Published 11 October 2021 Assistant Professor Hui Zhao and her co-author Chiara Valentini have received the best paper award for their research on international crisis communication and multinational corporations’ political engagement from the European Public Relations Education and Research Association 2021 Congress. Hui Zhao interests are in researching organizational communication in a rapidly

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/assistant-professor-hui-zhao-receives-best-paper-award-euprera-2021 - 2025-05-17

Published 21 December 2021 Between December 23 and January 9, the Department of Strategic Communication will be closed because of Christmas and New Year holidays. If you have any urgent matter, please email info [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se. We read emails on a weekly basis.

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/closed-christmas-department-strategic-communication - 2025-05-17

Published 8 February 2022 The term affective polarization refers to the extent to which citizens feel more negatively toward other political parties than toward their own. Researchers do not know much about the link between news media coverage and affective polarization. One way to better understand affective polarization is to measure the effects of it, for example by setting up scientific experi

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/conference-about-affective-polarization-hosted-department-and-nordic-map-network - 2025-05-17

Published 11 April 2022 Nadia Kaneva, associate professor in Media and Strategic communication at Denver University (USA), will, among other things, discuss the marketing of national and gender-related identities. Nadia Kaneva visits the public diplomacy research group and the Department of Strategic Communication in May 2022. The visit is part of an ongoing collaboration between Lund University a

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/open-seminar-public-diplomacy-and-gender - 2025-05-17

By info [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se (Cecilia Nygren) - published 11 August 2022 We wish new students welcome to the Department this autumn. Our programmes start in the beginning of the semester with a mandatory introduction. Our new master students will be here for pre-registration Våra masterstudenter välkomnas redan den 22 augusti för pre-registration. Our two bachelor's programmes and our master

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/autumn-semester-starts-august-29th - 2025-05-17

By hannah [dot] ekroth [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se (Hannah Ekroth) - published 23 November 2022 The conference brings together scholars, practitioners and students of place branding and the related fields of nation branding, public diplomacy, city branding, country branding, destination branding. The theme of the 2023 IPBA conference is Place branding in times of crisis and uncertainty. We invite s

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/department-strategic-communication-hosting-7th-annual-conference-international-place-branding - 2025-05-17

Published 24 November 2022 Photo by Annie Spratt on Unsplash This preconference is organized by researchers at the department participating in an ongoing NOS-HS network on strategic communication. It explores the complex communicative processes by which organizations constitute strategies to “do the right thing” in response to global crises. Over the past few years, we have witnessed a variety of

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/researchers-organize-2023-international-communication-association-ica-preconference-organizing-face - 2025-05-17

Published 20 December 2022 Photo: Singhararith Chea In December the students on the Master's programme in strategic communication organized their traditional Christmas potluck at Campus Helsingborg. The party was held on the top floor C-7, which was decorated for the occasion by the specially appointed party committee. The Christmas tree was dressed, the Christmas cloths unrolled, and the light ga

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/christmas-feeling-masters-programme - 2025-05-17

Published 11 January 2023 Welcome to join us for a unique research seminar on place branding with researcher and Associate Professor Massimo Giovarnardi, University of Bologna, Italy. Dr Giovarnardi will give a research talk and perform songs from his new combined book and music album “Destinations: Songs for place and tourism management”.  Time: 15 February, 14-16 (sharp!) Place: Mindpark Welcome

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/research-seminar-songs-place-and-tourism-management - 2025-05-17

By frida [dot] hessel [at] isk [dot] lu [dot] se (Frida Hessel) - published 29 August 2023 This semester, ISK welcomes 46 new master's students from 18 different countries to Campus Helsingborg. The students, who come from Sweden, Iceland, Germany, Spain, Italy, China, Indonesia, Zimbabwe and Nigeria, among other countries, start their two-year education on the international Master's programme in

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/masters-programme-strategic-communication-attracts-students-all-over-world-campus-helsingborg - 2025-05-17

