April 2025: Insights into research practice through new formats 

We tell project biographies
The first format of the ‘Project Biographies - Affective Archives’ sub-project has been online since the beginning of April. It starts with the research diary ‘Emotional Formations in Vietnamese Berlin’, which traces the path of a team that investigated the emotional dynamics in the upbringing of Vietnamese migrant families in Berlin. What began as a research question becomes a dense narrative - with animated texts, videos and very personal insights. The researchers speak openly about methodological hurdles, cultural misunderstandings and surprising turning points. This project biography makes it possible to experience how knowledge is created in social and cultural anthropology: What questions drive researchers? What happens when an approach doesn't work? And how do you deal with uncertainties and ambivalences? Discover now

November 2024: Annual Conference of the Section for Media and Communication Sociology

Meike Haken gave a lecture on sciencefluencers at the annual conference of the Section for Media and Communication Sociology of the German Sociological Association from 21 to 22 November 2024 on the topic of social figures of the digital, which was supported by the Schader Foundation.

July 2024: ‘Siggen Circle’

From 7 to 11 July 2024, Meike Haken was invited to Siggen as a participant in the Siggen Circle with an impulse on the topic of trust and science. This unique experience offered the opportunity to engage in an inspiring exchange with a wide variety of actors in science communication and beyond.

The theme of this year's conference was trust in science and Meike Haken, as a ‘Siggener’, was able to gain valuable experience in all aspects of science communication, exchange ideas with interesting personalities from various fields of work and clarify the role of science/scientists with regard to the question of trust. The paper on the conference is coming soon...

The Siggen Circle was created on the initiative of the Federal Association of University Communication and Science in Dialogue to discuss central topics, challenges and trends in science communication in Germany from multiple perspectives.

April 2024: ‘WissKon24’ in Karlsruhe

The annual conference for communicating researchers organised by the National Institute for Science Communication (NaWik) was the first opportunity for the TPÖ to engage in dialogue with a Germany-wide Wiko community. A first ‘creative’ attempt at designing the project biographies was also made at the science comics workshop run by Dr Ariane Pessentheiner and Dr Sophie G. Elschner.