Institute for Public Relations Research
Public relations research can serve to define not only what we know, but also what we don’t. The Institute for Public Relations supports PR research, and makes this knowledge widely available to practitioners, educators, researchers and the clients they serve.
The Institute’s public relations research program is guided by the Institute for Public Relations Research Fellows, the Board of Trustees, by various Institute Commissions and by colleagues in the academic and professional communities. All of our published PR research is available free through this website.
Twenty countries represented by 36 papers on the history of public relations shows that this “niche” area of study is becoming an important field of research. That’s the basic math of the abstracts for this year’s International History of Public Relations Conference to be held at Bournemouth University in England on July 11-12.
Members of the Institute for Public Relations’ Commission on PR Measurement and Evaluation wrote a series of articles that first appeared in the May 2011 issue of PRSA’s PR Tactics magazine and now are available on the IPR web site.
Dr. Julie O'Neil's white paper recommends and describes how many of the IPR Measurement Commission white papers can be used in the classroom. The TCU professor's paper includes a synopsis of recent books on PR research, measurement, and evaluation.
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