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

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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

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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

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Welcome to a public lecture at Campus Helsingborg. A public lecture in Campus Helsingborg’s seriesThe challenge of machine-generated strategic communicationSocial media bots: automated marketing or political warfare?Mr. Matthew ArmstrongFormer Governor, Broadcasting Board of Governors & Executive Director, U.S. Advisory Commission on Public DiplomacyWhen? October 18th from 16-18Where? Campus Helsi

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A special and very interesting issue of The Journal of Communication Management has recently been released, entitled "The European refugee crisis: organizational responses and communication strategies". James Pamment of the Department of Strategic Communication is one of the editors of the issue together with Alina Dolea and Diana Ingenhoff. This issue Includes the article The response of Swedish

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Looking to further your education and career options? Attend the Graduate Fair to learn more about our range of over 100 Master’s degree programmes offered at Lund University! Meet programme coordinators, find out how to apply and what makes a successful application.The fair happens at LUX in Lund, Thursday - Nov, 30th, from 16-19.Read more!Facebook event!

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A recent survey distributed to graduates of our MSc programme in Strategic Communication shows that 95% are employed within a year. Our alumni work as communicators, strategic communicators, managers, consultants or specialists with a variety of tasks such as digital media management, internal communication, content and copywriting, media relations, marketing and analysis of trends, business envir

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/95-our-msc-strategic-communication-graduates-are-employed-within-year - 2025-08-25

The CEO and creative director at Malmö based communication agency South Communication spent a day with students on ISK’s international master program discussing global branding, strategy, and the bottom line. Participants in the course strategic brand communication were happy after finishing the presentations of their case solutions. Photo: Cecilia Cassinger

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/south-communication-joins-isk-day - 2025-08-25

Jesper Falkheimer and Mats Heide, from the Department of Strategic Communication, recently released the book "Strategic Communication - an introduction" which can be found in most book stores. Read more below. Strategic communication comprises different forms of goal-oriented communication inside and between organizations, their stakeholders and the society. Strategic communication is an emerging

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BOTS, ALGORITHMS, JUNK NEWS: DATA SCIENCE AND THE EVIDENCE ON FOREIGN INFLUENCE-CAMPAIGNS LISA-MARIA NEUDERT, OXFORD UNIVERSITY INTERNET INSTITUTE FRIDAY, MAR 02, 15.15-17.00 / CAMPUS HELSINGBORG, ROOM E210 Political actors around the globe use algorithms and automation to sway elections, sow confusion, and target voters with propaganda messages. Micro-targeted advertising, political bots, and man

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/target-election-invitation-public-lecture-campus-helsingborg - 2025-08-25

Now there are (at least) three positions as post doc to apply for att he Faculty of Social Sciences at Lund University The duration of the position is two years. The position involves individual research (80%) and teaching at all levels (20%).Read more about the positions, required qualifications, what your application should contain and apply here.The last date to apply is April, 23rd. 

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The book "Strategic Communication: An introduction" by Jesper Falkheimer and Mats Heide, both researchers at the Department of Strategic Communication, was released last winter. Last week, the website PR Place wrote a praising review on the book, which of course is great news for the Department. The review tells us, among other things: "It is an admirable text that brings together theories from a

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Charlotte Simonsson och Mats Heide, both researches at the Department of Strategic Communication, recently got their article "How focusing positively on errors can help organizations become more communicative: An alternative approach to crisis communication" published in the magazine Journal of Communication Management. The purpose of the paper is to gain new knowledge of how organizational errors

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/charlotte-simonsson-and-mats-heide-published-journal-communication-management - 2025-08-25

Stella Zimpfer At the graduation ceremony for all the master students at the Faculty of Social Science earlier in June, Stella Zimpfer received the Sparbankstiftelsen award for best master thesis in strategic communication, a thesis focusing on startup branding in the Öresund region. I asked Stella a few questions about her work. Stella is from Germany and has since before a bachelor’s degree in E

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Håkan Bengtsson (CEO) and Anna Haraldsson (consultant) at Edmund Communication participated in the master course Brand Communication. They did a case exercise with the students and talked about the integration of branding in human resource management and how branding can support adoption communication within organisations. We were also joined by two adorable future brand experts who listened atten

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Anne Buchmann, lecturer from Newcastle University - Australia, recently visited the department of Strategic Communication. Anne Buchmann, lecturer from Newcastle University in Australia, recently visited the department to give a much appreciated lecture for the master students that dealt with branding, popular culture and New Zealand. It was also an opportunity for the editors (from left in the ph

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From the left; Maria Månsson (ISK) Jörgen Eksell (ISK) Cecilia Cassinger (ISK) Michael Johansson (ISM) Lena Eskilsson (ISM) Jan Henrik Nilsson (ISM) A new research project at the Department of Strategic Communication will examine the problems tourism causes for cities and create counteractive strategies. The project, which will run for four years, is funded by a SEK 19.2 million grant from Formas.

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To strengthen the Department’s International cooperation and exchange research experiences, Cecilia Cassinger, Jörgen Eksell and Maria Månsson from the Department of Strategic Communication visited Hong Kong Baptist University (HKBU) this week. They met with the international office, exchange students and researchers at the School of Communication. They also got a grand tour of the green campuses

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2018 has been a great year for incoming research funds to the Department! We can proudly present a various number of different projects within different fields of Strategic Communication! Only during the last week we had several grants given to various researchers at the Department; ranging from funds for further research within “Public Diplomacy”, Marianne and Marcus Wallenberg Foundation (James

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/more-research-funds-keep-coming - 2025-08-25

Growing concerns over the threat posed by deceptive and false information have prompted the UK government to focus efforts on countering disinformation. Since 2018 a research team at ISK have supported the UK Government Communication Service (GCS) in this regard by developing a counter-disinformation toolkit. The RESIST Disinformation Toolkit provides a step-by-step approach to countering disinfor

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/resist-toolkit-isk-supports-uk-government-countering-disinformation - 2025-08-25