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5 November 2021
EUPRERA Digital Transformation Network: presentation on November 25
Based on members’ feedbacks, the previous EUPRERA Digital PR network has been re-focused on Digital Transformation and calls for new team members.

The network aims at developing a greater understanding of the new trends characterizing the digital communication field (i.e. Digital Transformation, Artificial intelligence, Chatbot-based relationships) and creating new knowledge concerning the different strategic and tactical practices across different European countries.

Among the expected outcomes, there are offline and online spaces of discussion and the creation of a body of theoretical and practical knowledge useful for research and teaching activities.

On November 25 at 5.00 pm CET, an online meeting will be held to present the network and all colleagues who are interested can attend and then decide whether to join (those who are or become members of EUPRERA can join the network). For receiving the link, please send an email to the network leader Grazia Murtarelli (grazia.murtarelli@iulm.it).

More info about the network
2 November 2021
Postdoctoral position at the University of Vienna

The University of Vienna invites applications for a postdoctoral position in public relations research at the Department of Communication. The application deadline is December 1, 2021.

The Department of Communication at the University of Vienna is one of the largest worldwide in its field and has a strong focus on research.

The full-time postdoc position is limited to 6 years and part of the Department’s Corporate Communication Research Group. Applicants should have a PhD in Communication Science or a related field (e.g. Business Administration, Psychology). A specialization in one or more of the following expert areas is of advantage: Employee communication, Digital communication, CSR, Crisis communication, Persuasion, Media effects.

More info & application
2 November 2021
Engaging diverse communities: a guide to museum Public Relations

This book by Melissa A. Johnson details how institutions can use communication fundamentals to establish and maintain relationships with a range of cultural groups and constituencies. To do so, the author interviews communicators at cultural heritage museums to understand the challenges of representing communities based on racial, ethnic, generational, immigrant, and language identities.

Melissa also presents an analysis of communication tactics in more than 200 art, history, African American, American Indian, and other ethnic museums. It guides through best public relations practices, especially in digital media relations, website content production, social media, and event planning. The text also addresses visual aesthetics, cultural expression, and counter-stereotypes.

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29 October 2021
EUSER conferences and journals – ICMS abstract deadline on Nov. 27

EUSER invites colleagues to ICMS XXVI, the 26th International Multidisciplinary Conference on Recent Research and Ideas. The conference will take place in-person and online at Ghent University on December 10-13. Abstract and registration deadline: November 27.

EUSER also reminds that:

⇒ The next ICMS editions in Madrid and Amsterdam are already available for registration.

⇒ Interested colleagues can also join ICOC, the Continuous Online Conference.

⇒ EUSER’s journals are published on a new platform and are now indexed in Elsevier’s Mendeley.

21 October 2021
W. Johansen and F. Frandsen awarded as Distinguished Scholars

EUPRERA has named Prof. Dr. Winni Johansen and Prof. Dr. Finn Frandsen, from Aarhus University in Denmark, Distinguished Public Relations Scholars. The lifetime award recognizes their outstanding contribution to research and education in public relations as a social science discipline on an international level. They have been awarded on October 8, 2021, at Universidad de Navarra, Spain, on the occasion of the EUPRERA annual congress, by the association’s president Prof. Dr. Angeles Moreno.

About Winni Johansen

Winni Johansen (PhD, Aarhus School of Business) is Professor of Corporate Communication at the Department of Management, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences (Aarhus BSS), Aarhus University (Denmark).

Winni has for many years contributed internationally to developing research and education in corporate and strategic communication. She is both an inspiring and committed educator and a sharp researcher who has the ability to combine sharp theory with solid empirical studies.

Winni is an energetic force. Her energy, enthusiasm and sharp intellect spread to everyone: students, research colleagues and practitioners.

When it comes to research, she has made great contributions, perhaps especially in the development of organizational crisis communication, together with her weapon bearer Finn Frandsen, but also in areas such as public communication, social media, and the institutionalization of strategic communication in private and public organizations. Together with Finn Frandsen, she is the originator of Rhetorical Arena Theory and the multivocal approach to crisis communication.

She is also co-editor, with Robert Heath, of the impressive International Encyclopaedia of Strategic Communication I-III.

She has served as visiting professor at highly ranked universities and business schools in Norway, Sweden, Finland, France, Italy and Senegal. She has also consulted with organizations in the private and public sector.

