Prof. Dr. Georg Ruhrmann

About

• Academic and professional background

  • since 2021: Module Supervisor and teaching position in the part-time Master's program „e-Health and Communication“ at the Friedrich-Schiller University Jena  
  • 03/2021: Emeritus appointment by the President of the Friedrich Schiller University Jena and retirement.
  • since 2019: Teaching position in the part-time Master's program "Safety Management" ("Sicherheitsmanagement") at the  Hochschule of Economics and Law (HWR) in Berlin.  
  • 04/2021 until 09/2021: Assignment to a senior professorship in communication studies with a focus on digitization and the public sphere by the President of Friedrich Schiller University Jena ( substitution of the professorship)
  • Since1998: Chair of Fundamentals of Media Communication and Media Effects at the Friedrich Schiller University Jena
  • 1993: Habilitation (communication science) on risk communication about genetic engineering
  • 1986: Doctorate (Sociology) on the structure and process of news reconstruction.
  • 1975-1983: Studies of sociology (diploma) and biology (pre-diploma) at Bielefeld University
  • 1973: Studies of Philosophy and Sociology at the University of Marburg

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• Thematic focus

  • Health and science communication: Health and science communication: analysis of health information presentation from different perspectives (german: "Rezeption"); TV content analysis of science reporting, experiment aubout analysis of health information from different perspectives (german: Rezeptionsexperimente); risk communication and consumer protection; crisis communication and food safety; knowledge transfer and policy advice.
  • Social integration: Media and (dis)integration, discrimination and tolerance in intergroup relations; Linguistic Intergroup Bias (LIB) and Linguistic Category Model (LCM); Strategic Framing and Social Media Engagement; Media Consultation and Program Oversight.

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• Further information

  • 2021: Appointment as a full member of the BfR Commission for Risk Research and Risk Perception at the Federal Institute for Risk Assessment (BfR) in Berlin for the term of 2022 - 2025.
  • Since 2021: Research projects on health literacy and health communication in the COVID-19 pandemic.
  • Since 2016: Member of the Assembly of the Thuringian State Media Authority (TLM) in Erfurt (as representative of the Thuringian universities)
  • 2008-2016: Project Manager in the DFG Priority Program 1409 "Science and the Public Sphere"