Welcome to the Department of Communication (IfK) at the University of Münster.

The newly designed and fundamentally revised fourth edition of the Handbook of Public Relations was published at the beginning of the year. Edited by Peter Szyszka, Romy Fröhlich and Ulrike Röttger, the handbook offers a comprehensive overview of the research and action field of public relations on around 1,100 pages.

The IfK Münster has a new partnership with the Department of Media and Communication at Eötvös Loránd University in Budapest. Starting in the coming winter semester 2025/26, bachelor's and master's students at the IfK will have the opportunity to study in the Hungarian capital for a semester as part of the ERASMUS programme.
 

All IfK facilities will close on Friday, 20.12.2024 at 12:00 noon and will remain closed until 05.01.2025 inclusive. The entire building E will be closed from 23/12/2024, 16:00, up to and including 05/01/2025.

Jakob Jünger and Henrieke Kotthoff have released version 3.0 of the volkeR package on CRAN. The new version now includes cluster analyses and principal component analyses. This allows groups to be identified in data sets and variables to be summarised into dimensions in order to clearly present complex relationships.
 

In autumn 2025, the IfK will host the annual conference of the Journalism Studies/Journalism Research Group in Münster on the topic of ‘Journalism and Borders’. The conference will take place from 24 to 26 September as a face-to-face event in the rooms of the Language Centre at Bispinghof. A doctoral colloquium will also open the conference on 24 September.