Together with Felix Klein (Federal Commissioner for the Fight against Anti-Semitism and for the Protection of Jewish Life in Germany), Melanie Brinkmann (Helmholtz Centre for Infection Research/Institute of Genetics at TU Braunschweig), and Dirk Sadowski (Leibniz Institute for Educational Media/Georg Eckert Institute), our junior research group leader Friederike Hendriks discussed antisemitism and hostility towards science and possible dangers for society and science on the podium. The debate took place in the old town hall of the city of Braunschweig and was moderated by Shelly Kupferberg (journalist/Berlin).
The event was organized by the Bet Tfila - Research Centre for Jewish Architecture at the TU Braunschweig, which is also providing documentation and a recording: Report on the pages of Bet Tfila
Counting insects, measuring water quality, recording your own mood: Citizen science involves citizens in research processes. But what processes of trust can be observed within such projects? How do scientists perceive citizen science projects? And how are insights gained through citizen science received by the wider public?
In November, the joint project Trust in CItizen Science (TiCS) will be launched to get to the bottom of such questions. The applicants for the Braunschweig sub-project are Dr. Friederike Hendriks and Prof. Dr. Monika Taddicken. The sub-projects of the joint partners are led by Dr. Marlene Altenmüller and Prof. Dr. Mario Gollwitzer (LMU Munich) and Dr. Susanne Hecker and Silke Voigt-Heucke (Museum für Naturkunde Berlin). The project is being funded for three years by the Federal Ministry of Education and Research with almost 900,000 euros.
We are looking for several student assistants (m/f/d) to support research in our junior research group as soon as possible.
The main focus is on research into science communication (e.g. transcribing qualitative studies, coding, literature research) as well as support in the planning and implementation of training courses for early career researchers. Students of suitable disciplines who are enrolled at the TU Braunschweig or the HBK Braunschweig are eligible to apply.
All further information can be found in the job advertisement.
In the magazine of the TU Braunschweig, the head of the junior research group fourC Dr. Friederike Hendriks reports on the importance of science communication and the growing communicative demands on scientists. Science aims to further develop society, which is why society has a legitimate right to have science communicated to it. Thoughts on what constitutes good science communication and how this can be achieved by scientists can be found here: Wissenswertes über Wissenschaftskommunikation - TU Braunschweig | Blogs (tu-braunschweig.de)
Exciting discussions and insightful exercises around one's own science communication - on five training days between May 21 and 29, 2022, our fourC training took place for the first time at TU Braunschweig's North Campus. The participating master students of natural and technical sciences faced the task of communicating as effectively and appropriately as possible about their own research work in various situations.
They all mastered this task very well. The participants and we as the project team were correspondingly satisfied at the end of the training sessions. More impressions, background information and pictures about our trainings can be found here.
Our JRG leader Friederike Hendriks took part in a webinar titled "Science communication and trust in science, scientists, and science institutions” and discussed together with Fabien Medvecky (New Zealand), Marta Entradas (UK/Portugal), and Julia Tagüeña (Mexiko).
The event was part of the Public Communication of Science and Technology Network (PCST) webinar series, network president Jennifer Metcalfe (Australien) moderated the event excellently.
Here's the recording of the event.
In episode 8 of the Wisskommquartett, Ricarda Ziegler (Wissenschaft im Dialog), Niels Mede (University of Zurich), Elisabeth Hoffmann (TU Braunschweig) and our junior research group leader Friederike Hendriks discuss the results of the recently published Science Barometer 2021, a representative survey of the German population on their attitudes and beliefs about science initiated by Wissenschaft im Dialog.
How high is trust in science? What does the coronavirus pandemic have to do with it? How much should scientists comment on political decisions?
You can hear the answers here.
The Special Issue Stay safe and stay at home! Research on Language and Communication related to COVID-19, edited by Regina Jucks (Westfälische Wilhelms-Universität Münster) and Friederike Hendriks was published in the Journal of Language and Social Psychology and unites seven papers on communication around COVID-19.
You can find the Special Issue here.
Since November 2021, the team of the Junior Research Group fourC is complete. Friederike Hendriks, Lennart Banse, and Julian Fick shortly introduce themselves here.