All news
-
4 Jun 2024
The Psychological Defence Research Institute: "We could be ten times the size we are"
In an ideal world, perhaps the Psychological Defence Research Institute in Helsingborg would not even exist. But the global situation has brought attention, increased research fund...
-
6 Mar 2024
Alicia Fjällhed successfully defends her doctoral thesis
On Friday, February 15, Alicia Fjällhed defended her thesis, "Strategic moral communication: A metatheoretical and methodological response to the normative perspective on strategic...
-
8 Feb 2024
Significant increase of "polarisation" in Swedish newspapers
The frequency of the word "polarisation" in Swedish news media increased by 300% between 2010 and 2021. In the same period, the term's definition evolved, and its contextual meanin...
-
22 Dec 2023
How video games are being used by malign foreign actors and extremists
Video games are easy to exploit, and are being used by actors ranging from IS and Hizbollah for recruitment, to Russia, who use it to spread propaganda during the ongoing invasion ...
-
30 Oct 2023
Studying abroad - experiences and stories
A week at the Royal Melbourne Institute of Technology
-
18 Oct 2023
Psychological Defence Research Conference
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 Agen...
-
10 Oct 2023
Place branding in crisis and uncertain times
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...
-
4 Oct 2023
Attractiveness of marginalized places - Conditions of tourism in vulnerable areas
The research project has been rewarded SEK 1.8 million from the R&D fund of the Swedish Tourism and Hospitality Industry.
-
27 Sep 2023
Dog tourism with a focus on quality of life and destination resilience
The research project is funded with 2.2 million SEK from the R&D Fund of the Swedish Tourism & Hospitality Industry.
-
4 Sep 2023
Reward for the most downloaded article
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.
-
29 Aug 2023
The Master's programme in Strategic Communication attracts students from all over the world to Campus Helsingborg
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, I...
-
11 Jan 2023
Research seminar: “Songs for place and tourism management”
Welcome to join us for a unique research seminar on place branding with researcher and Associate Professor Massimo Giovarnardi, University of Bologna, Italy.
-
20 Dec 2022
Christmas feeling at the Master's programme
In December the students on the Master's programme in strategic communication organized their traditional Christmas potluck at Campus Helsingborg.
-
24 Nov 2022
Researchers organize the 2023 International Communication Association (ICA) preconference: Organizing in the Face of Global Crises
This preconference is organized by researchers at the department participating in an ongoing NOS-HS network on strategic communication. It explores the complex communicative proces...
-
23 Nov 2022
Department of Strategic Communication is hosting the 7th Annual Conference of the International Place Branding Association (IPBA)
The conference brings together scholars, practitioners and students of place branding and the related fields of nation branding, public diplomacy, city branding, country branding, ...
-
11 Aug 2022
Autumn semester starts on August 29th
We wish new students welcome to the Department this autumn. Our programmes start in the beginning of the semester with a mandatory introduction.
-
11 Apr 2022
Open seminar on public diplomacy and gender
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 id...
-
8 Feb 2022
Conference about affective polarization hosted by the Department and the Nordic MAP Network
The term affective polarization refers to the extent to which citizens feel more negatively toward other political parties than toward their own.
-
21 Dec 2021
Closed for Christmas at the Department of Strategic Communication
Between December 23 and January 9, the Department of Strategic Communication will be closed because of Christmas and New Year holidays.
-
11 Oct 2021
Assistant professor Hui Zhao receives the best paper award from EUPRERA 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 corpor...