Outreach
Science Communication
An important part of conducting excellent research is to communicate its processes, findings, conditions, and challenges.
Our approach to science communication is to utilize multifaceted ways and channels of communication to show the variety and diversity of research projects at ZiF. There are established forms of public relations like press releases or newspaper articles, lectures and panel discussions, or newer media channels and formats like YouTube, LinkedIn, BlueSky, Instagram, the podcast "InterSpaces", and the blog "Interdisciplinarity".
On these pages you can browse through our latest videos, podcast episodes and news posts. You can also subscribe to our monthly newsletter for regular updates on all ZiF activities.
Video: Grenzen der Wissenschaftskommunikation im Klimawandel
Klimawandel, Vulkanausbrüche, Pandemien: Weltweit arbeiten Forscher*innen daran, bedrohliche Phänomene zu verstehen und Lösungsansätze zu entwickeln. Doch gerade die jüngsten Krisen haben gezeigt, dass es für Wissenschaftler*innen nicht leicht ist, ihre Arbeit einer breiteren Öffentlichkeit zugänglich zu machen.
Podcast: Using New Methods to Support Interdisciplinary Collaboration
One subject we always think about at ZiF is how to support our fellows and their work in the best ways possible since they have to combine all their different disciplinary backgrounds, methods and research cultures in a few months of working together. To come to terms with these differences often takes up quite some of the joint research time. How is it possible to avoid more of the frictional losses and the possible dissatisfaction with interdisciplinary work? What kind of maybe more unusual – meaning within the scientific community – methods could be integrated into the framework of the research group to help them make their work as efficient as possible? You can listen to this episode here.
Publications: Research on Interdisciplinarity
"Inducing Interdisciplinarity: Irresistible Infliction? The Example of a Research Group at the Center for Interdisciplinary Research (ZiF), Bielefeld, Germany" by Sabine Maasen from the book "Practising Interdisciplinarity". Read More