Dr Renee Mickelburgh
Researcher biography
Dr Renée Mickelburgh is a communication scholar at the University of Queensland (UQ). With over two decades of experience in communication — from journalism and political communication, through to civil society and now academia — Renée lectures and coordinates courses in media strategies and strategic communication. Her research considers how emotions circulate in the communication of wicked problems: specifically, gender violence and environmental justice. She is also concerned with how emerging technologies — particularly artificial intelligence — are reshaping strategic communication, advocacy, and public discourse.
Renée is the author of The ecofeminist storyteller: environmental communication through women's digital garden stories and has co-authored book chapters and journal articles focussed on the communicaiton of sexual consent among young adults. She has worked as a research fellow for UQ's Sexual and Gender Violence Research Network and is now deputy lead of the School of Communication and Arts AI working Party. The AI Working Party aims to connect teachers, researchers and industry experts across disciplines including strategic communication, creative writing, literary studies, drama, digital media, and museum studies and provide a coordinated response to the opportunities and risks posed by AI. As an affiliate of UQ's Centre for Communication and Social Change, she contributes to discussions on AI for public good and AI's impact on women.
Renée follows the transformative approaches of leading feminist writers and scholars by engaging with creative methods of inquiry in her teaching and research.
Renée is open to supervision and welcomes inquires from potential post-graduate students in the following areas:
- Feminist environmental communication
- Gender violence
- Feminist media studies
- Participatory research methods
- Affective and creative methodologies
- Strategic communication and advocacy
- Digital intimacies