About Finn Frandsen

Finn Frandsen (born on January 14th 1956 in Holstebro, Danmark) graduated from Aarhus University, first in French and history of ideas and later in Romanesque philology (French and Italian).

He has been employed at Aarhus School of Business (today Aarhus University) since 1987. He is Professor of Corporate Communication at the Department of Management, Aarhus School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University since 2004. His primary areas of research are organizational crisis, crisis management and crisis communication.

He has been involved in developing the theory of the Rhetorical Arena and the so-called Multivocal approach to crisis communication.

From 2001 to 2016 he was Director of the Centre for Corporate Communication (CCC) at the School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University (Denmark). He is a member of the Advisory Board for the European Communication Monitor as well as Corporate Communication International, Baruch College, CUNY, USA. He has also been a member of the board of the Danish Communications Association.

He is the Regional Editor for “Corporate Communications: An International Journal” and a member of the Editorial Board for – among others – the “Journal of Communication Studies” and “Public Relations Review”.

Finn Frandsen has also served as a Visiting Professor at highly ranked business schools and universities, in France, Sweden, Norway, Finland and Usa. In 2015, he was awarded the Order of Dannebrog, an honor reserved for Danish citizens who have particularly contributed to the arts, sciences or business life.

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other Distinguished Scholars
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15 October 2021
Back from the EUPRERA XXII Congress: Best Papers, Best Theses and more

After two long and challenging years, the EUPRERA XXII Congress was held at Universidad de Navarra in Pamplona, Spain, on October 7-8. The title of the congress “The Camino of Strategic Communication: (re)discovering the human element in public relations in unpredictable times” was un-intentionally prophetic in the scope and relevance of its mission.

The human element was central in the post-pandemic paradigm of PR academic research declined in the 53 papers, 4 panels, 7 posters presented in different tracks.

The congress alongside the stimulating paper presentations was enriched with two acclaimed keynote speeches: Johanna Fawkes whose presentation “A path through the woods: new directions for public relations” defined the possible avenues for a more critical, conscious and sustainable PR research; and professor Ramón Salaverria who discussed the theme of “Journalists, users, robots. Understanding the vicious triangle of disinformation”.

To be mentioned also the Paper Development Workshop, this year’s novelty which becomes a stable element in the EUPRERA congress, and the PhD Seminar, a long-lasting tradition consisting in three days of strong team working.

On October 8 at the conclusive moment of the congress the Awarding Ceremony recognized the best papers, reviewer, doctoral and master theses, as well as two new Distinguished Scholars.

Best Papers

The EUPRERA Scientific Committee headed by Sabine Einwiller selected as best papers:

“Navigating Turbulent Political Waters: Organizational Stances and Public Perceptions of NBA’s International Crisis with China” by Hui Zhao (Lund University) and Chiara Valentini (Jyväskylä University).

“Strategic Internal Communication for Effective Internal Employer Branding” by Nina Pološki Vokić, Ana Tkalac Verčič and Dubravka Sinčić Ćorić from Zagreb University.

“CSR in Hypermodern Times: Towards a New Measurement of Segmentation of Socially Conscious Publics” by Sarah Marschlich (Zurich University) and Ganga Dhanesh (Zayed University) (picture).

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Emerald Professional Impact Award

Emerald Group Publishing delivered the yearly Emerald Professional Impact Award to Christopher Ruppel, Julia Stranzl and Sabine Einwiller with their paper “Employees’ Personal Crisis within an Organizational Crisis: When a Lack of Transparency and Support Causes Job Frustration and Disengagement”.

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Best Reviewer

EUPRERA rewards the great and precious work done by the reviewers. This year the award goes to Anne-Marie Cotton from Arteveldehogeschool University College, Belgium, who has contributed with careful, thorough, and useful reviews to the success of the congress.

Best Doctoral Thesis

EUPRERA recognized as Excellent PhD thesis the dissertation “Corporate agenda for strategic topic planning Theoretical framework and empirical findings on topic-based corporate communications” by Alena Kirchenbauer from University of Hohenheim, Germany.

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Best Master Theses

The 2021 winning master thesis where both addressing the role of PR in a central social issue like sexual violence:

Practical Impact Award – “Put your students before your public image”: A Critical Discourse Analysis of Strategic Communications in the University of Warwick Rape Chat Scandal” by Clara Heroux-Rhymes from London School of Economics and Political Science, UK.

