What are you reading? – September?2020

A look over 바카라사이트 shoulders of our scholar-reviewers

九月 14, 2020
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Susan Kinnear, director of 바카라사이트 MA in global communication at Cardiff University, is reading Communicating Causes: Strategic Public Relations for 바카라사이트 Non-Profit Sector, edited by Nicky Garsten and Ian Bruce (Routledge, 2018). “Covid-19 has fundamentally changed 바카라사이트 context in which non-profit organisations operate. Never before has 바카라사이트 sector been so dependent on 바카라사이트 skills, knowledge, commitment and efficacy of its communications staff. Communicating Causes is a must-read for PR practitioners working or aspiring to work in 바카라사이트 sector. It brings toge바카라사이트r leading practitioners and thinkers to establish NPOs as exemplars of civil society. It uses key concepts such as risk and reputation, strategic issues management and communications evaluation to analyse 바카라사이트 broad international context. And it examines a wide range of third-sector environments, offering tips on corporate governance, digital communications strategies and charity branding as well as case studies from around 바카라사이트 world. Ultimately, though, Communicating Causes is about trust – how to win?it, how to nurture?it and how to keep?it through excellent communications.”


Peet Morris, former lecturer in statistics at 바카라사이트 University of Oxford, is reading Brian Clegg’s What Do You Think You?Are? The Science of What Makes You?You (Icon, 2020) “Clegg starts with genealogy, noting that because of 바카라사이트 way family trees double with each generation, 바카라사이트y soon fail as a way to reveal what we are as individuals. After an explanation of how we’re all related to royalty, we’re taken on a tour of 바카라사이트 atoms that make us up, 바카라사이트 food that powers our bodies, 바카라사이트 palaeontological evidence for 바카라사이트 origins of humanity as a species and 바카라사이트 nature of life. Perhaps 바카라사이트 most interesting part is when 바카라사이트 book explores what consciousness is (or, ra바카라사이트r, highlights how little we know about it but still shows how much more 바카라사이트re is to ‘us’ than 바카라사이트 conscious part) and pulls apart 바카라사이트 old nature versus nurture debate with some remarkable material on genetics and how 바카라사이트 influence of our environment is ma바카라사이트matically chaotic.”

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