Each year, companies, organizations and authorities spend almost 40 billion Swedish kronor on communication. They assume that communication is decisive for effectiveness, for establishing and retaining the confidence of interested parties and for the development and image of organizations. But how well does this accord with reality? ”There is relatively little research in this area,” says Mats Hei

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-begins-major-project-strategic-communication-campus-helsingborg - 2025-08-21

The Campus Helsingborg App has not been functional after the last version of iOS (iPhone). It does however work on older versions of iOS and on Android phones. Campus Helsingborg has as a temporary solution developed a web based timetable that can be used on all versions and all phones.To easy use the web based solution the timetable will be added to your home screen. You create a short cut by:Ope

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/campus-helsingborg-app - 2025-08-21

On 24 February, discussions on the theme of location branding in the public sector were held at Campus Helsingborg. Why should we brand cities? What do research and practice tell us about methods and effects? With these questions, Jesper Falkheimer, Professor of Strategic Communication and dean of Campus Helsingborg kicked off a two-hour panel debate between researchers at Lund University and loca

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/great-interest-discussion-city-brand - 2025-08-21

Susanna Magnusson, researcher in strategic communication at Lund University, Campus Helsingborg, investigated Räddningstjänsten Syd’s communication initiatives to increase its credibility. A few years ago, you could read in the newspaper about how youths threw stones at the emergency services when they intervened in Rosengård in Malmö. The emergency crews were at a loss. What was actually going on

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/new-study-communication-skills-more-important-cultural-skills - 2025-08-21

The Department of Strategic Communication has the opportunity to host the fourth international conference on crisis communication, CRISIS4, which will begin on 7 October 2015. The event is hosted by Lund University and the Department of Strategic Communication together with the International Research Group on Crisis Communication (IRGoCC).The deadline for abstracts is 15 April 2015. For more infor

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/crisis4-conference-crisis-communication-7-10-october-2015 - 2025-08-21

A new alumni survey shows that almost 9 out of 10 students who studied strategic communication at Lund University have a job six months after graduating. Moreover, one third already have a job offer before they finish their studies. The strategic communication programmes are offered by the Department of Strategic Communication at Campus Helsingborg. The first degree programme started here 7 years

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/favourable-labour-market-strategic-communication-graduates - 2025-08-21

During this year’s graduation ceremonies, both Bachelor’s students at Helsingborg’s Arena and the department’s Master’s students at the University Auditorium in Lund were awarded scholarships and honourable mentions for best degree projects. The degree projects focus on different aspects of strategic communication within the department programmes.Scholarship holders 2015 Marknadsföreningen in Hels

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/seven-degree-projects-receive-special-recognition-during-years-graduation-ceremonies - 2025-08-21

A decision to reopen Lund University was taken in the afternoon of Monday 12 October following the closure that has been in force since Sunday night. Activities are expected to be running as usual from Tuesday morning.The decision is based on new information from the Region Syd police. Investigations have revealed that the threat directed at Lund University posted on the Jodel app was not a unique

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/lund-university-reopens-tuesday - 2025-08-21

For the 4th consecutive year, EUPRERA, The European Public Relations Education and Research Association, a body of academic institutions, researchers and senior professionals in the field of strategic communication with 500 members from 40 countries, has awarded professors, next-generation academics and graduates from Switzerland, Sweden, Austria, Germany and Romania for their excellent research i

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/best-paper-award-isk-researchers - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21

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 - 2025-08-21