All good things are worth waiting for and getting published. My study conducted in 2017 has now been published in the Creativity Research Journal after a few rounds of peer review. The study validated the Rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA) on 880 drawings, paintings, and collages created by non-artists and non-professional artists. Spoiler: It works. Read more →
We are very pleased that we were able to win the Eckhard Busch Foundation as an additional supporter of our Pop-up Institute for 2022. The foundation supports our current science communication project on schizophrenia, which is funded by the Volkswagen Foundation. Read more →
Open ≠ equity. As a mentor in the Open Science Fellow Program and in collaboration with Wikimedia Germany, other mentors, and a fellow I created a learning unit on Knowledge Equity. It includes short video inputs on the Wikimedia Movement Strategy 2030, privilege and discrimination in research, inclusive education, social inequality in academia, and language diversity in research. Freely available as always. Read more →
Bam! My paper on RizbA and contemporary visual art is published. Funded by the Open Science Fellows Program by Wikimedia Germany, Stifterverband and Volkswagen Foundation, it’s fully Open Access and provides Open Data and Open Methodology. Go on and get it, read it and use the material for your own study. Read more →
Here comes the first pilot study on RizbA and children’s drawings! Sarah Ladegast has investigated whether different developmental stages of children’s drawing can be measured using my rating instrument for two-dimensional pictorial works (RizbA). Spoiler: They can. The study is freely available as Open Access with Open Data and Open Methodology. Read more →
Just in time for the end of my current third-party funding position at the HKS – University of Applied Sciences and Arts in Ottersberg, Raoul Pilcicki, Sara Schwienbacher and I just published our publication on new trans- and postdisciplinary in art and research. Among other positions, it includes my article on science as a critical stance: objectivity, feminist research and open science. The book is now digitally available as Open Access. Read more →
As equal opportunities officer at the HKS – University of applied sciences and arts in Ottersberg, I recently conducted an online survey on equality and diversity at our university. The questionnaire and related materials are now freely available as Open Methodology. Read more →
For a literature search, I have just compiled a dataset of 195 scientific articles from the last 15 years, that deal with Creative Arts Therapies and quality of life. The data set can be downloaded as Open Data. Read more →
My next print publication is out! In 2018 I held a workshop at the Sigmund Freud University Berlin at the congress Psychodynamics and creativity: Creative Arts Therapies in clinical fields of work. Now a conference proceedings has been published, in which you can also find my article. Read the preprint as Open Access. Read more →
For my fourth and last study within my PhD project, I am once again looking for German speaking participants, who have an academic degree related to visual arts or are studying in this field at least in their 3rd semester. As a thank you, you can win vouchers. Read more →
