Presenter
Deepti Bhargava, Lecturer, Public Relations, Auckland University of Technology
Deepti Bhargava is a public relations lecturer at AUT University, teaching across various papers including the student-led PR agency – Outside the Square. In this paper, students work with real-life clients and she and her colleagues guide them to use planning, evaluation and reflection as critical tools of PR success.
She is passionate about the impact good public relations practice can have on organisations and communities and hopes to inspire the same in those she works with.
She is an Accredited Member of PRINZ and is currently project managing the World Public Relations Forum to be hosted in Auckland in 2020. Prior to joining AUT, Deepti worked in corporate communications at Unitec Institute of Technology. Her role included the governance, planning, implementation and monitoring of online communications. In her prior life overseas, she has also worked across advertising and feature writing.
Deepti is currently pursuing a Ph.D. research on the occupational culture of New Zealand’s public relations consultancies.