Associate Professor Sky Marsen

Sky Marsen has an international background with expertise in organizational communication, professional writing and discourse studies. Her research broadly focuses on how language is used in professional contexts and the effects of writing style and document design on achieving different purposes. She has researched and taught a range of communication subjects, including the ways organizations manage and respond to crisis, media technologies, and social perceptions of science. Her approach is informed by narrative theory, semiotics, and text analysis.

Sky Marsen has extensive experience in advising graduate students and researchers on communicating to different audiences and in different media, on writing grant applications, and publishing. Also, she advises scientists on communicating with the public. For example, she has worked with researchers on language and communication strategies at NASA Jet Propulsion Lab, Caltech, and the Center for Excellence in Research, University of Southern California. In addition to academic experience, she consults business clients.

Among her professional engagements, Dr Marsen serves as Associate Editor of the International Journal of Business Communication, Chair of the Research Committee of the Association for Business Communication, member of the Regional Advisory Committee of the Global Council for Anthropological Linguistics, and member of the Editorial Boards of The Journal of Communication and the Journal of Contingencies and Crisis Management.

At Flinders University, she developed and coordinates the Bachelor of Media and Communication in which she teaches crisis communication, discourse studies, strategic communication, and business communication, and the graduate course Communicating Research.

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