The containment of the COVID19 pandemic relies heavily on the communication between public health organizations and individual social groups. Therefore, public discourses and discursive practices of specific audiences play a crucial role in the policy implementation during a pandemic. Through discourse analysis and qualitative interviews, the ...

The effects of the COVID-19 pandemic force researchers to identify and classify the many different events and developments during the crisis period within a short period of time in order to develop and work on targeted research questions on COVID-19. The data and digital tools of corpus and discourse linguistics provide various disciplines with ...

Writing is essential for societal participation. I will create a systematic overview of research on current digital writing tools & provide important insights into how writers use them, helping us to better understand their needs & identify important challenges for research into digital text production.

This project aims to highlight applied energy research from different departments in an immersive approach. The project "Immersive Stories of Energy Futures" (ISTEF) will enable decision-makers from energy policy and energy industry to engage with different development scenarios of energy futures and related communication challenges. An immersive ...

Internationalization is a key priority of UAS. Yet, efforts in the internationalization of curricula (IoC) are still modest due to manifold challenges. Applying the IoC paradigm to Swiss UAS, this project develops high-impact measures that provide effective incentives to institutions wishing to internationalize their curricula. Collaborating across ...