PhD Journalism

At the Department of Journalism Studies, communication and journalism are at the heart of everything we do.

We understand journalism and communication broadly and in exciting, innovative ways.

Our supervision expertise lies in the following areas:  

• Data journalism 
• Humanitarian crisis communication 
• Journalistic (un)freedoms, journalism safety and the issue of impunity 
• The role of unmediated communication, the visual and performative arts as well as the factual and fictional media in peacebuilding 
• Journalism in crisis, conflict and post-conflict/peacebuilding 
• Mediated identity narratives, memorialisation and collective memory
• The role of news journalism in society and political regimes past and present 
• Strategic communication and public diplomacy 
• The mediation of terrorism and extremism as well as of conflict, peace and reconciliation  
• Polarization and depolarization in public discourse 
• The use of the visual in news reporting such as the pocket cartoon
• Humour in political communication and international relations
• Public perception of international politics
• Environmental communication/journalism