[Commlist] An upcoming PhD course in Aalborg, Denmark: Re-imagining organizational socialization: The work of communication

Sign up for the PhD course “*Re-imagining organizational socialization: 
The work of communication*” is now open.

The lectures of the course are:

  * Professor Tim Kuhn, University of Boulder, USA
  * Professor Sine Just, RUC
  * Professor Dennis Mumby, University of Chapel Hill, USA
  * Associate Professor Lise-Lotte Holmgreen, AAU
  * Professor Peter Kastberg, AAU
  * Associate Professor John McClellan, AAU
  * Associate Professor Rebecca Gill, Wake Forest University, USA

The field of organizational socialization originates in the social 
sciences and is concerned with ways in which employees become integrated 
into organizations to meet corporate goals. This is, therefore, also 
often constructed as a management-centric endeavour, paying little heed 
to employee needs and well-being. However, changes in work, organizing, 
economics and politics in and around the post-modern organization 
requires new ways of thinking and talking about employees and 
organizations that address the uncertainties and unpredictability (such 
as job insecurity, precarity and anxiety) that follow from these changes.

The PhD-course takes a humanities perspective to this discussion, 
focusing on key concepts such as discourse, communication, identity, 
affect, power and relationality to understand organizational 
socialization and practices in the postmodern organization. This entails 
seeing the organization as a construct emerging through the joint 
communicative, material and embodied efforts of the people that populate 
it and hence, acknowledging the special condition of the employee. The 
PhD-course invites students to join the conversation on these concepts 
as well as relevant theories and methodologies to consider for their 
PhD-studies.

*Organizer:*

  * Lise-Lotte Holmgreen
  * Peter Kastberg

*Website: *Course: Re-imagining organizational socialization: The work 
of communication | AAU PhD Moodle 
<https://phd.moodle.aau.dk/blocks/vitrina/detail.php?id=2979>**

*ECTS: *3

*Venue*: Aalborg University, Denmark

*Date:* 6, 7, 8 May 2026

*Deadline: *15 April 2026

For inquiries regarding registration, cancellation or waiting list, 
please contact the PhD administration at (phdcourses /at/ adm.aau.dk). When 
contacting us please state the course title and course period.

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