About
Truls Strand Offerdal is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Department of Rhetoric and Linguistic Communication, University of Oslo. His research focuses on democratic participation through text, crisis communication, and political communication. He holds a degree in Media Studies from the Department of Media and Communication and completed his doctoral thesis on Norwegian authorities' crisis communication during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Key research interests include conflict analysis in democratic processes, political history, and digital political campaigns. He contributes to the 'Voicing Democracy' research project exploring democratic participation, and the POLKOM – Centre for Studies of Political Communication. His work emphasizes communication strategies in prolonged crises and transparency mechanisms in public health crises.
Recent publications analyze adaptive crisis communication during pandemics, strategic disengagement in social media, and transparency beyond information disclosure. His research bridges theoretical frameworks with practical insights from Scandinavian public health responses.
