Annual Student Research in Communication Conference

When: Thursday, April 3, 2025 

Where: Student Alumni Union, RIT campus

Register: Sign Up via Google form >

On Thursday, April 3, 2025, the RIT School of Communication will host graduate and  undergraduate students from across New York state and beyond to share their research in communication and related disciplines during our Student Research in Communication Conference.   

Sponsored by the School of Communication and hosted annually at Rochester Institute of Technology, this conference originated in 2004. It began as a small gathering of communication students from western New York and has evolved into a vibrant regional conference.   

Over 20 years since its inception, the School of Communication continues to share our commitment to communication research and underscore our appreciation for those students whose work touches all edges of the discipline’s broad boundaries. 

Register to Attend: Whether you are faculty, an undergraduate student, graduate student, high school student, or member of the community, we invite you to register to attend the conference and learn from these scholars.
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Schedule:

• 8:30 a.m. Breakfast and Networking
• 9:30 a.m. – 12 p.m. Presentations
• 12 p.m. Lunch Break
• 12:30 p.m.  Presentations resume
• 3:30 p.m.Conference Concludes

Accommodations: If you are traveling to Rochester and will need hotel accommodations, the RIT Inn and Conference Center offers an RIT rate, which you can request upon booking. 
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Please email one or all of these RIT professors:

• Kari Cameron (klcgpt@rit.edu)
• Claudia Bucciferro (cbgpt@rit.edu)
• Nickesia Gordon (nsggpt@rit.edu) 

Graduate, undergraduate, and high school students are invited to submit research papers on any topic within the Communication field and related disciplines (including advertising, public relations, media studies, film studies, journalism, and others).

All research approaches and methodologies were welcome, including qualitative, quantitative, critical, and theoretical studies. Works-in-progress papers and research projects suitable for presentation in poster format are also encouraged. 

Papers may center on topics including, but not limited to: 

• Communication at the interpersonal, group, and organizational levels. 
• Health communication, visual communication, and intercultural communication. 
• Advertising and public relations campaigns and strategies. 
• Film, television, and audiovisual media. 
• Print media, journalism, and photojournalism. 
• Social media, digital media, and AI. 
• Communication and gender, race, ethnicity, and identity. 
• Communication and public advocacy. 
• Political communication and international communication. 

The works must be authored by one or more students and one student must submit a structured abstract of 500-1000 words, including: 

• Title  Purpose/goals of the study 

• Design/methodology/approach to explore the topic area (if applicable) 

• Findings/expected findings based on educated guess/main arguments/conclusion 

• Insights/implications 

• Originality/value of the study 

Research presentation in traditional format.

Individual presentations at the conference will be limited to 15 or 20 minutes, depending on whether there are three or four presenters in the same session.