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Ursula Lutzky visited the University of Palermo as a discussant on the PhD committee for Walter Spezzano’s thesis, “Corpus-Assisted Discourse Studies for Digital Brand Analysis: Applications in…

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Ursula Lutzky presented her paper “Webcare across industries” at the Corpus Linguistics 2025 Conference in Birmingham, UK. The study advocates for a broad definition of webcare, highlights…

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Laura Hackl and Jens Seiffert-Brockmann successfully hosted the Interdisciplinary Conference on Financial Communication Research (Fincom 2025) from July 14th to 16th, 2025 at WU. The event featured…

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Franzisca Weder contributed to the free sustainability guide published by the Volksbanken network, titled “Nachhaltigkeit nachhaltig kommunizieren”:…

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Franzisca Weder, together with Penelope M. Kierans, has published a new paper on transformative agency in professional communication education: Weder, F., & Kierans, P. M. (2025). Unorthodox?…

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Franzisca Weder, together with Celia Kay Weaver, has published a new paper on narrative agency: Weder, F., & Weaver, C. K. (2025). Claiming narrative agency: Public relations ideals and realities in…

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Julia Stranzl, together with colleagues from the University of Vienna, has published a new chapter on workplace appreciation: Stranzl, J., Einwiller, S., & Ruppel, C. (2025). Employee Appreciation—a…

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Ursula Lutzky held a habilitation workshop for all interested and prospective habilitation candidates offering guidance and support on the habilitation process. The workshop covered topics such as…

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Erich Sommerfeldt (University of Minnesota) visited our department and held a guest lecture with the title „The good organization communicating well: A role for public relations in building a civil…

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ÖBB hosted the launch event for the book “Praxishandbuch Nachhaltigkeitskommunikation”, co-edited by Franzisca Weder. During the evening, Florentina Höhs and Julia Stranzl took part in panel…

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On May 7, 2025, Jens Seiffert-Brockmann participated as a speaker in the panel discussion “Disinformation, Fake News, and the Responsibility of PR” at KOMKON25, the Austrian Communications Congress.…

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As part of the Media & Communication course led by Franzisca Weder and Florentina Höhs in the BizCom Master’s Program, Catharina Fendt, Head of Communications at IKEA Austria, held a guest lecture and…

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In her role as Student and Early Career Representative (SERC) of the International Communication Association (ICA), Julia Stranzl hosted an online panel titled “Publishing as an Early Career Scholar.”…

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Jens Seiffert-Brockmann visited our partner university, the University of National and World Economy (UNWE), in Sofia, Bulgaria. He participated in an Erasmus+ Teaching Exchange at the Department of…

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Franzisca Weder, together with Karin Huber-Heim, published a new book, with chapters contributed by Florentina Höhs and Julia Stranzl: Huber-Heim, K., & Weder, F. (Eds.). (2025). Praxishandbuch…

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Change Agents for Sustainability

Prof. Franzisca Weder and her team just published the final report of their analysis of the jobmarket for sustainability and DEI managers, their (self-defined) role in organizational and corporate…

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Awards for Milena Nagengast

We are thrilled to announce that our colleague Milena Nagengast has received two awards for her outstanding dissertation entitled "Evaluation in Earnings Announcements: An Analysis of Their Accounting…

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"Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection"

Mathew Gillings‘ new book, Corpus Linguistic Approaches to Deception Detection has just been published by Routledge and is available in both hardback and eBook here:…

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Letter of Award

We are happy to announce that our colleague Tetiana Shevchenko was awarded with an Ernst Mach Grant. Tetiana received the grant for her project on "Corporate Blacklisting: Strategic business…

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Remedies against the Pandemic: How politicians communicate crisis management Edited by Nadine Thielemann and Daniel Weiss “Remedies against the Pandemic” offers a fresh perspective on political…