Personal profile

Short biography

Franzisca Weder is Professor in Organizational and Sustainability Communication at the Department of Business Communication at WU Vienna University of Economics and Business, Vienna, Austria. Franzisca has 20 years of experience in researching, writing and teaching in the areas of Organizational Communication and Public Relations with a specific focus on Sustainability Communication and Corporate Social Responsibility. Before joining the Department of Business Communication, Franzisca worked as Associate Professor at the University of Queensland (School of Communication and Arts, Brisbane) and the University of Klagenfurt (Department for Media and Communication Studies, Austria); as Guest Professor, she worked at University of Alabama (USA), University of Eichstätt-Ingolstadt (GER), University of Waikato (NZ), RMIT (Melbourne, AUS) and University of Ilmenau (GER). Franzisca co-edited The Sustainability Communication Reader and Integrative CSR Communication, and her research appears in high ranked journals in strategic and environmental communication.

External positions

Honorary Senior Research Fellow , The University of Queensland

1 Aug 2023 → …

Alpen Adria University

Expertise

  • Sustainability
  • Strategic Communication
  • Organizational Communication
  • CSR
  • Storytelling
  • Action research
  • Environmental Communication
  • Public Relations
  • Culture of Sustainability
  • Interventionresearch

Austrian Classification of Fields of Science and Technology (OEFOS)

  • 508007 Communication science
  • 508015 Business communication
  • 508013 Public relations
  • 502022 Sustainable economics
  • 508006 Communication theory

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