Hina Bashir

PhD student Division Transcultural Communication
Hina Bashir

Room: Ground Floor Room 0015, Rudolfskai 42, 5020 Salzburg

Phone: +43-662-8044-4188

Mail: Hina.Bashir@plus.ac.at

Hina Bashir is a doctoral candidate and research assistant in the Division of Transcultural Communication at the University of Salzburg, Austria. Her doctoral research focuses on climate risk communication.

She holds an Erasmus Mundus Joint master’s degree in digital communication leadership, specialising in Policy and Innovation. Her international academic journey has taken her to the Paris Lodron University of Salzburg, Vrije Universiteit Brussel and the University of California, Los Angeles (UCLA), where she was a visiting researcher. She also holds a BSc in Media Sciences, specialising in Advertising, from Pakistan.

Before pursuing her doctoral studies, Hina gained over 6 years of professional experience in Media, Communication and Stakeholder Management with international organisations, including WPP GroupM, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) and various nonprofit organisations. Her academic and professional interests lie at the intersection of communication, climate change, and sociocultural diversity.

Research interests:

  • Climate Change and Risk Communication
  • Risk Perception and Sociocultural Resilience
  • Transcultural and Intercultural Communication
  • Cultural Studies
  • Audience and User Studies
  • Media Consumption and Communication Practices
  • Artificial Intelligence and Human–AI Interaction

Networks:

  • ECREA European Communication Research and Education Association (member)
  • IAMCR International Association for Media and Communication Research (member)