A Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of the Lack of Physically Disabled Public Relations Practitioners

Vardeman-Winter, Jennifer2019-06-242019-06-24December 22018-12December 2https://hdl.handle.net/10657/4085This paper explores the perceptions of physically disabled practitioners in the public relations field. The purpose of the study was to get disabled practitioner’s perspectives on the industry to explore how the public relations field is falling behind when recruiting from this group. A qualitative study was done using open-ended interview questions, with the goal of receiving experiences from disabled practitioner’s on their time in the industry, discrimination they faced, and how they feel public relations can improve.application/pdfengThe author of this work is the copyright owner. UH Libraries and the Texas Digital Library have their permission to store and provide access to this work. Further transmission, reproduction, or presentation of this work is prohibited except with permission of the author(s).Public relationsDisabilityDisabledFeminist theory of disabilityA Qualitative Study on the Perceptions of the Lack of Physically Disabled Public Relations Practitioners2019-06-24Thesisborn digital