Dr. Teresa Y. Branch-Smith
30159 Hannover
Profil
Teresa Y. Branch-Smith, die ihre wissenschaftlichen Arbeiten unter dem Namen "T.Y. Branch" veröffentlicht, ist Wissenschaftstheoretikerin. Sie hat Biochemie, Wissenschaftsgeschichte und -philosophie sowie Wissenschaftskommunikation studiert. Ihr Studium absolvierte sie in Kanada an der University of Ottawa, der University of Toronto, der Laurentian University und der University of Waterloo, wo sie unter der Betreuung von Heather Douglas promovierte. Ihre Dissertation trägt den Titel 'Contextualizing Science for Value-Conscious Communication'. Ihr Interessengebiet ist die Rolle von Werten in der Wissenschaft und deren Einfluss auf die Art und Weise, wie Wissenschaft an Laien kommuniziert wird.
Bevor sie als Postdoktorandin des SOCRATES-Projekts an die Leibniz Universität Hannover eingestellt wurde, arbeitete sie als Postdoktorandin am Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) zum Thema "Moral obligation, epistemology and public health: the case of vaccine hesitancy". Davor war sie Postdoktorandin am Institut Jean Nicod im Rahmen des EU Horizon 2020 Projekts: Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action (PEriTiA).
Schwerpunkte in Forschung und Lehre
- Die Rolle von Werten in den Wissenschaften
- Wissenschafskommunikation
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Publikationen
2022 Branch, T.Y. & G. M. Duché (2022) Affective Labor in Integrative STS Research. Science, Technology, & Human Values. doi.org/10.1177/01622439221143804. [Open Access]
2022 Branch, T.Y. (2022) “Enhanced Epistemic Trust and The Value-Free Ideal as a Social Indicator of Trust.” Social Epistemology 36 (5): doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2114114. [Open Access]
2022 Branch, T.Y. and Gloria Origgi (2022) “Social Indicators of Trust in the Age of Informational Chaos.” Social Epistemology 36(5): doi.org/10.1080/02691728.2022.2121622. [Free Access]
2022 Gundersen, Torbjørn, Donya Alinejad, T.Y. Branch, Bobby Duffy, Kirstie Hewlett, Cathrine Holst, Susan Owens, Folco Panizza, Silje Maria Tellmann, José van Dijck and Maria Baghramian (2022) A New Dark Age? Truth, Trust, and Environmental Science. Annual Review of Environment and Resources 47:1. doi.org/10.1146/annurev-environ-120920-015909. [Open Access]
2022 Branch, T.Y., Gloria Origgi and Tiffany Morisseau (2022) Why Trust Raoult? How Social Indicators Inform the Reputations of Experts. Social Epistemology 36:3, 299-316. doi.org10.1080/02691728.2022.2042421.
2021 Morisseau T., T.Y. Branch and Gloria Origgi (2021) Stakes of Knowing the Truth: A Motivational Perspective on the Popularity of a Controversial Scientific Theory. Front. Psychol 12:708751. doi.org/10.3389/fpsyg.2021.708751. [Free Access]
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Lebenslauf (kurz)
seit 2023 Postdoctoral Researcher
Leibniz University Hannover, DFG-funded Center for Advanced Studies
Social Credibility and Trustworthiness of Expert Knowledge and Science-Based Information (SOCRATES)
2022-2023 Postdoctoral Fellow
Universität zu Köln, Philosophisches Seminar
Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT)
2020-2022 Postdoctoral Researcher
Institut Jean Nicod, DEC, Ecole Normale Supérieure - PSL
EU Horizon 2020 project: Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action (PERITIA)
2019 Ph.D. in Philosophy (under full name: Teresa Yolande Branch-Smith)
Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada
“Contextualizing Science for Value-Conscious Communication”
2018 Graduate Certificate in University Teaching
Centre for Teaching Excellence, University of Waterloo, Canada
“Creating Inclusive Classrooms amidst Discriminatory Content”
2014 M.A. in Philosophy
Department of Philosophy, University of Waterloo, Canada
“Reducing an Emergence of the Gaps: Computation for Weak Emergence”
2013 Graduate Diploma in Science Communication
Graduate Studies, Laurentian University, Canada
“Examining Factual Science on a Fictitious Frontier: A Qualitative Exploration of Science Content in the Videogame Mass Effect”
2012 M.A. in the History and Philosophy of Science and Technology, Canada
Institute for the History and Philosophy of Science, University of Toronto
2010 B.Sc. in Biochemistry, Honours. Specialization. Minor in Psychology
Biochemistry Department, University of Ottawa, Canada