[ecrea] Doctoral seminar on crisis communication

International doctoral seminar

STUDYING CRISIS COMMUNICATION:

NEW THEORIES AND METHODOLOGIES



Organized by Centre for Corporate Communication, Department of Business 
Communication, School of Business and Social Sciences, Aarhus University 
(Denmark)



Hosted by the International Research Group on Crisis Communication, 
Department of Media Studies, Ilmenau University of Technology (Germany)



When? From September 30 to October 2, 2013

Where? Ilmenau University of Technology



The seminar, which spans over three days and is aimed at doctoral 
students within the social sciences and the humanities, is divided into 
two parts.



Part (I) consists of an advanced presentation and discussion of recent 
crisis management and crisis communication research. The focus is on how 
the discipline of crisis management has developed from a narrow to a 
broad perspective, and from a simple broad to a complex broad 
perspective; and how crisis communication has moved from a rhetorical 
and text-oriented approach to a more strategic and context-oriented 
approach with a view to allied fields such as risk communication, issues 
management and reputation management. A special interest is devoted to 
international crises and the role of the new social media.



Part (II) consists of an advanced introduction to the methodologies of 
crisis communication including both quantitative methodologies and 
research techniques (experimental designs, content analysis, and 
surveys) and qualitative methodologies and research techniques 
(especially case studies as a research design). The seminar also 
includes a one-day long case study-based workshop focusing on theory 
building.

Before the seminar, the participants will be asked to hand in a two-page 
long presentation of their research project. After the seminar and in 
order to receive the 5 ECTS, the participants will be asked to submit a 
short paper (8-10 pages), which will be commented on and evaluated by 
the teachers based on the content of the seminar.



After the seminar, you should be able to:

Understand how crisis management and crisis communication have developed 
as academic disciplines since the mid-1980s

Identify and discuss key concepts, models and theories within the field 
of crisis management and crisis communication

Understand the mechanisms of theory building

Apply various types of research designs and research methods within the 
study of crises, crisis management and crisis communication



Teachers:

Professor W. T. Coombs & professor S. J. Holladay, U. of Central Florida 
(USA)

Professor F. Frandsen & professor W. Johansen, Aarhus University (Denmark)



Organizers:

F. Frandsen & W. Johansen, Aarhus University (Denmark)



General information about the seminar

ECTS: 5

Readings: A text compendium will be published on September 2, 2013 (in a 
Dropbox folder). To get access to the folder, please contact Finn 
Frandsen ((ff /at/ asb.dk))



Important! Deadline for registration: September 16, 2013



Registration: Please contact Vibeke Vrang ((vv /at/ asb.dk)), Department of 
Business Communication, Aarhus University



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