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Latest talks from Griffith University
Listen to a wide range of hot topics from Griffith University that can help improve government communication.
Critical Health Literacy of Students during the COVID-19 Pandemic
Professor Thomas Abel from the Institute of Social and Preventive Medicine and Christiane Stock, Professor at Charitè Berlin, discuss the theory behind Critical Health Literacy and the role it plays in the COVID-19 pandemic.
The Power Shift: An Equity Lens on Social Marketing
In this session from the 2020 GovComms Festival, Tracey Bridges discusses how government can help to reduce inequalities through effective communication.
Health Behaviour Change: Understanding how to Change Behaviours to Prevent Diseases
Research Fellow Dr. Mohammad Kadir from Social Marketing @ Griffith discusses how communicators can assist in creating behaviour change campaigns to help create a healthier society and prevent diseases.
From Feelings to Action: Emotional Advertising Effectiveness
In this session from the 2020 GovComms Festival, Research Assistant at Griffith University Murooj Yousef discusses the role of emotions in marketing campaigns that aim to change our behaviour.
‘Health is in your Hands’: Motivating Children to Wash Their Hands
The CEO of La LinkUp Factory Sandrine Raffin and Professor at AgroParisTech Patricia Gurviez discuss Vivons en Forme, a community-based program that began in 2005 and is dedicated to promoting healthier lifestyles.
Cross Sector Partnerships
Associate Professor Sameer Deshpande and Marketing Researcher Alexander Campbell from Griffith University discuss the advantages, disadvantages and types of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and how it can be put into practice to help improve the brand perception of your not-for-profit, public sector or corporate business.
Working with People Centric Data in the New Normal
Amir Aryani and Dr. Tom Verhelst discuss how COVID-19 has changed the function of data analytics, and how people-centric data will become the new normal.
Managing Multi-Actor Engagement on Social Media
In this session from the 2020 GovComms Festival, Sara Shawky discusses the nature of successful engagement and how social media can unlock positive engagement.
What does a Modern Government Communications Function and Skill-Set look like?
Donna van Bueren from the Behaviour Change Collaborative and Sean Larkins from the UK WPP Government and Public Sector Practice discuss their 2017 paper that looks into government communications, and how the papers findings can be utilised today.
The Fear Appeal in Prevention: The COVID Case
In this presentation from the 2020 GovComms Festival, our speakers discuss the role of fear in communications, and how appeals to fear were used during the COVID-19 pandemic. When can appeals to fear be useful, and when can they go too far?
Acing your Digital Marketing
Dr. Timo Dietrich and PhD Candidate Yannick Van Hierden from Social Marketing @ Griffith discuss and explain their 5-step digital marketing process and the importance it plays for every business with a digital brand presence.
Do You See Me? The Importance of Audience Insights for Building Sustainable COVID-19 related Public Health Strategy
Tanja Kamin and Nina Perger from the University of Ljubljana in Slovenia discuss the importance of audience insights to building public health strategies during the COVID-19 pandemic.
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