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Assistant Professor Hui Zhao and her co-author Chiara Valentini have received the best paper award for their research on international crisis communication and multinational corporations’ political engagement from the European Public Relations Education and Research Association 2021 Congress. Hui Zhao interests are in researching organizational communication in a rapidly evolving media landscape a

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/assistant-professor-hui-zhao-receives-best-paper-award-euprera-2021 - 2025-11-07

Between December 23 and January 9, the Department of Strategic Communication will be closed because of Christmas and New Year holidays. If you have any urgent matter, please email info [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se. We read emails on a weekly basis.

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/closed-christmas-department-strategic-communication - 2025-11-07

The term affective polarization refers to the extent to which citizens feel more negatively toward other political parties than toward their own. Researchers do not know much about the link between news media coverage and affective polarization. One way to better understand affective polarization is to measure the effects of it, for example by setting up scientific experiments. Unlike just a few y

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/conference-about-affective-polarization-hosted-department-and-nordic-map-network - 2025-11-07

Nadia Kaneva, associate professor in Media and Strategic communication at Denver University (USA), will, among other things, discuss the marketing of national and gender-related identities. Nadia Kaneva visits the public diplomacy research group and the Department of Strategic Communication in May 2022. The visit is part of an ongoing collaboration between Lund University and the University of Den

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/open-seminar-public-diplomacy-and-gender - 2025-11-07

We wish new students welcome to the Department this autumn. Our programmes start in the beginning of the semester with a mandatory introduction. Our new master students will be here for pre-registration Våra masterstudenter välkomnas redan den 22 augusti för pre-registration. Our two bachelor's programmes and our master programme start in the autumn semester. We are expecting 90 students on the ba

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/autumn-semester-starts-august-29th - 2025-11-07

The conference brings together scholars, practitioners and students of place branding and the related fields of nation branding, public diplomacy, city branding, country branding, destination branding. The theme of the 2023 IPBA conference is Place branding in times of crisis and uncertainty. We invite submissions that examine place branding discourse and practice against the momentous challenges

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/department-strategic-communication-hosting-7th-annual-conference-international-place-branding - 2025-11-07

This preconference is organized by researchers at the department participating in an ongoing NOS-HS network on strategic communication. It explores the complex communicative processes by which organizations constitute strategies to “do the right thing” in response to global crises. Over the past few years, we have witnessed a variety of global crises ranging from the Covid-19 pandemic and the war

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/researchers-organize-2023-international-communication-association-ica-preconference-organizing-face - 2025-11-07

In December the students on the Master's programme in strategic communication organized their traditional Christmas potluck at Campus Helsingborg. The party was held on the top floor C-7, which was decorated for the occasion by the specially appointed party committee. The Christmas tree was dressed, the Christmas cloths unrolled, and the light garlands hung up. As darkness began to fall over Helsi

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/christmas-feeling-masters-programme - 2025-11-07

Welcome to join us for a unique research seminar on place branding with researcher and Associate Professor Massimo Giovarnardi, University of Bologna, Italy. Dr Giovarnardi will give a research talk and perform songs from his new combined book and music album “Destinations: Songs for place and tourism management”.  Time: 15 February, 14-16 (sharp!) Place: Mindpark Welcome!  

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/research-seminar-songs-place-and-tourism-management - 2025-11-07

This semester, ISK welcomes 46 new master's students from 18 different countries to Campus Helsingborg. The students, who come from Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, among other countries, start their two-year education on the international Master's programme in Strategic Communication this week. This edition of the programme had 574 applicants from al

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/masters-programme-strategic-communication-attracts-students-all-over-world-campus-helsingborg - 2025-11-07

Hui Zhao and Chiara Valentini are the recipients of the Karen Miller Russell Award for the Most Downloaded Article published in the Journal of Public Relations Research.  They received the award on 7th August from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) the 106th Annual Conference. The awarded paper is Navigating Turbulent Political Waters: From Corporate Politic

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/reward-most-downloaded-article - 2025-11-07

The research project is funded with 2.2 million SEK from the R&D Fund of the Swedish Tourism & Hospitality Industry. The project aims to increase knowledge about how a destination's various actors, such as hotels, retail, and different associations can offer an inclusive stay for tourists with dogs. The project investigates both the needs of dog owners and how the actors at the destination can sup

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/dog-tourism-focus-quality-life-and-destination-resilience - 2025-11-07

The research project has been rewarded SEK 1.8 million from the R&D fund of the Swedish Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The aim of the research project is to create new knowledge about the role of the tourism industry in vulnerable areas with a particular focus on socially sustainable place attractiveness. At first glance, it seems excellent to create attractive tourist destinations in vulnerabl

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/attractiveness-marginalized-places-conditions-tourism-vulnerable-areas - 2025-11-07

From climate change disasters to the war in Ukraine and the shaky global economy, there is a growing and palpable sense of living in a time of perpetual crisis and uncertainty. How do crises and uncertain times affect place branding discourse and practice and what are the implications for research? In October, researchers and practitioners gather at a unique world-leading conference to discuss tod

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/place-branding-crisis-and-uncertain-times - 2025-11-07

A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions across Sweden from varied disciplines such as international relations, political science, sociology, strategic communication and law. The conference is planned to become

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/psychological-defence-research-conference - 2025-11-07

Here's what you should know and what investors look for. Most startup companies need investment at some point in their journey, but a lot of companies struggle to find it. Investors come in many shapes and at different times of the journey, from perhaps early investors like family and friends to business angels and later-stage venture capital. It is not one-size-fits-all, so make sure to consider

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/getting-investment-startup - 2025-11-07

Ideation is a creative process for generating ideas, lots of ideas. It can help you to think outside-the-box, and is an essential part of the design process. First of all, you need to come up with a problem or challenge that you want to solve. Look around - what problems do you or people in your surroundings encounter? When you've located this and narrowed the problem down, you need some technique

https://www.innovation.lu.se/en/article/ideation-increase-innovation-potential - 2025-11-07

The new HPC resource at LUNARC, COSMOS, will be installed during the fall. Are you curious about what new possibilities this resource offers you as a researcher? Would you like to know how existing users take advantage of LUNARC resources? Do you have questions regarding the use of LUNARC services? Do you need help improving your scientific workflows? If you answer yes to any of these questions, p

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/cosmos-dreams-presentation-cosmos-and-new-possibilities-12th-october-1330-1530 - 2025-11-07

One of the national services offered by NBIS/SciLifeLab is the Bioinformatics Peer review Support track (a.k.a. WABI), providing competences in large-scale data analysis for genomics, transcriptomics, proteomics, metabolomics, Cryo-EM/ET and other technologies. This support has been enabled by funding from the Knut and Alice Wallenberg Foundation, and is a part of the SciLifeLab & Wallenberg Natio

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/apply-now-oct-6-bioinformatics-peer-review-support-track-now-including-cryo-emet - 2025-11-07

  Introducing LU-Fold workshops! First workshop 28th November 2023: “AlphaFold2 made easy” An introduction to modeling structures of proteins and small complexes, interpreting and visualising the results Location: E12034, Forum Medicum Cost: Free! Registration is required. Strictly limited to 30 places, allocated on a first come, first served basis, with priority for Lund University affiliated par

https://www.lubi.lu.se/article/registration-open-first-lu-fold-workshop - 2025-11-07