Research work · 2024
Organizational Communication
STACEY L. CONNAUGHTON
Public Scholarship in Communication Studies
Abstract
Public scholarship has been an integral part of organizational communication scholarship since the subfield’s inception. This chapter seeks to help advance the practice of public scholarship, or what scholars in organizational communication often call engaged scholarship, across the discipline, and to help move communication researchers, including organizational communication scholars, toward a productive dialogue about the constitution and doing of public scholarship. To do so, this chapter offers an examination of organizational communication scholars’ experiences with public/engaged scholarship, including classics and more recent engaged scholarship. It discusses opportunities and challenges associated with doing engaged scholarship and provide examples from the Purdue Peace Project, an engaged scholarship initiative that the author co-founded.