Theoretical Impact Award – “Sexual Violation, Weinstein and Speaking Out: The role of public relations and media in legitimising accounts of sexual violation” by Iris Lopez Wyld from University Of Stirling UK (picture).

The 2021 Awarding Ceremony has been an opportunity to reward also the 2020 winners who, due to the pandemic, could
be awarded only online last year.

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Distinguished Scholars

The EUPRERA community unanimously recognized as Distinguished Scholars in Public Relations Winni Johansen and Finn Frandsen from Aarhus University, Denmark, for their long standing career of high caliber research and recognized service > MORE INFO

15 September 2021
The Nordic Communication Report 2021

The Nordic Alliance for Communication & Management (#NORA) welcome the launch of The Nordic Communication Report 2021.

In collaboration with the European Communication Monitor series, and the report provides the first ever pan-Nordic study of the communication field, delving into important themes, such as trends in the digitalization of communications, the changing professional roles of communication practitioners.

The report highlights the specific settings of communication management and the strategic mindset that Comm. professionals in Nordic have in linking business strategy and communication activities. The report shows that European countries, compared to the Nordics, consider digitalizing the communication processes and building a digital infrastructure as more important.

More info and report download here
15 September 2021
PhD course in Strategic Communication at Lund University

The Department of Strategic Communication at Lund University in Helsingborg, Sweden is organizing an international PhD course on “The emerging field of Strategic Communication” from January 17 – 21 2022.

The main part of the course is a compulsory one-week intensive gathering with a combination of lectures, seminars and workshops at Lund University in Helsingborg, at which participants have the opportunity to discuss strategic communication in relation to their own PhD projects.

Applicants should apply for the course before by November 1, 2021 by sending an e-mail to jesper.falkheimer@isk.lu.se for provisional acceptance.

More info

 

2 September 2021
MARPE Diplo: an amazing journey, and its resources are now available for free

August 31st, 2021, has been the last day of this 3-year amazing journey called MARPE Diplo, organised by a team of members in the ambit of the EUPRERA projects. From the organising team led by Anne-Marie Cotton:

It is a bitter-sweet feeling for the MARPE Network team, but we are delighted that the project exceeded our expectations on so many levels and we are looking forward to future endeavours!
We created a special page on our website to showcase the results of the project.
We invite you to visit this page, explore the various materials and, if possible, integrate them in your work. In the Erasmus spirit of collaboration and openness, we hope you will find them useful and will get in touch with us, we would appreciate the feedback, the questions, the curiosity.

What you will find on the Results page

1. A video overview of the MARPE Diplo project – we recommend this video not only because it presents the conceptual journey of the project, but it also is a best practice in team collaboration: script created by the team members from Belgium, France, Portugal and Romania, narration done by our UK colleague who kept in touch even post-Brexit, video created by our talented colleagues from Spain. The end result is lovely! (however, we might be biased, so please take a look for yourselves).

2. The MARPE Diplo Publications: a communication & diplomacy glossary reflecting our project approach, two curriculums for LLL and Master programmes, as well as a presentation (abstracts, chapter index) of the MARPE Book that will be published by Springer in October 2021!

3. The full videos, synthesis videos and/or thematic videos of the MARPE Diplo activities:

  • the 5 MARPE Diplo Talks
  • the MARPE Diplo ISP
  • the MARPE Conference
  • the MARPE Diplo webinars
Visit the
MARPE Diplo results page!
1 September 2021
Job opportunity as Lecturer in Public Relations in London – deadline September 22

The London College of Communication – UAL is looking to recruit an early career academic in the field of Public Relations. You will join our team of academics and industry practitioners working on  the BA (Hons) Public Relations and in relevant areas across the Communications and Media programme. The role requires a specific focus on at least one of the following: public relations, marketing, branding, digital marketing, integrated marketing communication, industry experience, professional practice, reputation management, and engagement with diversity and inclusion in media and public relations.

The London College of Communication is a constituent college of the University of Arts London and a world leader in creative communication education. It specialises in media-related subjects including advertising, animation, film, graphic design, photography and sound arts.

Applications are possibile until: 22 September 2021 23:55 BST

more info and application 

 

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