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Associate Professor Elizabeth Gray BA, MA, PhD

Associate Dean Teaching and Learning

Massey Business School - Deputy PVC's Office

My areas of research interest include written and oral communication demand in scientific and business workplaces and the teaching of oral communication competencies at tertiary level.  I have undertaken a national study of the oral communication skills expected of accounting graduates, by New Zealand accounting employers (reported in Business Communication Quarterly and Accounting Education, as well as other academic and practitioner outlets).

I am presently engaged in a long-term study of non-profit organisations and their digital communications with their stakeholders.  My collaborators and I have partnered with almost forty New Zealand non-profits to investigate their goals and practices regarding electronic newsletters, and we have surveyed over 16,000 recipients of these newsletters to better understand their reading practices and preferences.

I also undertake research in nineteenth-century women's poetry and journalism. I have written a book on Victorian women’s poetry (Christian and Lyric Tradition in Victorian Women's Poetry, Routledge 2010), and in 2012 published a book project on women’s journalism in the nineteenth century (Women and Journalism at the Fin de Siecle: Making a Name for Herself, Palgrave Macmillan 2012).  My work in this area has been funded in part by a Marsden FastStart Grant.  I am presently working on two nineteenth-century journalists, Alice Meynell and Dora Greenwell, and continuing work on a project on the intersection of journalism and poetry.

I teach professional writing, editing and publishing at undergraduate level, and also undertake graduate supervision.  My research interests include women's journalism history, workplace communication competencies (particularly oral communication), and stakeholder communication for non-profit organisations.

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  • Location: 5E09, Block 5
    Campus: Wellington

Qualifications

  • Bachelor of Arts - Massey University (1993)
  • Master of Arts - Massey University (1995)
  • Doctor of Philosophy - University of Virginia (2000)

Prizes and Awards

  • In 2015 I was the co-winner of the Christopher Newell Prize (awarded by the Australian and New Zealand Communication Association for the best paper dealing with matters relating to disability and communication, or to questions of equity, diversity and social justice as they pertain to communication), for the conference paper Gray, F. E., Hopkins, K., and Kirkwood, C., “Readable, audible, clickable: Accessible communication for the non-profit health sector.” The paper was subsequently expanded and published in Communication Research and Practice, 1.4, 2015. - Australia and New Zealand Communication Association (2015)

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