Idea and content of the PhD Seminar

The aim of the Seminar is to provide an international setting where doctoral students in PR and corporate communication can present their ongoing work, get feedback from experts and peers and establish a valuable network for the future.

The seminar will benefit from the impact of the congress. The main focus of the Seminar will be on the work in progress of participants. A special focus will be on the variety of subjects, approaches and methods used in different universities. A variety of working forms will be organised to make it dynamic and inspiring.

Participants must make a brief presentation of their work at the seminar and prepare to give feed back to up to 3 papers that must be read on beforehand. In a few days the papers will be sent to all participants. The seminar will be flexible in structure and will contain following agendas:

                - Introduction of all participants and their universities; 
                - Reflections on the impact of the congress;
                - Presentation of and feedback to all projects; 
                - Getting an overview of all approaches, theories and methods, linkages between projects;
                - Building up a PhD network in the future; 
                - Special imputs from experts and facilitators;
                - Quiet hours; 
                - Good meals and good company.           

Experts and facilitators

Inger Jensen

Associate Professor in social sciences at Roskilde University. One of the initiators of the master’s degree program in public relations at Roskilde University. Research and teaching areas: Strategic Processes, Business Ethics, Organisational Legitimacy, Social Responsibility, Human Resources, Competence and Public Relations. Member of research network on Agents and Institutions – on opening the borderlines between economics and sociology. Past President of EUPRERA and chairman of the Research Committee. Member of the jury of EUPRERA-students award. Supervisor of Ph.D. students in public relations. December 2000 – April 2007 vice rector of Roskilde University. Responsible coordinator of EUA project on Creativity in Teaching and Learning.

Alessandra Mazzei

Associate Professor of Corporate Communication and Public Relations at IULM Univerisity of Milan, member of the Faculty of the Doctoral School in Economics, Marketing and Corporate Communication and of the Faculty of the Master Degree in Political, Social and Institutional Communication at IULM University.
Research and teching areas are Corporate communication, Public Relations, Internal Communication, Communication audit, Relationship Management, Corporate Reputation Management.
Active in management education and in business consultancy in the field of Corporate Communication, Business process re-engineering, Human Resources Management.