Dr. Teresa Y. Branch-Smith
30159 Hannover
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Teresa Y. Branch-Smith, who publishes her academic works under 'T.Y. Branch', is a philosopher of science. She has studied biochemistry, the history and philosophy of science, and science communication. She completed her studies in Canada at the University of Ottawa, the University of Toronto, Laurentian University, and the University of Waterloo, where she obtained her PhD under the supervision of Heather Douglas. Her dissertation was titled 'Contextualizing Science for Value-Conscious Communication’. The role of values in science and the impact they have on how science is communicated to non-experts is her area of interest.
Prior to being recruited to Leibniz Universität Hannover as the permanent postdoc of the SOCRATES project, she was a postdoctoral fellow at the Cologne Center for Contemporary Epistemology and the Kantian Tradition (CONCEPT) working on "Moral obligation, epistemology and public health: the case of vaccine hesitancy”. Before this she was a postdoctoral researcher at Institut Jean Nicod, for the EU Horizon 2020 project: Policy, Expertise and Trust in Action (PEriTiA).
Main Areas of Research and Teaching
- Values in science
- Science communication