About Communicating for Impact

Communicating for Impact provides guidance for handling communication problems in everyday life. This means that we seek to focus attention on the application of communication scholarship, particularly questions about what can be done with communication theory and research findings that can affect how we think about, do, feel about, and create knowledge and strategies concerning challenges we face. By highlighting scholars across our discipline and their research-inspired strategies, we can collectively uncover hidden gems of tried-and-true practices as well as emerging ideas to help better our lives.

About the host

Patrice Buzzanell

Patrice M. Buzzanell (Ph.D., Purdue) is a Distinguished University Professor in and immediate Past Chair of the Department of Communication at the University of South Florida as well as Endowed Visiting Professor for the School of Media and Design at Shanghai Jiaotong University. Most recently, she has been honored with the 2021 Steven H. Chaffee Career Achievement Award from the International Communication Association (ICA) Her research coalesces around career, work-life policy, resilience, gender, and engineering design in micro-macro contexts. Her internal and external grants total around $3.5 million with her NSF funding focusing on engineering ethics scales and everyday ethical processes as well as design thinking for the professional formation of engineers.