Leeds Beckett University - City Campus,
Woodhouse Lane,
LS1 3HE
Dr Liz Yeomans
Part-time Lecturer
Dr Liz Yeomans was Reader in Public Relations and Communication at Leeds Business School, Leeds Beckett University until her retirement from full time academic work in January 2019. She continues to supervise doctoral work at LBU, and is peer reviewer for journals in public relations and communication management. She remains interested in the emotional dimension of organisations and public relations’ role in society and culture.
Liz has 25 years' experience of university teaching, research, curriculum development, course co-ordination and management - including three years leading the subject group for PR and Journalism at Leeds Beckett University. While retired from full-time academic work, Liz continues to write and publish, and reviews articles for publication in academic journals. Her most recent publication is Public Relations as Emotional Labour, published by Routledge.
Liz co-supervises a PhD thesis on dialogue and PR at Leeds Beckett University and is an external examiner at Queen Margaret University, Scotland.
Research Interests
Emotion in society, culture and organisations; professional/occupational identities; inequalities in the workplace, including gender; feminist perspectives in PR; employee communications; digital culture/digital labour; critical/cultural qualitative methods including discourse analysis.
Liz's monograph, Public Relations as Emotional Labour (2019), contributes new knowledge to public relations scholarship, with application to related professions/occupations.
"Dr Yeomans is one of the leading public relations scholars in relational practice and gender issues and within this book she makes significant theoretical contributions to the field of public relations, focusing on the study of emotionality and gender." — Judy Motion, Professor of Communication, Environmental Humanities, University of New South Wales, Australia.
