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Cecilia Cassinger at the Department of strategic communication and Mia Larsson at the Department of service management and service studies, receive 1,5 million SEK from BFUF (the R&D fund of the Swedish tourism and hospitality industry) for the research project “Digitalisation and visualisation of guide services – a communicative perspective”. Digital and visual communication is central to the sha

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/15-million-sek-research-strategic-communication-sharing-economy - 2025-11-03

The master students that will start their studies this term have a two week welcoming program where they get to know the swedish culture and quirks. This Monday they started with a tour of the city by foot and walked from Campus Helsingborg to the Town Hall of Helsingborg. They were then welcomed by city officials that presented the region and together they all had a typical swedish "fika". The ma

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/master-students-visit-town-hall - 2025-11-03

A modern version of collegial leadership! That is the objective for Charlotte Simonsson – a management consultant who returned to the University and became a manager herself. Here, she finds a forum for continuous discussion about leadership is lacking. “We are so good at analysing and examining everything else – but we barely talk about what we are like as leaders ourselves”, she says. Many thing

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/management-consultant-who-became-head-department - 2025-11-03

Researchers at the Department of Strategic Communication investigate the significance of communication for things like branding, crises, change and opinion-forming. In cooperation with the City of Helsingborg and the Swedish Association of Communication Professionals, Campus Helsingborg is running the project “The Communicative Organisation”. Its first partial report explains the concept of the co

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/significance-communication-success - 2025-11-03

Lund University is celebrating 350 years of education and research with €350,000 in scholarships! Everyone who applies for a Master’s programme can enter to win a scholarship by showing that you share Lund University's vision to understand, explain and improve the world and the human condition. The scholarship can be applied to over 100 different Master’s programmes, beginning in autumn 2017, in a

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lund-universitys-350th-jubilee-scholarship - 2025-11-03

On the 16 and 17 of September 2016 Ivanna Read and Tatiana Proskurina, Master students at the International Master programme in Strategic Communication (year 1) had the opportunity to attend the welcome event for the Swedish Institute (SI) Scholars. The Ceremony was held in Stockholm City Conference Center, where around 400 scholars from more than 70 countries, studying at Universities all over Sw

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/two-master-students-department-strategic-communication-are-awarded-swedish-institute-scholarship - 2025-11-03

During two days in October, the Department of Strategic Communication and its senior Lecturer James Pamment hosted the conference Managing Societal Threats in the Digital Age: The Case of Propaganda and Violent Extremism, together with the key note speaker Corneliu Bjola from Oxford University. The aim was to bring top scholars together from the fields of public diplomacy, security, and countering

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/department-brings-top-scholars-together-fields-public-diplomacy-security-and-countering-violent - 2025-11-03

Today, Friday November 25, Stirling University is hosting their big graduation day for Social Sciences students. At the ceremony are many of the Department’s Master students, graduating from the joint Master programme in Strategic Public Relations jointly delivered by Stirling University, Scotland and Lund Uiversity, during spring 2016. Wegeners thesis Understanding banks’ CSR engagement in times

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/christoph-wegener-years-recipient-commendation-best-master-thesis-strategic-public-relations - 2025-11-03

The Gulllers Grupp Award is annually granted to a Master´s thesis that covers the subject of societal actors' communication. The thesis should bring new knowledge to the area of communication that is pertinent to social issues. The definition of ”societal actor” is broad, encompassing both private and public communicators. Both individually and jointly authored theses are welcome to apply. The win

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/gullers-grupp-award-2018 - 2025-11-03

Lund University is celebrating its 350th anniversary! The jubilee is taking place from 19 December 2016 until 28 January 2018, the dates marking the University’s foundation and its subsequent inauguration. For almost 350 years, the University has been a powerful force within education, research and community building, which has left its mark on Lund, the region and the nation. Our 350th anniversar

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-celebrating-350-years - 2025-11-03

Meet James Pamment, a Senior Lecturer in Strategic Communication at the Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University, Sweden. His work addresses issues related to strategic communication, diplomacy, and international development. Learn about: * Why strategic communication for places is important; * The impacts of digital disruptions within cities, regions, and countries; * The current st

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/interview-james-pamment-strategic-communication-and-public-diplomacy - 2025-11-03

Mats Heide is currently the project leader for the large research project Communicative Organization (2014–2017), which he runs together with Jesper Falkheimer, Howard Nothhaft, Sara von Platen, and Charlotte Simonsson, all active researchers at the Department of Strategic Communication. Rickard Andersson, Phd student is also involved and writes his dissertation within and around the project. The 

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-are-communicative-organizations - 2025-11-03

Hui Zhao, Phd student at the Department has had one of her papers recognized among the top student papers of the 2017 ICA (International Communication Association) conference, PR Division. As a recipient of the top four student paper, Ms Zhao will also receive a scholarship from the ICA PR Division in the amount of $500. The paper Contextual Factors and Crisis Attribution in Social Media Crisis: R

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/phd-student-hui-zhao-recipient-top-four-student-papers-ica-conference-2017 - 2025-11-03

Lobbyists are actively trying to come up with creative ways to influence politicians. Ideally, they want to be seen as friends. Adopted legislation to regulate lobbying within the EU does not cover the way it works in practice. Camilla Nothhaft has shown this in a thesis presented at Örebro University. She now works as a researcher and lecturer at the Department of Strategic Communication in Helsi

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/how-lobbyists-want-befriend-politicians-behind-scenes-eu - 2025-11-03

Researcher in strategic communication James Pamment has recently received a STINT grant of SEK 500 000 for a project in the field of communication and diplomacy. Public diplomacy as a research field is essentially about creating the necessary conditions for the realisation of a country’s financial, political and cultural objectives through strategic communication and relationship-building activiti

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/campus-helsingborg-invests-public-diplomacy - 2025-11-03

This week is the Digital Society Science Week at Lund University. It's a part of the 350 year jubilee and presents a plethora of great research and other stuff. During the two-day Digital Society Symposium that kicked off the week, with keynote speakers such as Lawrence Lessig and José Van Dijck. I had the pleasure to introduce an ongoing project to compare online hate speech in India and Sweden t

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/nils-gustafson-online-hate-speech-india-and-sweden - 2025-11-03

On Saturday, a TEDx conference will be held in Malmö. One of the speakers is Hannah Stanton, a former student at the Department of Strategic Communication, who has the opportunity, in her professional life, to combine what she learned during her studies with experiences from her voluntary work. Here is a very recent interview with Hannah, filled with inspiration and advice to current and future st

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/hannah-stanton-never-compromise-things-you-know-you-are-good - 2025-11-03

With in-class teaching over and only papers to write, ISK’s international Master Class in Strategic Communication hit Helsingborg town to celebrate the successful conclusion of their notorious course in crisis communication. With in-class teaching over and only papers to write, ISK’s international Master Class in Strategic Communication hit Helsingborg town to celebrate the successful conclusion o

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/stratcom-masters-hit-helsingborg-town-end-term-party - 2025-11-03

The award is annually granted to the author (authors) of a Master´s thesis written at the Department of Strategic Communication of Lund University. Send your thesis and a copy of your official grade at the latest 16th of June 2017. The thesis should hold a high academic quality and bring new knowledge to the area of communication that is pertinent to social issues. The definition of ”societal issu

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/apply-gullers-grupp-award - 2025-11-03

Last Monday our graduating Master students, from two different programmes, were celebrated together with master students from the entire Faculty of Social Science, at a ceremony in Lund. Watch the nice pictures, taken by Zaki Habibi, below. Photos: Zaki Habibi

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/pictures-masters-ceremony-lund-june-5th - 2025-11-03