The Handbook of Public Sector Communication

Notes on Contributors

Edited by Vilma Luoma‐aho and María‐José Canel

Kaidi Ahern is a doctoral student at the University of Jyväskyla, School of Business and Economics, Finland, where she researches public sector communication and change communication. She has previously published on public sector communication and change. She has been a public sector practitioner for 15 years and currently works as the head of the Communications Department of the Office of the President of the Republic of Estonia.

Xabier Barandiarán Irastorza holds a BA in Political Science and Sociology and a PhD in Sociology from the University of Deusto. He is currently a lecturer at the University of Deusto. He teaches BA courses in Communication and Social Work, specifically teaching the following subjects: – Institutional and Corporate Communication on BA courses in Communication. – Strategic Management of Business Communication on BA courses in Communication–Sociology on BA courses in Social Work, in Basque. His publications mainly focus on strategic communication and social capital. In recent years he has been working on subjects related to political culture and social capital.

Jan Boon is a postdoctoral researcher within the Politics and Public Governance research group at the Department of Political Science, University of Antwerp, Belgium. He has a background in political communication, performed his PhD on issues of collaboration and coordination, and is currently involved in a large‐scale project ...