Press and Public Relations

Current media coverage

"Wie Citizen Science die Wissenschaft stärkt" - In the episode from June 9^th, 2025, of the Campus & Karriere educational magazine on Deutschlandfunk, Monika Taddicken discusses the role of Citizen Science in science. Among other things, she discusses the extent to which the participation of people without academic training in research projects is science, which forms of participation are possible and to what extent citizen science can stabilise trust in science. At: Deutschlandfunk.de, 06/09/2025.
„Neues aus der Forschnung" - The portal Wissenschaftskommunikation.de presents a new publication by Kaija Biermann, Monika Taddicken and Lennart Banse. The qualitative interview study is part of the SCOPE research project and examines the subjective relevance of public engagement in science communication by professional university communicators.
At: Wissenschaftskommunikation.de, 03/11/2025.
„Rude communication during the pandemic" - The portal Wissenschaftskommunikation.de presents a new publication by Nicola Peters. The study examines which rude comments German virologists received on Twitter/X during the corona pandemic and whether these were associated with doubts about their trustworthiness.
At: Wissenschaftskommunikation.de, 10/08/2024.

You can find a complete list of the media reports here.

Lecture series as part of the Anxiety Culture Project (ACP)
Lecture series "Mechanics of Panic: In Discourses, Images and Actions" by the Anxiety Culture Project (ACP) at the Christian Albrechts University in Kiel on the 30^th of November 2023 with Nicola Peters on the topic of "Hate Speech and Incivility in Public Online Discussions about Scientific Topics".
Lunchtalk of the Transferunit
Lunchtalk of the Transferunit on the 11^th of October 2023 with Nicola Peters, Evelyn Jonas and Kaija Biermann on the topic "How can science communication react to science skepticism and science denial?". You can find the recording of the lunch talk here.
Building trust via digital health communication
Got-IT-Talk with Dr. Anne Reif on the 24^th of November 2021 on the subject of trust in science and digital health communication. You can find the conversation here.

You can find a complete listing of the public presentations here.