MA in Political Communication at Dublin City University

This programme examines the rapidly changing relationship between the media, politics and the public, and considers how their overlapping relations influence democracy and the distribution of power.

Programme

• To provide students with a conceptual framework to understand the evolution, practice and terminology of political communication;
• To examine the relationship between the media, politics and the public;
• To provide an understanding of how political and public communication informs and sustains democracy and the distribution of power in both national and international contexts;
• To acquire the ability to undertake and communicate original research

Careers

Positions held by our graduates include: 

• Analyst - LinkedIn; Director of Advocacy - Focus Ireland; 
• External Communications - Bank of Ireland; 
• Director of News - Storyful; Director - Fleishman-Hillard; 
• Senior Public Affairs Manager -Vodafone; 
• Media Manager -Connaught Rugby;
• Head of Group Communications - Irish Life Account Director - Murray Consultants;
• Account Director - Insight PR;
• Policy Officer - Department of Justice;
• Financial Education Manager - Competition Authority;
• Account Director - Wilson Hartnell PR;
• Managing Director - Montague PR;
• Policy Director - IBEC; Special Adviser - Government Minister;
• Head of Media - Sinn Fein; Chef de Cabinet - Fianna Fail;
• Press Officer - Labour Party; Head of Media - Fine Gael;
• Parliamentary Assistants with various TDs and Senators;
• Director of Communications - Garda Síochána;
• Press Officer - Department of Finance;
• Press Officer - Department of the Taoiseach;
• Head of Communications - University of Limerick;
• Broadcast Manager - Oireachtas TV;
• Head of Press - Law Society;