Dr. Petra Bättig-Frey

Work at ZHAW

Position

Lecturerer Sustainability Communication

Education and Continuing education

Education

• Ph.D. / Plant Biotechnology
  ETH Zurich
  01 / 1997 - 01 / 2000
• Master / Experimental Biology
  ETH Zurich
  08 / 1992 - 08 / 1996

Projects

• Gestalte Zürich / Team member / Project ongoing
• Augmented Reality Outdoor Mission "Escape the fossils" / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Gräserland - an innovative scientific experience / Project co-leader / Project ongoing
• Naturzentrum auf der Halbinsel Au / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Augmented Reality - Outdoor Mission / Project leader / Project completed
• Vorprojekt Umweltarena - Ausstellung Dekarbonisierung / Team member / Project completed
• Wirkungsorientierung Projektförderung Internationale Bodensee-Hochschule / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Wirkungsorientierung der Umweltbildungsprojekte des BAFU / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Ecological Engineering Living Lab / Team member / Project completed
• Wildstauden-Mischpflanzungen zur Förderung der Biodiversität (ober- und unterirdisch) und Humuserhalt im urbanen Raum / Team member / Project completed
• Entwicklung der Studienwoche "Gymi facts" zum Thema Suffizienz / Team member / Project completed
• Nachhaltiger Lernort Schloss Hegi / Project co-leader / Project completed
• Ausstellung: Die Kunst des guten Lebens / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Exhibition on Nutrition / Team member / Project completed
• Entwicklung eines Leitfadens zum Wirkungsmodell / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Eco Missions / Deputy project leader / Project completed
• Sustainability incubator / Project leader / Project completed
• Soil Garden / Project leader / Project completed
• Future Landscapes / Project leader / Project completed
• AgroInnoTool / Team member / Project completed
• Pearls of Sustainability / Project leader / Project completed
• Umwelttypen / Project leader / Project completed
• Vision Gärten / Project leader / Project completed
• RESURSI / Team member / Project completed
• Evaluation der Ausstellung zum Thema "Wald" / Project leader / Project completed
• Eco-confession-chair / Team member / Project completed
• Wirkungsevaluation "Zuerich isst" / Project leader / Project completed
• Ausstellungskonzept "nachhaltige Ernährung" / Project leader / Project completed
• Wirksamkeitsanalyse "Graeserland" / Project leader / Project completed
• Blicke in Raum und Zeit - Eine kulturhistorische Zeitreise in die Surselva / Project leader / Project completed

Publications

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; West, Mirjam; Skelton, Rahel; Berger, Verena,

  2023.

  How to save the world with zombies? : a scientainment approach to engage young people.

  Journal of Science Communication.

  22(05), pp. N01.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.22323/2.22050801

• Jaisli, Isabel; Bättig-Frey, Petra; Eymann, Lea; Mariani, Ennio; Stucki, Matthias,

  2019.

  Scientainment for sustainability : the eco-confessional as a new approach for life cycle thinking.

  Sustainability.

  11(20), pp. 5686.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.3390/su11205686

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Jäger, Monica Ursina; Treichler Bratschi, Regula,

  2018.

  Combining art with science to go beyond scientific facts in a narrative environment.

  Journal of Museum Education.

  43(4), pp. 316-324.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.1080/10598650.2018.1523624

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Müller, Urs,

  2023.

  Using zombies to communicate climate change!

  .

  In:

  Fischer, Daniel; Sahakian, Marlyne; King, Jordan; Dyer, Jen; Seyfang, Gill, eds.,

  Teaching and Learning Sustainable Consumption.

  London:

  Routledge.

  pp. 277-281.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.4324/9781003018537

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Berger, Verena; Skelton, Rahel,

  2020.

  Zombie attack! : using scientainment to teach about sustainable food [paper].

  In:

  WSF 2020 : Program and Abstract Book.

  The 8th World Sustainability Forum, Virtual, 15-17 September 2020.

