Research profile

Mikkel Fugl Eskjær, PhD, Associate Professor at the Department of Culture and Communication, Aalborg University, campus Copenhagen. He holds a PhD in Film Studies from University of Copenhagen.

Eskjær's research focuses on mediated communication about the environment and the more-than-human world. His work spans a broad range of topics within environmental communication and the environmental humanities, including climate change journalism, media coverage of environmental conflicts, environmental justice, climate activism, resilience, sustainability, and representations of the ecological crisis in popular culture.

Working primarily from a media-sociological perspective, Eskjær’s research draws on qualitative and quantitative methodologies, as well as more recent digital methods (automated content analysis, topic modelling, sentiment analysis). Previous projects include cross-cultural comparative studies and longitudinal studies of national and international climate change reporting.

Additional research fields include international communication, mediatization theory, and media sociology.

Eskjær has autored/co-authored three books and co-edited three anthologies. He is a founding member of the International Environmental Communication Association (IECA) and Chair of the Science and Environment Section, ECREA (2024-28). He has been a visiting scholar at NYU (2001-03), the Danish Institute in Damascus (2007-10), Dhaka University, Bangladesh (2014-15) and Ottawa University (2020-24).