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During the past couple of months, the Department has had the pleasure of welcoming Lindsey Blumell as a visiting research fellow. Ms. Blumell is doing her doctorate (PhD) at Texas Tech University, USA; her research focuses on the investigation of primarily NGO (Non Governmental Organisation) journalism in a digital age, international communication within the public sphere, and human rights. In res

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lindsey-blumell-visiting-research-fellow-field-social-media-and-human-rights - 2025-12-17

Jesper Falkheimer and Mats Heide, professors at the Department of Strategic Communication, have landed an international publishing agreement with Routledge for the popular book, Strategisk kommunikation – en introduktion. The agreement means that the book will be translated into English in 2016. The book will also be expanded and updated, and have a more international angle that will link to globa

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/professors-land-publishing-deal-routledge - 2025-12-17

Several of the world’s leading researchers in crisis communication participated in an international conference, Crisis4, held 7–10 October at Campus Helsingborg. The host for the conference on this occasion was the Department of Strategic Communication. The conference opened at the City Hall in Helsingborg, where the Mayor, Mats Sander welcomed 80 researchers from Europe, USA, Australia and China.

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/world-leading-researchers-gathered-campus - 2025-12-17

We are all reminded of society’s vulnerability when the train comes to a halt in a snowstorm, or when there is a power cut due to a technical problem. CenCIP (the Centre for Critical Infrastructure Protection), a newly established research centre at Lund University, is financed by the Swedish Civil Contingencies Agency (MSB). The research will enhance our knowledge about how to protect important s

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/isk-partner-cencip-new-research-centre-focusing-infrastructure-protection - 2025-12-17

It is with some regret that the Division of Communication, Media and Culture, University of Stirling and the Department of Strategic Communication, Lund University, announce that the postgraduate double-degree in Strategic Public Relations is to be discontinued and there will be no future intakes to this programme. Last intake was autumn 2015 and the students will be the last run of this programme

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/master-programme-strategic-public-relations-discontinued - 2025-12-17

On Wednesday April 6, Mindpark invited students from the Department of Strategic Communication to take part of short presentations from small businesses around Skåne and hear their stories about what type of communication are startups' craving. The Startup Community in Skåne is growing and becoming bigger and bigger as we speak. Loads of the companies that are being launched from this area often h

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-about-communication - 2025-12-17

SASNET - Swedish South Asian Studies Network has been rewarded 100 000 SEK from the Crafoord Foundation with which to expand the Sweden–South Asia Media Project that began in 2015. The grant will be used to arrange conferences and workshops dealing with online harassment in India and Sweden. Professor Jesper Falkheimer from the Department of Strategic Communication is part of the team, directing t

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/jesper-falkheimer-collaborative-project-through-sasnet - 2025-12-17

On Wednesday June 8, our master students, together with all graduate Master students at the Faculty of Social Sciences, had their Graduation Ceremony in the old University building in Lund. This year the audience had the pleasure of listening to some great speeches. The commencement speech by Professor Ian Manners from University of Copenhagen gave a reflecting speech on life and work, but most im

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/congratulations-our-master-students - 2025-12-17

The Department of Strategic Communication was visited last week by various lecturers who represent components of some of the department’s courses. Last Tuesday, our Bachelor’s students received a lecture by Susanna Laurin, CEO of the company Funka, providing information on how we can create a more humane Internet. On the Wednesday our Master’s students had the opportunity to meet Thomas Öberg and

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-communication-more-humane-internet-trip-bob-hund - 2025-12-17

Professor of Strategic Communication Jesper Falkheimer, together with his colleagues, has received the Research Stream Award for Best Paper at the conference World Public Relations Forum (WPRF) that is currently being held in Canada. Over the weekend, Jesper Falkheimer presented the winning article “Is strategic communication too important to be left to communication professionals?” at the confere

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/researchers-bring-home-award-world-public-relations-forum - 2025-12-17

On June 17, Jacob Stenberg obtained his doctoral degree in Media and Communication Studies with his thesis entitled “The Communicative State: Political Public Relations and the Rise of the Innovation Hype in Sweden”. The thesis poses the question of what happens when a political hype occurs, that is, when a political issue suddenly becomes highly topical, and political stakeholders begin to mobili

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/new-phd-thesis-when-policy-issues-are-prioritised-based-their-communicative-potential - 2025-12-17

Tuesday 16 August 2016 is "Arrival Day" for over 2,000 new international students at Lund University. Approximately 150 of the students study at Campus Helsingborg and 40 of them are specially welcome to our new International Master's Programme in Strategic Communication. Arrival Day is a dedicated day to welcome international students to their new environment at Lund University. Students are gree

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lu-and-campus-helsingborg-welcome-students-around-world - 2025-12-17

Students at the Department of Strategic Communication are currently involved in developing a digital campaign to counter extremism. The campaign is part of the global initiative P2P: Challenging Extremism launched by the US State Department.- This is a great opportunity for us to apply our theoretical skills to a real problem, says the project leader of the group. The project's aim is to fight ali

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/students-engaged-digital-initiative-extremism - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17

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 - 2025-12-17