Published 15 October 2015 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,

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Published 6 November 2015 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

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Published 8 December 2015 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

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Published 7 April 2016 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

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Published 7 June 2016 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

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Published 9 June 2016 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

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Published 31 May 2016 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

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Published 30 May 2016 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 professi

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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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

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