A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of the Lack of Physically Disabled Public Relations Practitioners

This paper explores the perceptions of physically disabled practitioners in the public relations field. The purpose of the study was to get disabled practitioner’s perspectives on the industry to explore how the public relations field is falling behind when recruiting from this group. A qualitative study was done using open-ended interview questions, with the goal of receiving experiences from disabled practitioner’s on their time in the industry, discrimination they faced, and how they feel public relations can improve.

Name thesis:degree_name

Master of Arts

Level thesis:degree_level

Masters

Discipline thesis:degree_discipline

Communication

Grantor

University of Houston

Year dc:date.issued

2018

Author dc:creator

• Sebesta, Amanda

Advisor dc:contributor.advisor

• Vardeman-Winter, Jennifer

Committee members dc:contributor.committeemember

• Yamasaki, Jill
• Vera, Dusya M.

• Public relations
• Disability
• Disabled
• Feminist theory of disability

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• The author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).

Language dc:language.iso

eng

Handle dc:identifier.uri

https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4085

OAI identifier oai:identifier

oai:uh-ir.tdl.org:10657/4085