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Published 20 June 2016 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 stake
Published 16 August 2016 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 Univ
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lu-and-campus-helsingborg-welcome-students-around-world - 2025-05-23
Published 26 September 2016 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 p
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/students-engaged-digital-initiative-extremism - 2025-05-23
Published 27 September 2016 Image Credit: Gustavo Frazao/Shutterstock 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 communicativ
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/15-million-sek-research-strategic-communication-sharing-economy - 2025-05-23
Published 24 August 2016 Photo: Lilian Matton 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
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/master-students-visit-town-hall - 2025-05-23
Published 15 September 2016 Foto: Gunnar Menander 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 ar
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/management-consultant-who-became-head-department - 2025-05-23
Published 2 September 2016 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 exp
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/significance-communication-success - 2025-05-23
Published 24 October 2016 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, begi
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lund-universitys-350th-jubilee-scholarship - 2025-05-23
Published 2 November 2016 From left; Ivanna Read, Tatiana Proskurina 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 schol
Published 15 November 2016 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 diplomac
Published 25 November 2016 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 bank
Published 20 December 2016 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 ar
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/gullers-grupp-award-2018 - 2025-05-23
Published 19 December 2016 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 n
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-celebrating-350-years - 2025-05-23
Published 1 February 2017 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 c
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/interview-james-pamment-strategic-communication-and-public-diplomacy - 2025-05-23
Published 2 February 2017 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 an
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/what-are-communicative-organizations - 2025-05-23
Published 2 March 2017 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
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/phd-student-hui-zhao-recipient-top-four-student-papers-ica-conference-2017 - 2025-05-23
Published 21 March 2017 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 Strategi
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/how-lobbyists-want-befriend-politicians-behind-scenes-eu - 2025-05-23
Published 21 March 2017 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 relati
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/campus-helsingborg-invests-public-diplomacy - 2025-05-23
Published 4 May 2017 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
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/nils-gustafson-online-hate-speech-india-and-sweden - 2025-05-23
Published 5 May 2017 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
https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/hannah-stanton-never-compromise-things-you-know-you-are-good - 2025-05-23
