Like the 2021 awards, the top-ranked "master thesis at universities" at this year's ceremony of the Franz Bogner Science Award for PR was once again written and supervised at our Department. Gamze Görgülü's thesis entitled Kommunale Bürger*innenkommunikation in Zeiten von COVID-19 – Eine qualitative Untersuchung der externen Risiko-, Krisen- bzw. Notfallkommunikation einer österreichischen Landeshauptstadt received the first prize in said category "Master theses at universities". The thesis was supervised by Sabine Einwiller.

Generally, the Franz Bogner Science Award for PR honors outstanding BA theses, MA theses as well as (every three years) dissertations dealing with issues in Public Relations.