Rate My Professor Collette Snowden

Dr Collette Snowden is a Senior Lecturer in Public Relations in the School of Communication, Media and Journalism, College of Creative Arts, Design and Humanities at Adelaide University. She earned her Doctor of Philosophy from the University of South Australia in 2006, a Graduate Diploma in Media from the Australian Film and Television School in 1991, and a Bachelor of Arts with Honours in Politics from the University of Adelaide in 1982. Before entering academia, Snowden worked as a journalist, media advisor to a Federal Minister, broadcaster, strategic communication advisor, freelance writer, broadcaster, and musician. She joined academia in 2005 as a Senior Lecturer at the University of South Australia, where she continued until recently transitioning to her current role.

Snowden's research focuses on communication and technology, including the social impact of technology on human communication, mobile communications and their convergence with emerging media, telephone communications, non-textual forms of communication such as oral, aural, and gestural, and public communication encompassing political communication, propaganda, the relationship between public relations and news media, and international public relations. Additional interests include media framing, media narratives, agenda setting, the mediatisation of trauma, media history, and the social effects of media and communication policies. Her publications include Waye, V. C., Snowden, C., Knowler, J., Zito, P., Burton, J., & McIntyre, J. (2024). Is mandatory disclosure an effective panacea for buyer beware? Journal of Property, Planning and Environmental Law, 16(3), 218-236; Olijnyk, A., Waye, V., McIntyre, J., Knowler, J., Snowden, C., et al. (2021). Maximising the Pivot to Online Courts: Digital Transformation, Not Mere Digitisation. Journal of Judicial Administration, 30(3), 126-152; Snowden, C., & Lewis, S. (2015). Mixed messages: public communication about higher education and non-traditional students in Australia. Higher Education; Glenny, L., & Snowden, C. (2014). Knowledge Translation in Public Relations. Asia Pacific Public Relations Journal, 15(1), 1-5; Snowden, C. (2012). From epigrams to tweets. Asiatic, 6(2), 81-95; and Snowden, C. (2012). 'I'm alright thanks': non-conformity and the media framing of social inclusion. Media International Australia, 142, 64-73. Her scholarship has been cited over 280 times. Snowden is eligible to supervise Masters and PhD students and belongs to the International Association of Media and Communication Research and the Society for the History of Technology.