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ProfessorLinda Jean Kenix

Head of School

Language, Social and Political Sciences

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  • Head of School
    Language, Social and Political Sciences
  • Professor
    Media and Communication
  • +6433695926 (Work)
  • Elsie Locke Building 601

TEACHING & SUPERVISION SUMMARy

Professor Linda Jean Kenix has taught the following courses in her academic career:

UNDERGRADUATE COURSES

  • Communicating Social Change
  • Introduction to Strategic Communication
  • Advertising and Cultural Consumption
  • Introduction to Mass Communication
  • Visual Media and Communication
  • Media and Politics
  • Visual Communication
  • Visual Journalism


POSTGRADUATE COURSES

  • From Proposal to Publication, An Introduction to Researching Media
  • Independent Media
  • The Changing Media Environment
  • Theories of Visual Communication

 

Linda Jean has repeatedly been nominated and has won several teaching awards.

 

TEACHING & SUPERVISION

  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Affective Engagement and Participatory Branding on Short-Video Platforms: The Case of Cun BA in Rural China
    1 Mar 2026
    Zhang, Zhenxian
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Extreme Climatic Events and Conspiracy Theories
    1 Feb 2026
    Jewell, Michelle
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Collective Trauma Response and Social Media
    1 Oct 2025
    Hansel, Niuscha
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Gen Z New Zealanders’ Confidence in Mainstream Media
    1 Jul 2025 - 31 Mar 2026
    Winslade, Samara
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Navigating Crisis Through Multimodal Communication: A Study of the Chinese Community's Response to the Auckland Floods
    1 Jul 2024
    Li, Junnan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Examining Communication Strategies by Select Dairy Companies in New Zealand in Promoting Carbon-Neutral Dairy Products and its Impact on Domestic Consumer Uptake
    1 Feb 2024 - 29 Feb 2024
    Vaidyanathan, Divya
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Breaking down the barriers to women’s financial wellbeing in New Zealand: A Theory of Planned Behaviour approach to developing a communication strategy for engaging women with long-term investing
    1 Feb 2023 - 29 Feb 2024
    Livermore, Neisha
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Crisis Communication on Instagram: Salient vs Superficial
    1 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
    Harding, Regan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Exploring the effectiveness that a campaign on plain English would have on external communications of the banking sector in Aotearoa
    1 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
    Fivet, Echna
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Pro-family framing in New Zealand: Evangelicals, politics and the pro family movement
    1 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
    Blythe, Ian
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Working During Lockdown: Impacts of Covid-19 on Internal Communication
    1 Feb 2021 - 31 Dec 2021
    Forde, Nohah
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Be Free Be Live: Exploring the beliefs and attitudes of young adults towards the use of eco-friendly and sustainable menstrual products
    1 Feb 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    Yung, Lisa
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Channel selection during a crisis
    1 Feb 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    Lowe, Declan
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Instagram and social movements: Evaluating how Instagram helped to mobilise the Fridays For Future
    1 Feb 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    Norris-Hibbert, Amy
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Recycling Behaviour in Christchurch, New Zealand: An Analysis of the CCC’s Communication of Recycling Knowledge
    1 Feb 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    Maher, Orla
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Comparative Analysis of NZ and US Leaders’ responses During the Covid-19 Pandemic
    1 Jan 2020 - 31 Dec 2020
    Garello, David
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    An Evaluation of 'That's Us' Anti-Racism Campaign in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Feb 2020
    Hyo, Jung Kim
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Communicating Social Change: Towards Gender Equality. A Campaign Evaluation
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Feb 2020
    Dhillon, Simran
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Deconstructing knowledge politics in the Dengvaxia vaccine controversy: A multimodal critical discourse analysis study
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Nov 2023
    Mendoza, Karl Patrick
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Public Interest Journalism for Crises
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jan 2020
    Stoakes, Emanuel
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Representations of Domestic Violence in NZ newspapers
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Jan 2020
    Marett, Alice
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    The promotion of electric vehicles in New Zealand
    1 Jan 2019 - 1 Feb 2020
    Shaylor, Rose
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Reasons for not voting in the 2018 University of Canterbury Student Association
    1 Jan 2018 - 1 Jan 2019
    Chen, Sherry
  • RESEARCH-BASED DEGREE SUPERVISION
    Ethical clothing and issues in visual texts: how persuasion knowledge induces maladaptive responses in ethically interested consumers
    1 Jan 2017 - 1 Jan 2019
    Perumbally, Femi
  • GRADUATE EXAMINATION
    Gulthom, Dwie Irmawaty
    1 Jan 2017
    Examination chair