A representative of the PRIA Board, and other interested parties. This consensual, participative approach delivers academic support for, and ownership of, the program. To this end, Nigel de Bussy from Curtin University has offered to chair the committee in 2001, and Leeora Black from Monash University has offered to continue to provide support. A global call for papers should be issued with six months lead time, rather than three, to allow for development and writing of research papers from all parts of the world. The Research Prize should be promoted as a key feature of the program.
Research is an idea whose time has come.
The further development of this sphere of activity will contribute to improved standards of research and practice among public relations practitioners and educators in Australia. It will also help position the PRIA among its peer organisations as a centre for international excellence in developing the public relations body of knowledge. With ongoing activity and further development, the PRIA s research group can realistically aim to organise and host the world s best public relations research conference as part of the PRIA-IPRA program in Hobart in 2004.