14 Nov 2023 | #Authorship, #OpenScience, #Power
Scientists are increasingly expected to engage with the public. At the same time, they face increasing hostility when they speak out. Female scientists, as a more frequent target of sexist hostility, fear being attacked and enjoy speaking out less than their male counterparts. The question arises: Is science communication really feasible for everyone in the current hostile environment? This short analysis focuses on female scientists as a subgroup of a large survey sample and how their assessment of public engagement differs from that of their male counterparts.
07 Nov 2023 | #OpenScience, #Power
In August 2023 Benedikt Fecher conducted an interview with Clemens Blümel from the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) on the topic of ‘what happens when science opens up and communicates’ and the emerging challenges for future scientific communication.
17 Oct 2023 | #Infrastructure, #OpenScience
In this interview Teresa Völker speaks with Dr. Volker Meyer-Guckel about challenges and possible futures of science communication.
26 Oct 2022 | #Infrastructure
Kateryna Suprun on the fast-track digital transformation Ukrainian universities are currently going through in the face of the Russian war of aggression.
03 Aug 2022 | #GlobalScience, #OpenScience
In this Short Analysis, Jefferson Pooley is reviewing/introducing PubPub, a web-based publishing platform hosted by a nonprofit, the Knowledge Futures Group (KFG)
25 Jul 2022 | #Impact, #ScientificAdvice
In this contribution, Irene Broer & Nataliia Sokolovska describe what inspired them to create their own taxonomy of advisory formats and dive into the characteristics of advisory organizations and how they can be systematized.
14 Jun 2022 | #COVID-19, #Ethics, #Infrastructure
In this short analysis the three authors aggregate findings from four research projects to answer questions regarding the accelerated digitalisation of education due to the Covid-19 pandemic.
17 May 2022 | #Ethics, #GlobalScience
In this article the authors argue for a utopia driven by SDG’s and respectful engagement with nature.
04 May 2022 | #GlobalScience, #Power
This opinion piece draws attention to the disadvantage of the academic STEM system, especially for female academics.
20 Apr 2022 | #COVID-19, #ScientificAdvice
The case of pandemic prevention is one of many examples to show that holistic perspectives in disaster prevention and related fields have gained prominence in recent years.
11 Apr 2022 | #Impact, #ScientificAdvice
This short analysis is showing up ways of how the quality of scientific policy advice, as an important part of the recognition of scientific activity, can be checked and how these processes and results can be made usable again for science.
06 Apr 2022 | #COVID-19, #ScientificAdvice
In this short analysis P. Atkinson highlights the uncertainties associated with the field of evidence-informed policy making, especially in crisis situations such as Covid-19.
17 Jun 2020 | #COVID-19
Science journalists find experts, deal with new developments intensively, do fact-checking, analyse data and communicate knowledge to the public. All of this has been important in the past weeks and may lead to a difference in the future, says our author Juliane Meißner.
07 May 2020 | #COVID-19, #Infrastructure
In this interview with Teresa Völker, Prof. Villa talks about the initiative “Nicht-Semster” (calling for a cancellation of the regular spring semester during the Corona crisis) and how the crisis impacts the infrastructure of the german higher education system.
