Participation in the Cluster of Excellence

  • Head of the Centre for Research Communication
  • Advisor to the Board of Directors and the General Assembly
    • Responsible for the Cluster of Excellence’s media and public relations (national and international media activities, social media, multimedia, website, newsletter, marketing)
    • Identifying and editing socially relevant research topics for media and non-academic target audiences
    • Advising scholars on transfer matters and liaising scholars and the media as well as non-academic institutions as interview partners, guest authors and speakers
    • Developing and designing formats for research communication (transfer event, exhibitions, film and lecture series, political panels, dialogue with the citizens)
    • Maintaining contact with representatives from the media, from politics, education, religions and culture, and with cooperation partners in museums, foundations and publishing houses
    • Imparting media skills to professors and junior researchers in interview and media trainings
    • Teaching: Introduction to research communication in seminars and workshops

 

 

 
  • CV

    Academic Education

    Study of History, English and Economics at the University of Cologne and at Trinity College, Dublin
    Scholarship holder of Cusanuswerk
    Magister Artium (German Master of Arts) at the University of Cologne in History, English and Economics; Final thesis with Prof. Dr. Wolfgang Schieder on religion in 19th-century decorum books for middle-class women

    Positions

    Lecturer at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), Department for Research Communication at the Institute for German studies
    Head of the Centre for Research Communication at the Cluster of Excellence "Religion and Politics" at the University of Münster; Advisor to the General Assembly; Lectures and workshops on research communication for the humanities and social sciences; Organisation and presentation of research communication events
    Head of the regional editorial office of North Rhine-Westphalia of the Catholic News Agency (KNA) in Bonn; Nationwide specialist journalistic publications on politics, religions, churches, ethics, education, culture and social issues; Presentation of panel discussions, conferences and book reports on politics, religions and social issues; Media courses for junior journalists and East European journalists; PR consulting for organisations
    Editorial journalist at the KNA central editorial office in Bonn and at the KNA regional office of North Rhine-Westphalia in Cologne
    Employment: Department of English, University of Cologne (Dr. Ansgar Nünning, chair of Prof. Dr. Natascha Würzbach); Engagement: art bookshop Walther König, Cologne; Greven Verlag, Cologne; graphic designing for Magdalenen Verlag, Holzkirchen
    KNA traineeship in Bonn, Berlin and Frankfurt/Main, also covering print, photography and television at the Institut zur Förderung publizistischen Nachwuchses (institute for the advancement of media juniors, ifp) in Munich
    Freelance work: press office of the University of Cologne; press office of the Düsseldorf fair; Frankfurter Allgemeine Zeitung (F.A.Z.); Kölner Stadt-Anzeiger; Rheinische Post; Westdeutscher Rundfunk (WDR)

    External Functions

    Science communication programme (WPK, Wissenschaftskommunikationsprogramm) of the Austrian Science Fonds (FWF, Österreichischer Wissenschaftsfonds)
    Siggener Kreis 2024 „Vertrauen in Wissenschaft und Forschung“ (Trust in Science and Research), Gut Siggen (Holstein), Toepfer Stiftung, ZEIT Verlag, Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD)
    Communicator Award of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation) and the Stifterverband (Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany)
    Funding of projects for Research Communication (Teilprojekte Öffentlichkeitsarbeit) of the Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft (DFG, German Research Foundation)
    Social media and website exhibition "Kleine Fächer - Große Potenziale" (Small Disciplines – Great Potential) (digital extension of the museum exhibition of the same name on small disciplines in the humanities at the Archaeological Museum of University of Münster in X @religionpolitik und Instagram @religionundpolitik)
    The nationwide first training programme“Religious Journalism” of the Cluster of Excellence „Religion and Politics“ in cooperation with the ifp School of Journalism and the Catholic Academy Berlin
    Working group „Society and Politics“ of the 101st German Catholic Convention in Münster (101. Deutscher Katholikentag)
    Open-air lecture theatre of the Cluster of Excellence of the University of Münster at the 101st German Catholic Convention in Münster (101. Deutscher Katholikentag) (on religious policy today, and religion and violence in the past and present)
    „Religion and Politics. The Magazine“
    Center for Digital Humanities at the University of Münster
    Public lecture series “Music and religion” of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” at the University of Münster
    Working committee “Leitlinien zur guten Wissenschafts-PR” (guidelines for good PR in research), organised by the umbrella organisation “Wissenschaft im Dialog” (Science in Dialogue, WiD) and the Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation (German association of university communication)
    Public lecture series “Religious policy today” of the Cluster of Excellence “Religion and Politics” of the University of Münster
    Bundesverband Hochschulkommunikation (German association of university communication)
    National symposia on research communication (Forum Wissenschaftskommunikation (Wissenschaft im Dialog – Science in Dialogue), annual conference of the German association of university communication)
    Institut zur Förderung publizistischen Nachwuchses (institute for the advancement of media juniors, ifp) in Munich
    Alliance for Science (“1648 - Dialogues for Peace” working group, Member)
    Regular journalists’ get-togethers in Cologne, Bonn and Münster
    Research communication study trip to universities and think tanks in New York and Washington, supported by North American offices of the German Research Association (Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, DFG)
    Journalistis’ trips to Central and Eastern Europe
    Advance journalists’ trainings (e.g., Akademie für Publizistik, Friedrich-Ebert-Stiftung)