Annual Student Research in Communication Conference

When: Thursday, April 3, 2025 

Where: Student Alumni Union, RIT campus

Register: Online with this form>

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

Faculty, undergraduate students, graduate students, high school students, and members of the community are invited to attend the conference and learn from these scholars. To register, please use this form>.

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.  

More than 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.

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. 

Poster session presentations should represent research projects and results in an interesting visual form. At least one author of the project must be present at the poster session to discuss the poster with attendees. 

Please submit your work here.  

Please reach out to: Professors Kari Cameron (klcgpt@rit.edu), Claudia Bucciferro (cbgpt@rit.edu), and/or Nickesia Gordon (nsggpt@rit.edu). 

Upon notification of acceptance, there will be an opportunity to submit a completed paper in PDF form at a later date. Completed papers will be eligible for awards.