Everyone is talking about science communication. The Stifterverband awards a Communicator Prize, Christian Drosten's tweets and podcasts achieve an unimagined reach, the largest publishing companies generate their profits not with publications but with data, libraries can barely pay the rising costs of publications, although the authors themselves are often asked to pay.

In her inaugural lecture, Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wuttke discusses the status quo of academic communication under digital conditions and dares to look ahead.

Who is using which channels, why and with what success? And what contribution can libraries make? A joint reflection on science communication and libraries in the globally networked world.

Prof. Dr. Ulrike Wuttke studied Dutch and English Philology (Magister) and Editing Studies (Master) at the Free University of Berlin. She received her doctorate (Doctor of Literature) from the University of Ghent in 2012. In 2019, she obtained her MA degree in Library and Information Science at the TH Cologne while working.

Ulrike Wuttke has been Professor of Library Science - Strategies, ×ãÇò±È·ÖÍø Development, Science Communication at the Department of Information Science at the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam since 2023. She has been a deputy professor there since 2020 and a research assistant since 2017. Her research and teaching focus on research data (management), digital humanities and open science. Prior to this, she was involved in various (inter)national, interdisciplinary research projects (including the G?ttingen eResearch Alliance at the G?ttingen State and University Library (SUB), AGATE Open Science Portal for the Union of the German Academies of Sciences and Humanities, and as a research associate since 2017 for the University of Applied Sciences Potsdam in national and international research projects, including PARTHENOS (EU H2020), RDMO (DFG), FDM-BB (MWFK) and in third-party funding acquisition and teaching.

Ulrike Wuttke is a board member of the German-speaking Digital Humanities Association (DHd) and is involved in various committees in the field of research data, open science and digital humanities, including the NFDI4Culture Steering Board and as Deputy Chief Editor for the digital humanities metablog Open Methods. She is the author of numerous specialist publications.

Further information can be found at: https://ulrikewuttke.wordpress.com/

Inaugural lecture

The inaugural lecture is open to the public. Anyone interested is welcome to attend on campus in House D or via the live stream. Following the lecture, there will be a small reception in the foyer of House D.

When: 08/05/2023, 6.00 pm
Location: House D / Room 011

Online: Zoom-Link
Meeting ID: 664 1430 1200