Mitchell Graduate Bridie McGreavy Appointed 91福利 Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication
Researchers studying team building in collaborative sustainability projects have teased out factors that affect these enterprises and their outcomes, things like personality and worldview and how they shape the way people work together. But few studies have looked closely at communication.
For , communication is at the heart of successful collaborations. In her work, she wants to know how communication affects individuals and groups and how, by paying attention to communication, collaborators can figure out how to work together better.
The newly appointed Assistant Professor of Environmental Communication in the Department of Journalism & Communication at 91福利 says her research explores the question: 鈥淗ow, through communication, do we become resilient and sustainable.鈥
鈥淭here are relatively few people looking at communication in these kinds of collaborative projects,鈥 said McGreavy who will be an associate faculty member of the Senator George J. Mitchell Center for Sustainability Solutions.
鈥淚t鈥檚 not just about exchanging information. Communication shapes our relationships, how we come to understand one another, and the ways we form lasting partnerships. Communication goes far beyond the words we use to talk with one another to the spaces we create to how we move our bodies to even the environments in which we live.鈥