Günter-Thiele-Prize and Günter Thiele Research Fellowship 2024
Lina Blenninger honored for excellent thesis, Caroline Siegel receives the Günter Thiele Research Fellowship 2024
Professorship for Strategic Communication
News
Award for theoretical contribution on maturity models
The paper "Communication maturity: The next big thing? A critical review of maturity models in strategic communication and their contribution to measurement & evaluation and excellence" received a Best Paper Award at the 27th International Public Relations Research Conference (IPRRC) in Orlando,…
REFRESH 2024 - The conference on communication management on April 12, 2024
Anyone working in corporate and organizational communication faces new challenges every day. Hardly any other profession changes so quickly and dynamically. The state of international research in this field is developing just as rapidly. The REFRESH CONFERENCE is a one-day event on April 12, 2024 in…
Günter F. Thiele celebrates his 90th birthday
On February 12, 2024, Dr. h.c. Günter Thiele celebrates his 90th birthday. The Institute of Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University and the Department of Communication Management would like to congratulate him and wish him all the best!
Annual Report Communication Management 2023
We are pleased to be able to provide you with an overview of the activities of the past year in the enclosed annual report of the Communication Management teaching and research department at the Institute of Communication and Media Studies at Leipzig University.
You can find the annual report as a…
Start of application for M.A. Communication Management: All information about the Masterclass 2024
Info brochure now available - apply from 02 to 31 May 2024
Profile
Professor Zerfass and his team are experts in strategic communication, corporate communications, positioning and management of communication departments, measurement and evaluation, communication consulting, digital communications, CommTech and international communications.
An overview of all current and past research projects and publications can be found in the databases linked here.
For those who are able to read German is also worth taking a look at the current annual report of the department.
Characteristics of research and teaching at the Chair are:
- Interdisciplinarity: We link communication science with management research and business administration.
- Leadership: We are in close contact with decision-makers in the business world and address topics of strategic relevance.
- Internationality: We have an unrivalled network and joint projects with the leading research universities in our discipline worldwide.
- Theoretical approach: We address fundamental questions instead of small-scale studies and develop innovative theories, concepts and frameworks.
- Future orientation: We identify new topics and shape the future of research, teaching and knowledge transfer on strategic communication.
Team
Research
Institutions
The following institutions are located at the Chair of Strategic Communication. They support research and teaching at the Institute for Communication and Media Studies in various ways.
