Media, Careers and Professional Identities

Police Careers and Media

In the morning session, media and communication scholars will discuss their studies on aspects of policing in a setting of media uses.

“Characters in Film Series as a Resource for Developing a Professional Identity: A Focus Group Study of First-Year Danish Police Students” Johannes Riis, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen

“A Comparative Analysis of Danish and German Police Officers’ Media Usage: Information Seeking, Entertainment and Cultivation Patterns” Jochen Kinast, post. doc, University of Münster and University of Copenhagen

“The Third Arm of the Welfare State? An Ethnographic Study of Welfare Controllers as
Grey Detectives” Schwarz, B., Bagger, C. & Søe, S.O., presented by Christoffer Bagger, post.doc., Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen

Careers and Professionalization

In the afternoon session, scholars from the field of career counselling and educational sciences, will present studies on career guidance and career inequalities in welfare professions.

“Internships as a central activity of career guidance. Insights into a cooperative research and teaching project to foster career development of adolescents” Dr. Katja Driesel-Lange, Full Professor, Department of Education, University of Münster

“Patriarchal Professionalization and Welfare Professional Career Inequalities” Jan Thorhauge Frederiksen, Associate Professor, Department of Communication, University of Copenhagen