & So, J. (2020). Tailoring temporal message frames to individuals’ time orientation strengthens the relationship between risk perception and behavioral intention. Journal of Health Communication , 25 (12), 971–981. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2021.1878310

Kim, N, Leshner, G. M., & Miller C. H. (2022). Native Americans’ responses to obesity attributions and message sources in an obesity prevention campaign. Journal of Health Communication , published online, https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2153289

Li, Y., Guan, M. , Hammond, P., & Berrey, L. E. (2021). Communicating COVID-19 information on TikTok: A content analysis of TikTok videos from official accounts featured in the COVID-19 information hub. Health Education Research, 36(3), 261-271. https://doi.org/10.1093/her/cyab010.

Lookadoo, K., Hubbard, C., Nisbett, G., & Wong, N. (2021). We’re all in this together: Celebrity influencer disclosures about COVID-19. Atlantic Journal of Communication. Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/15456870.2021.1936526

Lookadoo, K. L., &  Wong, N. C. H.  (2020). Searching for a silver lining: Mediated intergroup contact and mental health perceptions.  Studies in Media and Communication, 8 (2), 1-13.  doi:10.11114/smc.v8i2.xx .

Ma, H. & Miller, C. H. (2021). The effects of agency assignment and reference point on responses to COVID-19 messages , Health Communication, 36 (1), 59-73, https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1848066

Ma, H., &  Miller, C. H.  (2020). Trapped in a double bind: Chinese overseas student anxiety during the COVID-19 pandemic.  Health Communication.  DOI:  10.1080/10410236.2020.1775439

Ma, H., & Miller, C. H . (2022). Threat type moderates agency assignment: A partial matching effect. Health Communication . Published online. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2022.2065746.

Ma, H., & Miller, C. H.  (2022). “I felt completely turned off by the message”: The effects of controlling language, fear, and disgust appeals on responses to COVID-19 vaccination messages. Journal of Health Communication .

Ma, H., Miller, C. , & Wong, N. (2020). Don’t let the tornado get you!: The effects of agency assignment and self-construal on responses to tornado preparedness messages. Health Communication . Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1712038 .

Miller, C. H. , & Ma, H. (2021). How existential anxiety shapes communication in coping with the coronavirus pandemic: A terror management theory perspective. In H. D. O’Hair and M. J. O’Hair (Eds.),  Communication Science in Times of Crisis (pp. 54-80) .  Wiley.

Miller, C. H.,  Massey, Z. B., & Ma, H. Psychological reactance and persuasive message design. (2020) In H. D. O’Hair & M. J. O’Hair (Eds.),  Handbook of applied communication research . NY: Wiley. DOI: 10.1002/9781119399926.ch27

Olufowote, J. O. (2021). Taking culture and context seriously: Advancing health communication research on HIV/AIDS prevention in Tanzania with the PEN-3 cultural model. Howard Journal of Communications , 32(4), 394-412.

Olufowote, J. O. , Adebayo, C. T., Livingston, D. J., & Wilson, K. K. (2022). An alternative entry point into health communication research: Introspections on learning, applying, and future uses of PEN-3. In C. O. Airhihenbuwa & J. Iwelunmor (Eds.), Health, culture, and place: From the tree to the forest (pp. 105-120). U-RISE, LLC.

Olufowote, J. O. , & Livingston, D. J. (2021). The excluded voices from Africa’s Sahel: Alternative meanings of health in narratives of resistance to the Global Polio Eradication Initiative in northern Nigeria. Health Communication . Advance online publication. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1895416

Richards, A. S., Bessarabova, E., Banas, J. A., & Bernard, D. R. (2022). Reducing psychological reactance to health promotion messages: Comparing preemptive and postscript mitigation strategies.  Health Communication , 37 (3), 366-374, https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2020.1839203

Richards, A. S., Bessarabova, E., Banas, J. A., & Larsen, M. (2021). Freedom-prompting reactance mitigation strategies function differently across levels of trait reactance.  Communication Quarterly Communication Quarterly, 69,  238-25.  https://doi.org/10.1080/01463373.2021.1920443

So, J., Ahn, J., & Guan, M. (2022). Beyond depth and breadth: Taking “types” of health information sought into consideration with cluster analysis. Journal of Health Communication, 27(1), 27–36. https://doi.org/10.1080/10810730.2022.2029978

Terui, S., Huang. J., Goldsmith, J., Blackard, D., Yang, Y., &  Miller, C. H.  (2020). Promoting transformative community change for equitable health: Peer education and intervention for pre-exposure HIV prophylaxis.  Journal of Health Communication: International Perspectives.

