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PhD (Queensland University of Technology), MBus(Comm) (Queensland University of Technology), BNur (Northern Territory University)
Professor Kim Johnston (PhD; MBus; GradCertAcadPrac; BNursing; GenCertNursing) researches communication engagement, social impact, and strategic communication, particularly focusing on how organisations influence stakeholders in a range of community, corporate and government settings. Professor Johnston leads the Stakeholder Engagement Research Group. Her research focuses on community engagement for preparedness and resilience in disasters, the environment, social impact and social license to operate, with extended research interests in workplace communication (employee engagement). Dr Johnston teaches postgraduate and undergraduate public relations courses in community engagement, issues management, and corporate media strategy. She is on the editorial boards of leading discipline journals including Public Relations Review, the International Journal of Corporate Communication, and the US Institute of Public Relations PR Journal. She is also editor of the Handbook of Communication Engagement. Dr Johnston's research interests include:
- Engagement - community and employee
- Social impact and social license to operate
- Internal or workplace communication
- Strategic and brand related communication
- Organisational culture and knowledge structures (as they relate to internal communication)
- Public relations theory
- Ethnography and qualitative methods.
SUPERVISION: Dr Johnston welcomes supervision requests for PhD and Masters (research) students in these areas or topics (under consumers, markets and stakeholders):
- Communication and engagement
- Internal communication
- Ethnography
AWARDS: Dr Johnston has received a number of academic, team and industry awards:
- 2022: PRIA Researcher of the Year
- 2020: International Champion of Change Award (Community - Group) - Highly Commended - Inspector General Emergency Management Queensland
- 2018: USA National Communication Award (PR Division) PRIDE Book Award (Innovation, development and education) - awarded for the Handbook of Communication Engagement
- 2015: QUT Vice-Chancellor Performance Award - contribution to research culture
- 2012: QUT Outstanding Doctoral Thesis Award (2011)
- 2010: Vice-Chancellor Award for Excellence Nominee – Faculty Research Ethics Advisors Team
- 2006: QUT – Team Teaching Award – Faculty of Business
- 2004: QUT – Team Teaching Award – Commendation, Faculty of Business
- 2002: PRIA – State Awards for Excellence – Highly Commended – Issues / Crisis Management
- 2002: PRIA Golden Target Awards: Highly Commended – Issues/ Crisis Management
Additional information
Research Projects - Funded
- 2022 - 2024 - Discovery Grant - Enhancing and evaluating stakeholder engagement for improved water outcomes - with Professor Yong Ping (UQ) and Professor Brian Head (UQ); Funded by ARC
- 2022 - Community Floods 2022 (NSW and QLD): Funded by Natural Hazards Research Australia
- 2021 - Community Awareness and Resilience Evaluation Framework: Brisbane Strategic Flood Plain Management - IGEMQ
- 2018 - 2019 - Community Engagement for Preparedness Study - Bushfire Natural Hazards CRC Tactical Research Fund
- 2016 - 2019 - Annual SEQ Waterways Community Engagement Study - (Annual Report Card Social Data) Healthy Land and Water
- 2017- 2018 - Public Sentiment Study Queensland Government
- 2016 - 2017 - Social Impact Study - Australian Meat Processor Corporation
- 2015 - Social Values and Use Study - Healthy Waterways Ltd
- 2015 - Reader engagement study - Gold Cross Pty Ltd
- 2013 - Employee engagement and internal communication - RACQ
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2022
- Details
- Researcher of the Year - Public Relations Institute of Australia Golden Target Awards 2022
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- PRIDE Award for outstanding Innovation, Development, and Educational Achievement in Public Relations
- Type
- Appointment to Prestigious Positions
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Board Member - Appointed to Metro North Hospital and Health Service Board
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2018
- Details
- Appointed to the editorial board of Public Relations Review
- Type
- Editor/Contributor of a Prestigious Work of Reference
- Reference year
- 2017
- Details
- Editor - Handbook of Communication Engagement (Wiley) - 2018
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2016
- Details
- Editorial Board Member - Corporate Communications: An International Journal
- Type
- Academic Honours, Prestigious Awards or Prizes
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- QUT Vice Chancellor's Performance Award for Research
- Type
- Editorial Role for an Academic Journal
- Reference year
- 2015
- Details
- Editorial Board Member Journal of Public Relations Research: 2012-2015
- Johnston, K. & Lane, A. (2021). Communication with intent: A typology of communicative interaction in engagement. Public Relations Review, 47(1). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/200921
- Hurst, B. & Johnston, K. (2021). The social imperative in public relations: Utilities of social impact, social license and engagement. Public Relations Review, 47(2). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/210222
- Taylor, M., Ryan, B. & Johnston, K. (2020). The missing link in emergency management: evaluating community engagement. Australian Journal of Emergency Management, 35(1), 45–52.
- Johnston, K. & Lane, A. (2019). An authenticity matrix for community engagement. Public Relations Review, 45(4), 1–13. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/130765
- Johnston, K., Ryan, B. & Taylor, M. (2019). Mapping approaches to community engagement for preparedness in Australia (Report No. 515). https://eprints.qut.edu.au/133140
- Johnston, K. & Taylor, M. (2018). The Handbook of Communication Engagement. Wiley-Blackwell. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/109613
- Johnston, K. & Lane, A. (2018). Building relational capital: The contribution of episodic and relational community engagement. Public Relations Review, 44(5), 633–644. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/122200
- Johnston, K. & Lane, A. (2018). The role of time and social churn in impact assessment: An engagement-based model. Environmental Impact Assessment Review, 71, 102–109. https://eprints.qut.edu.au/118018
- Title
- Enhancing and evaluating stakeholder engagement for improved water outcomes
- Primary fund type
- CAT 1 - Australian Competitive Grant
- Project ID
- DP220103054
- Start year
- 2022
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