Åsa Thelander
Background
In 2002 I completed my PhD at Lund University in Media and Communication Studies at Lund University. I am now Associate Professor at the Department of Strategic Communication. I have served as Head of the former department of communication studies 2008-2011 and been programme coordinator for the Bachelor programme in Strategic communication. From 2003 until 2008 I was a Senior Lecturer at the Department of Service Management. During the same period I was programme coordinator for Retail Studies and Tourism Studies in the Service Management Programme. I was appointed excellent teaching practitioner (ETP) by the Faculty of Social Science in 2013.
Area of Research
My academic and research interest are focused on the relationship between consumers and organizations. In my dissertation I studied the role of advertising for consumers’ expectations on, experience of and memory from a charter trip. Since then I have been involved in a cross disciplinary and international research project on consumers’ relation to an international retail brand. I have also been involved in projects focused on crises communication. A recent research project consists of analysis of communication strategies for involving consumers in the brand. Other research areas of great interest are the role of visual communication, visual strategies and visual methods. Most studies are based on qualitative methodology such as interviews, observations and analyses of images.
Selection of recent projects
- Communication for innovation in urban environments. Communication opportunities and challenges for the urban renewal project H +. (2011-2013) Financed by Plattformen. Head of project.
- Co-creation in visual new media: Examining the experiences, conditions, and consequences. (2013-2014) Financed by NEMO.
Teaching
I teach a range of courses at undergraduate and post graduate level at the Department of Strategic Communication and other departments and programmes at Lund University. These courses and modules include qualitative methods and methodology, theories of consumption, risk and crises communication, branding and advertising. At present supervision of doctoral and master students take up most of my teaching involvement.
Publikationer
Hämtat ur Lunds universitets publikationsdatabas
Publikationer
- 2018
- The Security Guard and the Boy : Organisational Crisis Responses to Iconic Imagery
(2018)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- The Security Guard and the Boy : Organisational Crisis Responses to Iconic Imagery
- 2017
- Brand new images? Implications of Instagram photography for place branding
(2017) Cogitatio
Artikel i tidskrift - Curated Participation : – A Study of Everyday Photography in Organizational Communication Strategy
(2017)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Spaces of identity in the city : Embracing the contradictions
(2017) Routledge
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- Brand new images? Implications of Instagram photography for place branding
- 2016
- Curated images : Using visual social media to increase engagement among employees in a public organisation
(2016)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Rotation curation on Instagram: a cultural practice perspective on participation
(2016) Routledge
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Visualising crisis: smartphone photography in emergency events
(2016)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Curated images : Using visual social media to increase engagement among employees in a public organisation
- 2015
- Framväxten av strategisk kommunikation – att bygga en institution
(2015) Samhällsvetenskapliga fakulteten, Lunds universitet
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Is there an Instagram gaze? Social conventions governing amateur photography on visual social media
(2015)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - The challenge of internal stakeholder support for co-creational branding strategy
(2015) SAGE Publications Inc.
Artikel i tidskrift - The role of frames in a co-creation process
(2015) Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Artikel i tidskrift - Visuality and crisis communication
(2015)
Konferensbidrag: abstract
- Framväxten av strategisk kommunikation – att bygga en institution
- 2014
- City branding involving new media – implications for citizen participation
(2014)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Inledning
(2014) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Kvalitativ analys inom strategisk kommunikation
(2014) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - The challenge of internal co-creation for place branding
(2014) SAGE Publications Inc.
Artikel i tidskrift - The role of frames for value co-creation.
(2014) Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Artikel i tidskrift - Visuella metoder i kvalitativa intervjuer
(2014) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- City branding involving new media – implications for citizen participation
- 2013
- Konst som talar eller tilltalar; en utvärdering av projektet Konst i det offentliga rummet - experimentarena Helsingborg
(2013) [Publisher information missing]
Rapport
- Konst som talar eller tilltalar; en utvärdering av projektet Konst i det offentliga rummet - experimentarena Helsingborg
- 2012
- Art events as a communication strategy in place branding
(2012)
Konferensbidrag - Clashing rationales when using art events for visual urban renewal
(2012)
Konferensbidrag
- Art events as a communication strategy in place branding
- 2011
- Kulturinstitutioner och strategisk kommunikation
(2011) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Standardized marketing strategies in retailing? IKEA’s marketing strategies in Sweden, the UK and China
(2011) Elsevier
Artikel i tidskrift
- Kulturinstitutioner och strategisk kommunikation
- 2010
- A standardised approach to the world? IKEA in China
(2010) Lund Business Press
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - IKEA's image in three countries
(2010) Lund Business Press
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Publikstrategier för Dunkers kulturhus
(2010) [Publisher information missing]
Rapport - Retailer image - Conceptualisation, formation, methods and perspectives in previous research
(2010) Lund Business Press
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Studying image - a visual methodological approach
(2010) Lund Business Press
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - The Formation of Image over Time - do chinese, British and Swedish consumers buy the same things at IKEA?
