Susanne Holmström, PhD, M.Soc.Sc. (1947)

Adj. professor, Roskilde University, Denmark.

Focus of research: Organisational legitimation processes and organisational societal responsibility; observations of a reflective paradigm as a characteristic feature of late modern legitimization processes.

Ph.D. thesis 2003 – "The Sensitive Organisation of the Reflective Society (Social systemic reconstructions of the evolution in corporate legitimacy and societal responsibility)”.

For "Perspectives & Paradigms: An Intersubjective and a Social Systemic Public Relations Paradigm", she was in 1998 awarded with EUPRERA's 1st Prize for the best European dissertation in public relations.

Co-initiator of the full academic study (5 years) in public relations, established on a socio-scientific base at the University of Roskilde in Denmark in 1986.

Co-founder and member of steering group of LOKE, Nordic network for research in legitimacy, organisation, communication and ethics www.ruc.dk/pr/LOKE.

Member of the Board of EUPRERA, European Public Relations Education and Research Association, www.euprera.org.

Member of research network Values in Organisations (Værdier i Virksomheder) www.viv.ruc.dk (2000-2005), and Leadership in A Changing World.

Member of the editorial board of International Journal of Strategic Communication.

Member of the board of Danish Communications Association/Dansk Kommunikationsforening (the Danish Public Relations Association) 1981-1985.

Co-initiator BPRV 1988.

Own consultancy network (Susanne Holmström Group) since 1973.