CPD Doctoral Dissertation Grants are intended to recognize and support the work of emerging scholars from around the world engaged in cutting-edge research on public diplomacy. Each year, a review committee at CPD selects doctoral students with particularly promising dissertation topics in the area of public diplomacy to receive grants of $2,500 in support of their doctoral research. 

Isabelle’s research mainly concerns Sweden’s public diplomacy and enactment of foreign policy discourse in the international arena. In her dissertation project, she studies how public diplomacy as a communicative practice makes meaning of foreign policy. The focus lies on the processes in which narratives and discourses of ideological issues in how Sweden’s feminist foreign policy are constructed.

Isabelle holds a B.A. in Communication Science and Sociology from Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a M.Sc. in Strategic Communication from Lund University. For her Master thesis, in which she studied the translation of feminism in Sweden’s nation brand communication, she received The Gullers Grupp Award. Prior to joining Lund University, she worked in journalism, corporate communications and brand management in Germany, Denmark, Sweden and Liechtenstein.