Turner, M. M., Richards, A. S.,  Bessarabova, E.,  & Magid, Y. (2020). The effects of anger appeals on systematic processing and intentions: The moderating role of efficacy.  Communication Reports, 33 , 14-26, doi:10.1080/08934215.2019.1682175

Zhao, X., Guan, M. , Liang, X. (2022). The impact of social media use on online collective action during China’s COVID-19 pandemic mitigation: A social identity model of collective action (SIMCA) perspective. International Journal of Communication, 16, 85-106. https://ijoc.org/index.php/ijoc/article/view/17576

Zhu, Y., Guan, M. , & Donovan, E. (2020). Elaborating cancer opinion leaders’ communication behaviors within online health communities: Network and content analyses. Social Media + Society, 6(2), 1–13. https://doi.org/10.1177/2056305120909473

Zhuang, J., & Guan, M. (2022). Modeling the mediating and moderating roles of risk perceptions, efficacy, desired uncertainty, and worry in information seeking-cancer screening relationship using HINTS 2017 data. Health Communication, 37(7), 897-908. https://doi.org/10.1080/10410236.2021.1876324

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Welcome to the  Graduate Program in Communication  at Purdue University.

Communication studies at Purdue University celebrate a long and distinguished  history , having offered masters degrees since 1947 and granted doctoral degrees since 1948. As our field has developed over time, Purdue faculty and graduate students have been at the forefront leading those advancements in discovery, learning, and engagement.

Our award-winning  faculty   are some of the top scholars in our field and have made major theoretical, methodological and applied contributions to the study of Communication. Our faculty consists of some of the most prolific scholars in the field. Indeed, the  Chronicle of Higher Education’s “Top Research University Faculty Scholar Productivity Index” for 2007 placed Purdue at No. 2 in the nation.

Our graduate students are award-winning as well and have received national and international recognition for their research and teaching. Many of our graduate students have solo-authored or collaborative publications and are actively involved in individual research projects or research teams. Our graduate students have also received university and national recognition for excellence in teaching. They work with faculty as teaching assistants and teach courses on their own. Many of our graduate students also work on grant-funded research with faculty.

In addition, our Communication Graduate Student Association (CGSA) organizes professional development opportunities and social activities for our school. 

Our graduate program is organized along six instructional units:

• Health and Risk Communication
• Interpersonal Communication
• Media, Technology & Society
• Organizational Communication
• Political Communication
• Public Relations

We also offer an  online Master’s of Science in Communication.

Additionally, our graduate students have opportunities for  interdisciplinary study  including:

• Combined Communication/Master’s of Science in Human Resource Management program with Purdue’s Krannert School of Management
• Joint Ph.D. Program in Communication and Philosophy
• Dual title Ph.D. in Communication and Gerontology
• Ph.D.   and  MS  in Information Security with Purdue’s Center for Education and Research in Information Assurance and Security (CERIAS)
• Masters in Public Health
• Health Communication track in the Masters of Public Health degree program .

Purdue graduate students can earn either a thesis or non-thesis Masters degree or a Doctoral degree with the opportunity to develop their own major and minor area(s) of study. Each degree program consists of certain requirements, yet at the same time, our graduate students have tremendous flexibility in designing a plan of study that meets their interests.

Another strength of our graduate program is its diversity. Our graduate student community consists of individuals from China, Germany, India, Lebanon, South Korea, Turkey, and the United States, to name a few. Our community members’ diversity contributes to the diversity of thought that you will find in our program. In addition, our faculty and graduate students embrace diverse approaches to research.

This is an exciting time to be a member of the Lamb School of Communication at Purdue. I invite you to continue to explore our website and learn more about our graduate program. I also encourage you to get in touch with me at  [email protected] , to learn more about opportunities for graduate studies in Communication at Purdue. We look forward to hearing from you.

With very best wishes,

Evan K. Perrault, Ph.D. Director of Graduate Studies 765-496-6429 | [email protected]

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The nexus between climate change, extreme air pollution events and public health – towards a holistic approach, phd research project.

PhD Research Projects are advertised opportunities to examine a pre-defined topic or answer a stated research question. Some projects may also provide scope for you to propose your own ideas and approaches.

Self-Funded PhD Students Only

This project does not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

Understanding interactions between chronic kidney disease and mental health to improve holistic, intelligence-led care

Funded phd project (uk students only).

This research project has funding attached. It is only available to UK citizens or those who have been resident in the UK for a period of 3 years or more. Some projects, which are funded by charities or by the universities themselves may have more stringent restrictions.

A decentralized, data driven health monitoring and diagnostics platform based on Artificial Intelligence (AI) and wearable/portable Internet of Medical Things (IoMT) sensors

Football cooperative, a community based physical activity social intervention for men: an assessment of effectiveness when replicated at scale using a social return on investment (sroi) framework(setu_2024_236), funded phd project (students worldwide).

This project has funding attached, subject to eligibility criteria. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but its funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

Simulation-Based Education for Allied Health Professions (Project ID SHSC0056)

Applied dementia studies (phd, faculty of health studies).

The PhD opportunities on this programme do not have funding attached. You will need to have your own means of paying fees and living costs and / or seek separate funding from student finance, charities or trusts.

PhD Research Programme

PhD Research Programmes present a range of research opportunities shaped by a university’s particular expertise, facilities and resources. You will usually identify a suitable topic for your PhD and propose your own project. Additional training and development opportunities may also be offered as part of your programme.

