Academic communication - espenmalling.com

During my university studies, I got the chance to do various kinds of academic communication, engaging a broad audience with scientific content through papers, websites, published articles, public presentations, and more. Check out details and samples below

Was enrolled at Aarhus University from 2007 to 2013 where I completed my bachelor of arts in social anthropology and elite master of arts in cognitive semiotics, focusing, respectively, on the social nature of human beings and our cognitive means for communication – not least the psychology of language.

Extremely well-written and well-composed text. A pleasure to read.Peer F. Bundgaard, associate professor

During my studies, I produced a number of academic papers – including my top-rated 2013 thesis ‘On a Proposed Standardized Method for the Analysis of Social Movement Framing‘ – did peer reviewing for the renowned scientific journal Cognitive Semiotics, was employed as research assistant for three years at the Research Clinic for Functional Disorders and Psychosomatics, and much more.

However, of particular interest here, my time as a master’s student also saw me dealing with various kinds of communication activities – both within the confines of the institution, but in some instances also directed at a broader, public audience. Below are a few of the highlights.

Published article. Was published in the Aarhus University journal Semikolon with the article ‘Making (Bodily) Sense of Social Conflict‘, which dealt with the cognitive processing of social movement communication.

Student fair presentation. Hired by the department to promote cognitive semiotics at a student fair, I created a slide presentation and gave a public presentation that directly contributed to several students’ decision to join the master’s program.

Internal communication. As one of the main driving forces behind social life at the department, I created and managed the cognitive semiotic Facebook group along with a Facebook page and other promotional activities for the bi-weekly Friday bar, which I also established and organized.

Website projects. In addition to my activities at the university proper, I also created a couple of more public outlets for my academic interests. The development and management of the websites socialtalks.net and lockert.info (neither currently active) was the main manifestation of that.

Whereas the online forum socialtalks.net fostered discussion among an international community of social science students, lockert.info was a blog dealing with various approaches to the study of social movement communication – in particular, the concept framing.