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

On 18 July 2025, a total of 89 graduates of the Institute of Communication Science (IfK) were bid farewell in the castle auditorium. Prof Dr Helena Stehle, Managing Director of the IfK, congratulated a total of 13 Master's and 73 Bachelor's degrees as well as 3 doctorates from the summer semester 2025.

Johanna Stahl and Noemi Struckmeier bring science to the feeds of their fellow students at the SchlauRaum science festival.

For her extended abstract "Debate Spaces Audiences Actually Want? A Case Study of the Public Spaces Incubator" Hannah Ötting was honoured with the Top Extended Abstract Award of the ICA Journalism Studies Division. Florian Wintterlin received the ICA Journalism Studies Division Top Faculty Paper Award for his work on ‘Comparing News Beat Structures Across 13 Countries: From Geographic to Topical and Sub-Specialised Division of Labour’. This year's annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) took place from 12 - 16 June 2025 in Denver, Colorado, USA.

Prof Dr Thorsten Quandt has been awarded a 2.5 million euro ‘ERC Advanced Grant’ by the European Research Council (ERC). Over the next five years, he will use this funding to research how certain online communities, which are primarily made up of young men, become dangerous environments. In a two-stage selection process with over 2,500 applications from all disciplines, a total of 281 researchers have now been awarded one of the coveted Advanced Grants, including 35 from Germany.

This year's annual conference of the International Communication Association (ICA) is focusing on ‘Disrupting and Consolidating Communication Research’ and will take place from 12-16 June in Denver, Colorado, USA. Researchers from the IfK Münster will also be represented at the internationally relevant conference, which brings together communication researchers from all over the world to discuss current specialist topics.