(2010) Lund Business Press
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - What does it all mean? Summing up a research project
(2010) Lund Business Press
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- A standardised approach to the world? IKEA in China
- 2009
- A standardised approach to the world? IKEA in China
(2009) Emerald Group Publishing Limited
Artikel i tidskrift - Newspapers - image formation agents for retailers?
(2009) Gabler Verlag/GWV Fachverlage GmbH
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- A standardised approach to the world? IKEA in China
- 2008
- Hushåll på elmarknaden; Information och agerande
(2008) Elforsk
Rapport
- Hushåll på elmarknaden; Information och agerande
- 2007
- A Standardised Approach to the World?
(2007)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - An approach to use photo elicitation interviews
(2007)
Konferensbidrag: abstract - Att sätta en plats på kartan - Mediernas betydelse för platsmarknadsföring
(2007) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Newspapers - image formation agents for retailers?
(2007)
Konferensbidrag - Publikstrategier vid Kulturen i Lund
(2007) Kulturen i Lund & Statens kulturråd
Rapport - Retail Image As Seen Through Consumers' Eyes: Studying international retail image through consumer photographs of stores
(2007) Routledge
Artikel i tidskrift - Transferring International Retail Image Internationally
(2007) Oxford Institute of Retail management, The Saïd Business School, University of Oxford
Artikel i tidskrift
- A Standardised Approach to the World?
- 2006
- Blank Spaces. The Mediation of Nature in Travel Advertisements
(2006) Nordicom
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Dimensions of consumer image of a global retailer
(2006)
Konferensbidrag - Ikea in China
(2006)
Konferensbidrag - Studying store images - A visual methodological approach
(2006)
Konferensbidrag
- Blank Spaces. The Mediation of Nature in Travel Advertisements
- 2005
- Retail Image As Seen Through Consumers’ Eyes
(2005)
Konferensbidrag
- Retail Image As Seen Through Consumers’ Eyes
- 2002
- En resa till naturen på reklamens villkor
(2002) Department of Sociology, Lund University
Doktorsavhandling
- En resa till naturen på reklamens villkor
- 2000
- Hur nära kan man tillåta sig att komma? Att pendla mellan närhet och distans i forskningsprocessen
(2000) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Hur nära kan man tillåta sig att komma? Att pendla mellan närhet och distans i forskninhgsprocessen
(2000) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - Säger en bild mer än tusen ord?
(2000) Studentlitteratur AB
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- Hur nära kan man tillåta sig att komma? Att pendla mellan närhet och distans i forskningsprocessen
- 1999
- Gender Differences in Environmental Impacts from Patterns of Transportation. A case study from Sweden
(1999) Taylor & Francis
Artikel i tidskrift - När miljökrisen är här
(1999) Department of Sociology, Lund University
Rapport - The Role of the Mass Media in Environmental Concern
(1999) Department of Sociology, Lund University
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- Gender Differences in Environmental Impacts from Patterns of Transportation. A case study from Sweden
- 1998
- Miljöhot och medborgaroro: en rapport från Hallandsås hösten 1997
(1998) Styrelsen för psykologiskt försvar
Rapport - Möten på fältet. Kvalitativ metod i teori och praktik
(1998) Lund University
Working paper - Oro för miljön? En analys av oron bland Bjärebor i samband med händelserna vid Hallandsås
(1998) Sociologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- Miljöhot och medborgaroro: en rapport från Hallandsås hösten 1997
- 1997
- Environment and Behaviour in a Swedish Metropolitan Area
(1997) Department of Sociology, Lund University
Del av eller Kapitel i bok - What goes around comes around - the effect of values upon adolescents' attitudes towards environment and media behaviour
(1997) Department of Sociology, Lund University
Del av eller Kapitel i bok
- Environment and Behaviour in a Swedish Metropolitan Area
- 1996
- Malmöbon och närmiljön. Värderingar, behov och beteenden.
(1996) Sociologiska institutionen, Lunds universitet
Rapport
- Malmöbon och närmiljön. Värderingar, behov och beteenden.
Redaktör
- 2014
- Kvalitativa metoder i strategisk kommunikation
(2014) Studentlitteratur AB
Bok
- Kvalitativa metoder i strategisk kommunikation
- 2010
- Consuming IKEA, Different perspectives on consumer images of a global retailer
(2010) Lund Business Press
Bok
- Consuming IKEA, Different perspectives on consumer images of a global retailer
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