Stefanie Pukallus

Stefanie Pukallus is professor of public communication and civil development and the Faculty of Social Sciences director of PGR studies. She is a senior fellow of the Higher Education Academy and the founding chair of the HCPB Hub, which is a network that brings together academics and practitioners who are interested in the communicative conditions of peaceful cooperation within civil societies and counts nearly a hundred active members.

Stef’s research focus is the role of public communication in civil society in the development, strengthening, rebuilding, diminishment or destruction of it. She has been involved in a variety of funded research projects, undertaken consultancy for the UN, the European Commission and the European Parliament. Stef is also academic director of the Global Listening Centre and is a close collaborator of the Centre for Freedom of the Media (CFOM).