HDR Students (postgraduate)
Master's and PhD
Dr Robinson is open to new supervisions, especially when they align with her research and teaching areas. Jenny has supervised and examined (post)graduate research for 20+ years in Australia and USA, allowing her to be familiar with different thesis structures and examination processes. Grounded in the social sciences, she can supervise students using a range of methods and different research paradigms.
Research areas of interest for supervision: strategic public relations and messaging in environmental, political and risk communication contexts; media psychology and multisensory experience; and engagement ecologies, such as digital media engagement across the lifespan (children, young people, seniors)
Current Supervisions: PhD and MRes
Gregg, Emily. Saving the “Ugly Duckling”: Using messaging to increase public engagement with threatened species conservation.
Kidd, Lindall. Messaging matters: optimising strategies to elicit public action in support of threatened species conservation.
Ponce, Diana. Perceptions of artificial intelligence service-chatbots and brand affect in the hotel industry in Australia.
Alghanim, Bassam. Influencer marketing: An investigation of consumers' knowledge, perceptions and behaviour in Saudi Arabia.
Bilowol, Jade. The (inter)personal meets the professional: Exploring public relations practitioners' interpretations of social factors contributing to career burnout in public relations practice.
Paul, James. Using ecological semiotics to investigate designers’ capacity to act on perception, interpretation, and orientation: a practice-based research project.
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Completed PhD Supervisions
Sumaylo, Dennis (2022). Pre disaster communication and engagement practices in isolated communities: Power, relationships, and experiences in the Philippines.
Alharbi, Musaab (2021) Social media influencers in public affairs: Framing the Saudi Vision 2030 in the Middle Eastern context. RMIT University
Abdullah, Mohammad Ib. (2021) Branding and credibility through the lens of political public relations in multicultural democracy. RMIT University
Wong, Joshua (2019) Aspirational well-being and digital media: Southeast Asian international students’ use of digital media and their pursuit of the good life in Melbourne, Australia. RMIT University
Hendry, Natalie (2017). Everyday anxieties: Young women, mental illness and social media practices of visibility and connection. RMIT University
Verhagen, Darrin (2015) Noise, music & perception: towards a functional understanding of noise composition. RMIT University
Juckel, Jenny (2014) What's so funny? Using a multidisciplinary approach to understand sitcom success. Murdoch University
Shipka, Danny (2007) Perverse titillation: A history of European exploitation films 1964-1980. University of Florida
Waters, Richard (2007) Advancing Relationship Management Theory: Coorientation and the Nonprofit-Donor Relationship. University of Florida
13 Masters thesis co-supervisions, Master Arts in Mass Communication (Public Relations), University of Florida (2005-2007)