Lena Lehrer

lena.lehrer@uni-erfurt.de

PhD student (Faculty of Philosophy)

Visiting address

Campus
Faculty of Philosophy
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen"
Max-Weber-Allee 3
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Faculty of Philosophy
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Associated researcher in the Health Communication working group at Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine (BNITM) (Extern)

Office hours

Monday, 4-5 p.m. with advance notification (by e-mail), during the semester break by appointment

Visiting address

"Bernhard-Nocht-Institut für Tropenmedizin
Bernhard-Nocht-Straße 74
D-20359 Hamburg"

Lehrbeauftragte (Seminar für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft)

Contact

C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen" / C19.01.24

Office hours

Im Semester:
Montag 16-17 Uhr
nach Voranmeldung (per E-Mail)

In den Semesterferien:
nach Vereinbarung

Visiting address

Campus
Seminar für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen"
Max-Weber-Allee 3
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Seminar für Medien- und Kommunikationswissenschaft
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Member (Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB))

Contact

C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen" / C19.01.24

Visiting address

Campus
Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB)
C19 – research building "Weltbeziehungen"
Max-Weber-Allee 3
99089 Erfurt

Mailing address

Universität Erfurt
Institute for Planetary Health Behaviour (IPB)
Postfach 90 02 21
99105 Erfurt

Background

Lena Lehrer is a doctoral student in health communication with special interests in the processes and challenges of climate change communcation. She received her M. A. in 2022 (Thesis: Effects of framing in climate change communication within climate protection hesitant groups) from the University of Erfurt after finishing her B. Sc. in media communication in 2019 in Würzburg (Thesis: The Effect of immersive media on the willingness to animal protection). Her dissertation project revolves around factors influencing the willingness of climate protection on societal, political, and individual levels.

In 2022 Lena Lehrer joined Cornelia Betsch's Health Communication Working Group at the Bernhard-Nocht-Institute for Tropical Medicine in Hamburg.

 

Curriculum Vitae

Academic career     

  • 2022 – present     Doctoral student in Health Communication, University of Erfurt
  • 2019 – 2022          Master of Arts in Health Communication, University of Erfurt
  • 2015 – 2019          Bachelor of Science in Media Communication, University of Würzburg

Employment

  • 2022 – present     Bernhard Nocht Institute for Tropical Medicine Hamburg, Research Associate (65%) in the Health Communication working group
  • 2019 – 2021          University of Erfurt, Research Assistant in the department of Health Communication

Publications

  • Lehrer, L., Geiger, M., Sprengholz, P., Jenny, M. A., Temme, H. L., Shamsrizi, P., Eitze, S., & Betsch, C. (2024, February 15). Study protocol of the Planetary Health Action Survey PACE – A serial cross-sectional survey to assess the general population’s readiness to act against the climate crisis in Germany (Version 1) [Preprint]. Research Square. https://doi.org/10.21203/rs.3.rs-3953077/v1
  • Lehrer, L., Hellmann, L., & Betsch, C. (2024, May 28). Segmenting the German public for targeted communication about climate change and health with different indicators of the readiness to act against climate change [Preprint]. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/f6j8u
  • Lehrer, L., Hellmann, L., Temme, H., Otten, L., Hübenthal, J., Geiger, M., Jenny, M. A., & Betsch, C. (2023). Communicating climate change and health to specific target groups. Journal of health monitoring, 8(Suppl 6), 36–56. https://doi.org/10.25646/11773
  • Jenny, M. A., Lehrer, L., Eitze, S., Sprengholz, P., Korn, L., Shamsrizi, P., Geiger, M., Hellmann, L., Mai, L., Maur, K., & Betsch, C. (2022). Accelerating climate protection by behavioural insights: The Planetary Health Action Survey (PACE). The Lancet Planetary Health, 6, 19. https://doi.org/10.1016/S2542-5196(22)00281-9 [Published Abstract of a Poster presented at the Planetary Health Annual Meeting]