Dr. Maike Braun

Research Associate

Maike Braun joined our team in April 2022. She works on Diversity-X, a project on gender and national diversity in communication. Her research generally focuses on issues of diversity and social inequality; who gets to communicate and whom communication is about. Her research projects specifically concern the framing of inequality, diversity within the academic community, and the reclamation of slurs by minorities.

Following her Bachelor’s degree at the FernUniversität in Hagen and her Master’s in psychology with a focus on the psychology of communication at the University of Koblenz-Landau, she received her PhD on the framing of social inequality from the Friedrich-Alexander-Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg in 2024.

 

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Publications

Braun, M., Trepte, S. , Heintz, L., & Scharkow, M. (2024, September 16-19). Diversity-X: A simple tool to increase citation diversity [Tool demonstration]. Joint 53rd DGPs Conference and 15th ÖGP Conference, Vienna, Austria

Braun, M., Heintz, L., Jansen, A., Scharkow, M., & Trepte, S. (2024, June 12-14). Diversity-X: A research program to assess and address gender diversity in communication science [Poster Presentation]. Gender Diversity Across Europe Devising Solutions from Interdisciplinary & Intersectoral Perspectives, Bern, Switzerland

Klysing, A., Braun, M., Buscicchio, G., Jacobs, C., Formanowicz, M., & Fasoli, F. (2024). The use and perception of reclaimed group labels for lesbian women and gay men. Journal of Language and Social Psychology, 0261927X241234047. https://doi.org/10.1177/0261927X241234047

Braun, M., Heintz, L., Kruschinski, S., Trepte, S., & Scharkow, M. (2023). Gender diversity at academic conferences—The case of the International Communication Association. Journal of Communication, 73(6), 601–615. https://doi.org/10.1093/joc/jqad032

Braun, M., Martiny, S., & Bruckmüller, S. (2023). From serial reproduction to serial communication: Transmission of the focus of comparison in lay communication about gender inequality. Human Communication Research, 49(1), 35–46. https://doi.org/10.1093/hcr/hqac024