Abstract

Publishing critical health communication scholarship comes with challenges. In reflecting on my own experiences, I discuss the ways in which health communication is designed to favor post-positivistic research. Through looking at reviewer comments and general academic conversations, I discuss the barriers critical health communication scholars face. In the end, I provide suggestions for ways that critical health communication scholars can move forward as leaders in our subfield.

Highlights

  • Publishing critical health communication scholarship comes with challenges

  • In my experience and through conversations with other related scholars, it appears that critical health communication scholars undergo intense scrutiny in their work

  • As a queer critical health researcher, I find myself battling between representing my identity and pursuing health communication scholarship

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Summary

Nicole Hudak*

Departments of Communication & Philosophy and Public Health, Keene State College, Keene, NH, United States. In reflecting on my own experiences, I discuss the ways in which health communication is designed to favor post-positivistic research. Through looking at reviewer comments and general academic conversations, I discuss the barriers critical health communication scholars face. It was my scholarship that was being rejected and my identity as a queer person. In my experience and through conversations with other related scholars, it appears that critical health communication scholars undergo intense scrutiny in their work. As a queer critical health researcher, I find myself battling between representing my identity and pursuing health communication scholarship. I explore my experiences of attempting to establish myself as a critical health researcher through both publications and through finding a place within the academy

DEFINING CRITICAL HEALTH RESEARCH
THE PROBLEM WITH PUBLISHING
DISCLAIMING EXPERTISE
Findings
WHERE DO WE GO FROM HERE?

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