Published 4 September 2023 Hui Zhao and Chiara Valentini are the recipients of the Karen Miller Russell Award for the Most Downloaded Article published in the Journal of Public Relations Research.  They received the award on 7th August from the Association for Education in Journalism and Mass Communication (AEJMC) the 106th Annual Conference. The awarded paper is Navigating Turbulent Political Wat

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/reward-most-downloaded-article - 2025-05-17

Published 27 September 2023 The research project is funded with 2.2 million SEK from the R&D Fund of the Swedish Tourism & Hospitality Industry. The project aims to increase knowledge about how a destination's various actors, such as hotels, retail, and different associations can offer an inclusive stay for tourists with dogs. The project investigates both the needs of dog owners and how the actor

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/dog-tourism-focus-quality-life-and-destination-resilience - 2025-05-17

Published 4 October 2023 The research project has been rewarded SEK 1.8 million from the R&D fund of the Swedish Tourism and Hospitality Industry. The aim of the research project is to create new knowledge about the role of the tourism industry in vulnerable areas with a particular focus on socially sustainable place attractiveness. At first glance, it seems excellent to create attractive tourist

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/attractiveness-marginalized-places-conditions-tourism-vulnerable-areas - 2025-05-17

Published 10 October 2023 From climate change disasters to the war in Ukraine and the shaky global economy, there is a growing and palpable sense of living in a time of perpetual crisis and uncertainty. How do crises and uncertain times affect place branding discourse and practice and what are the implications for research? In October, researchers and practitioners gather at a unique world-leading

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/place-branding-crisis-and-uncertain-times - 2025-05-17

Published 18 October 2023 A research conference was held in Lund in October 2023. The conference, organized jointly by the Psychological Defence Research Institute and the Swedish Psychological Defence Agency, gathered researchers representing institutions across Sweden from varied disciplines such as international relations, political science, sociology, strategic communication and law. The confe

https://www.isk.lu.se/en/article/psychological-defence-research-conference - 2025-05-17

By ove [dot] torstensson [at] mhm [dot] lu [dot] se (Ove Torstensson) - published 18 September 2018 Cellist Andreas Brantelid is today one of the most sought after soloists from Scandinavia, and has received overwhelming reviews for his thoughtful interpretations, his most personal colored tone, and not least with his engaging personality. In early September he was employed as a Senior Lecturer in

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/andreas-brantelid-new-senior-lecturer-cello - 2025-05-17

Published 19 December 2019 Theophile Hartz Theophile Hartz is principal oboe at Malmö Opera since 2011 and has been principal oboe in Israel Philharmonic during the 2017 – 2018 season. He has studied in France at Conservatoire National Superieur in Lyon and at Hochschule für Musik in Karlsruhe Theophile Hartz is principal oboe at Malmö Opera since 2011 and has been principal oboe in Israel Philhar

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/theophile-hartz-new-teacher-oboe-malmo-academy-music - 2025-05-17

Published 31 March 2020 PORTRAIT. Michael Edgerton is a composer, world citizen and since the summer of 2019, Professor of Artistic Research at the Malmö Academy of Music. How come you decided to apply for a job in Sweden and move here? - In 2002, I began to work with guitarist Stefan Östersjö and then later ensemble Ars Nova, and the Stockholm Sax Quartet. These were good experiences and I was im

https://www.mhm.lu.se/en/article/unusual-sounds-complex-contexts - 2025-05-17

Published 28 February 2020 Obesity represents a tremendous global health problem. Studies over the past decade have suggested that food addiction (FA), that is, physical cravings for certain foods – high in fat/sugar – and addiction-like overeating of these types of food, is a likely contributor to the obesity epidemic. New publication in Acta Neuropsychiatrica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/food-addiction-denmark-fadk-project-combined-survey-and-register-based-study - 2025-05-17

Published 29 February 2020 Genetic factors are important in determining breast density, and heritable factors account for 60% of the variation. Certain single nucleotide polymorphisms (SNPs) are associated with density and risk of breast cancer but the association with prognosis is not clear. New publication in Acta Radiologica

https://www.lupop.lu.se/article/association-single-nucleotide-polymorphisms-snps-breast-density-and-breast-cancer-survival-malmo - 2025-05-17