Patricia Gettings
Associate Professor, Undergraduate Director
Department of Communication
Education
PhD, Brian Lamb School of Communication, Purdue University
Research
Research Interests
My research explores how individuals’ personal relationships and organizational lives influence one another, and how individuals communicatively negotiate these overlapping spaces in ways that enhance or challenge individual, relational, and/or organizational outcomes.
Broadly, my research interests include:
- Careers and retirement
- Gender
- Mixed methods
- Processes of identity management
- Work-life interface