  Basel:

  MDPI.

• Jaisli, Isabel; Bättig-Frey, Petra; Itten, René; Stucki, Matthias,

  2018.

  Scientainment for sustainability : the eco-confessional as new approach for awareness raising [poster].

  In:

  1st Life Cycle Innovation Conference (LCIC), Berlin, 29-31 August 2018.

• Burgdorf, Silvia; Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2024.

  "Laut Denken" im Erdreich.

  IUNR Magazin.

  2024(01), pp. 18-19.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-30480

• Skelton, Rahel; Bättig-Frey, Petra; Keller, Regula; Muir, Karen; Stucki, Matthias,

  2021.

  Die Kunst des guten Lebens : Ausstellung #misläbe.

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-21421

• Amrein, Simon; Kulli Honauer, Beatrice; Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2019.

  Erdreich : der Schatz unter unseren Füssen.

  IUNR Magazin.

  2019(01), pp. 26-27.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-18796

• Müller, Urs; Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2018.

  Mehr Wirkung bitte! : ein Erfahrungsbericht.

  IUNR Magazin.

  2018(1), pp. 14-15.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-3729

• Müller, Urs; Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2016.

  Evaluationsbericht "Zürich isst : der Erlebnismonat rund um Ernährung, Umwelt und Genuss".

  Wädenswil:

  ZHAW Zürcher Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften.

• Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2015.

  Neue Ausstellung 'Fleisch, aber'.

  Transfer.

  2015(2), pp. 8.

  Available from: https://doi.org/10.21256/zhaw-7247

• Stucki, Matthias; Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2021.

  The art of living a good life : an interactive personalized exhibition experience that reduces the environmental impacts of different lifestyles.

  In:

  78th LCA Forum «Life Cycle Thinking = Lower Environmental Footprint?», Zurich, 13-14 September 2021.

  Available from: https://video.ethz.ch/events/lca/2021/autumn/78th/036756ca-455e-460f-b22d-a9e92cffa7c9.html

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Jäger, Monica Ursina; Müller, Urs,

  2020.

  Narrative environments : new settings for environmental education.

  In:

  Conference Abstracts : Health, Environment, and Education in Challenging Times.

  The 14th Winter Meeting : The International Consortium for Interdisciplinary Education about Health and the Environment, online, 4-5 December 2020.

  pp. 2.

  Available from: https://hee-journal.uni-koeln.de/winter-meeting

• Bättig-Frey, Petra; Jäger, Monica Ursina,

  2020.

  Using impact orientation for effective climate communication.

  In:

  SGM 2020 Symposium, Abstract booklet Session 19 (Tackling the Climate Crisis).

  18th Swiss Geoscience Meeting 2020, Zurich (Switzerland), 6-7 November 2020.

  Swiss Academy of Science : Platform Geosciences.

  pp. 477.

  Available from: https://geoscience-meeting.ch/sgm2020/wp-content/uploads/abstract_volumes/SGM_2020_Symposium_19.pdf

• Jaisli, Isabel; Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2017.

  Ökobeichtstuhl - Provoking and Entertaining : Confessions of a ‘Scientainment’ Project.

  In:

  EUPRIO Conference, Mannheim, Deutschland, 1. Juli 2017.

• Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2016.

  Fleisch, aber : eine Ausstellung für Fleischesser, Flexi- und Vegetarier.

  In:

  ScienceComm'16, Grandson, 22.-23. September 2016.

• Bättig-Frey, Petra,

  2013.

  Gräserland, das grüne Gold an der ZHAW.

  In:

  ScienceComm'13, La Chaux-de-Fonds, 26.-27. September 2013.

Publications before appointment at the ZHAW

Simultaneous analysis of the bidirectional African cassava mosaic virus promoter activity using two different luciferase genes. Frey, P. M., Scharer-Hernandez, N. G., Futterer, J., Potrykus, I., and Puonti-Kaerlas, J., Virus Genes 22, 231-242, 2001.

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