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Public Engagement
Institutional communication, public engagement, and external relations for AQIRI.
Communications and Public Relations
The Communications and Public Relations Department manages AQIRI’s institutional communication, public engagement, and external relations.
Its work is concerned with how the Institute presents its research, publications, academic programmes, events, and institutional activities to scholars, authors, universities, partner organisations, readers, and the wider public. The Department also helps maintain a consistent public identity across AQIRI’s official communication and digital platforms.
Working closely with academic and administrative departments, it ensures that institutional information is communicated accurately, appropriately, and in a manner consistent with the scholarly character of the Institute.
Department Responsibilities
The Department prepares and coordinates official announcements, notices, institutional updates, newsletters, academic calls, programme information, and other public communications issued by AQIRI.
It also supports the preparation of institutional profiles and information concerning the Institute’s research, publications, programmes, and major academic activities.
AQIRI maintains relationships with scholars, authors, universities, research centres, publishers, professional networks, and other academic organisations.
The Department supports these relationships through formal communication, institutional correspondence, academic outreach, and coordination around collaborative or public-facing activities.
The Department works with AQIRI’s publishing and research teams to communicate new publications, journal issues, books, research projects, calls for papers, and other scholarly developments.
Its role is to present academic work clearly and responsibly without reducing scholarly communication to conventional commercial promotion.
The Department coordinates AQIRI’s communication across its official website, social media channels, newsletters, and other digital platforms.
Digital communication includes institutional news, publication updates, programme announcements, scholarly opportunities, academic events, and selected material intended to extend the reach of the Institute’s work.
Communication support is provided for conferences, workshops, lectures, seminars, book launches, training programmes, and other academic activities organised or supported by the Institute.
This may include announcements, programme information, speaker communication, event material, and post-event reporting.
The Department helps maintain consistency in AQIRI’s public presentation, including institutional language, visual identity, publication announcements, official profiles, and other outward-facing material.
The objective is to ensure that public communication reflects the academic character and institutional standards of AQIRI.
Communicating Scholarship
Public engagement at AQIRI is intended to extend the reach of scholarly work while preserving its academic context.
The Department therefore works to make research, publications, programmes, and academic opportunities more accessible to appropriate audiences without compromising accuracy, intellectual substance, or scholarly standards.
Where communication concerns specialised research or academic matters, relevant departments and subject specialists may be consulted before material is released publicly.
Institutional and Media Enquiries
The Communications and Public Relations Department serves as a point of contact for institutional enquiries, academic outreach, collaboration-related communication, publication announcements, media requests, and public information concerning AQIRI.
Requests requiring specialist academic, editorial, or administrative consideration are referred to the appropriate office or department.
Department Leadership
The Department is led by the Director, Communications and Public Relations, supported by communications, public relations, digital media, and outreach personnel according to institutional requirements.
Staff profiles, where appropriate, may be maintained separately through AQIRI’s institutional directory.
Contact
For institutional communication, academic partnerships, media enquiries, event communication, and other public engagement matters, please contact the Communications and Public Relations Department.