For her dissertationPerspectives & Paradigms: An Intersubjective and a Social Systemic Public Relations Paradigm she was awarded the 1998 EUPRERA award for best Europeandissertation in public relations. In 2004 she became a full Ph.D. for her thesisThe Sensitive Organisation of the Reflective Society.
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