Hella de Haas, M.A., studied Communication and Media Studies and German Studies at the University of Bremen. At the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI) located there, she was a writing and research coach in the seminar "Non-standard Methods" in 2018. She completed her Master's degree in Communication Studies at the Westfälische Wilhelms University of Münster, where she worked as a research assistant at the Research Training Group "Trust and Communication in a Digitalized World" in 2020 and at the chair of "Forms and Processes of Public Communication" with Prof. Dr. Julia Metag in 2021. Since 2021, she has been working at the Chair KMW I at the Institute of Social Science at Heinrich Heine University Düsseldorf in the DFG-funded project "Two Sides of the Same Coin: Public Trust in Science and Scientists' Trust in the Public". Teaching and research areas include science communication, gender studies in communication science, and qualitative methods.

• Science Communication
• Gender Studies in Communication Studies

Current project: „Two sides of the same coin: Public trust in science and scientists‘ trust in the public (PTS/STP)“ [Link]

de Haas, H. (2020). Politikerinnen und Machtzuschreibungen. Die historische wie aktuelle Darstellung von Politikerinnen in den Medien. [Female politicians and attributions of power. The Historical and Current Representation of Women Politicians in the Media]. Engender Academia. Available at https://engenderacademia.files.wordpress.com/2020/05/engender-2.1.pdf

Kohler, S.; de Haas, H.; Marcinkowski, F. (2023, accepted). Ein beschädigtes Verhältnis? Der Einfluss der Covid-19-Pandemie auf die Vertrauensbeziehung von Wissenschaft zu Journalismus [A damaged relationship? The impact of the Covid 19 pandemic on the trust relationship between science and journalism.] Presentation at the Annual Meeting of the DGPuK-Divisions Journalism and Science Communication in Passau (September 20-22, 2023).

Kohler, S.; Marcinkowski, F.; de Haas, H. (2023, accepted). Scientists under attack: A setback for public engagement with science and technology? Presentation at the Annual Conference of the IAMCR (International Association of Communication Research) in Lyon, Frankreich (July 9-13, 2023).

de Haas, H.; Kohler, S.; Marcinkowski, F. (2023). „Scientists during the COVID-19 pandemic. From running towards to running away from the public”. Presentation at the Biannual Conference of the PCST Network (Public Communication of Science and Technology) in Rotterdam, Netherlands (April 12-14, 2023).

de Haas, H. (2019). "Wäre sie ein Mann, wäre dieser Text nicht geschrieben worden" [If she was a man, this text would not have been written.] Presentation at the student lecture series Gender Studies at the Humboldt University of Berlin (June 25, 2019).