Transforming Lives PhD Scholarship, Sheffield Hallam University - Developing an exercise-based lifestyle intervention for people with the rare genetic condition, vascular Ehlers-Danlos syndrome.

Competition funded phd project (students worldwide).

This project is in competition for funding with other projects. Usually the project which receives the best applicant will be successful. Unsuccessful projects may still go ahead as self-funded opportunities. Applications for the project are welcome from all suitably qualified candidates, but potential funding may be restricted to a limited set of nationalities. You should check the project and department details for more information.

An intervention to improve deaf children’s social communication skills

Football cooperative, a community based physical activity social intervention for men: translational formative evaluation of a replication study to inform national and international dissemination(ref: setu_2024_213)., understanding how electrical communication can regulate metabolic cycles in bacteria biofilms, the use digital tools and online information for the self-management of health, revolutionising connectivity of medical wearable devices: harnessing deep learning to enhance network performance and sustainability, pre-registration health care students’ experiences of the safe learning environment charter (slec), harnessing machine learning to mitigate adverse outcomes of preterm birth, behaviour and welfare of hong kong’s free-ranging feral bovids (cattle and water buffalo).

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• Stimulating Demand:  An Assessment of the Conditional Cash Transfer Project in Afghanistan

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• Exploring Attitudes and Perceptions of Policymakers and Health Researchers Towards Evidence-Based Health Policymaking in Argentina: A Mixed Methods Approach
• Dual Practice in Kampala, Uganda: A Mixed Methods Study of Management and Policy
• Understanding Political Priority Development for Public Health Issues in Turkey: Lessons from Tobacco Control & Road Safety
• Academic Knowledge Brokers in Kenya: A Mixed Methods Study of Relationships, Characteristics and Strategies
• Decision-Making for Allocation of Public Resources in Decentralized District Health Systems in Uganda

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• Antenatal and Delivery Care in Afghanistan Knowledge and Perceptions of Services, Decision Making for Service Use, and Determinants of Utilization
• Early Maternal Morbidity and Utilization of Delivery Services by Urban Slum Women of Dhaka, Bangladesh
• An Assessment of Maternal Health Service Needs of Immigrant Women Living in East Calgary, Canada
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• Comparison of Biomarker Surveillance of Measles Immunity to Conventional Indicators of Vaccination Coverage
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• Family Relationships and Social Interaction in Post-Conflict South Kivu Province, Eastern Democratic Republic of Congo A Mixed Methods Study with Women from Rural Walungu Territory
• Utilization of Health Services for Children after the Tsunami in Aceh, Indonesia
• Factors Affecting School Enrollments in a Post-Repatriation Context: A Study of Household Roles, Attitudes and Forced Migration Processes in Urban Somaliland
• A Balanced Scorecard for Assessing the Quality and Provision of Health Services in UNHCR Refugee Camps

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• Road Traffic Injuries In China: Time Trends, Risk Factors and Economic Development
• Evaluating an Intervention to Prevent Motorcycle Injuries in Malaysia: Process Performance, and Policy
• Injuries and Socioeconomic Status in Iganga and Mayuge, Uganda: Inequities, Consequences and Impacts
• A neglected epidemic of childhood drowning in Bangladesh: Epidemiology, risk factors and potential interventions

Equity and fairness in distribution of health services

• Gender and Access to DOTS Program (Directly Observed Treatment, Short-Course) in a Poor, Rural and Minority Area of Gansu Province, China
• Empowering the Socially Excluded: A Study of Impact on Equity by Gender, Caste and Wealth in Access to Health Care in Rural Parts of Four North Indian States
• Gender, Empowerment, and Women's Health in India: Perceived Morbidity and Treatment-Seeking Behaviors for Symptoms of Reproductive Tract Infections among Women of Rural Gujarat
• Trust in Maternity Care:  A Contextual Exploration of Meaning and Determinants in Peri-Urban Kenya
• The Effect of Contracting for Health Services on the Equity of Utilization and Out-of-Pocket Health Expenditure in Rural Afghanistan

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• The Equity and Cost-Effectiveness of HIV Voluntary Counseling and Testing in Tanzania
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• Willingness-to-Pay and Cost-Benefit Analysis on Introducing HIB Conjugate Vaccine into the Thai Expanded Program on Immunization
• Economic Evaluation of the Costs and Cost-Effectiveness of the Diarrhea Alleviation through Zinc and Oral Rehydration Therapy Program at Scale in Gujarat, India
• The Economics of Non-Communicable Diseases in Rural Bangladesh: Understanding Education Gradients in Mortality and Household Wealth Impacts from an Adult Death

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• Measuring the Burden of Disease: Introducing Healthy Life Years
• Measuring the Burden of Injuries in Pakistan Epidemiological and Policy Analysis
• Strengths and Limitations of Population-Based Health Surveys in Developing Countries: A Case Study of National Health Survey of Pakistan: 1990-94
• Approaches to Measuring Non-Fatal Health Outcomes: Disability at the Iganga-Mayuge Demographic Surveillance System in Uganda
• A National Burden of Disease Study for The United Arab Emirates (UAE): Quantifying Health Differentials Between Nationals and Migrants