Lena Lehrer

lena.lehrer@uni-erfurt.de

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 and works on the Planetary Health Action Survey (PACE) project.

 

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

  • Tiede, K. E., Temme, H., Lehrer, L., & Betsch, C. (2025). Enhancing perceived effectiveness of climate policy to boost public acceptance. PsyArXiv. https://doi.org/10.31234/osf.io/m8a5u_v1
  • Lehrer, L., Hellmann, L., & Betsch, C. (2025). Understanding sociodemographic differences in climate behavior, climate policy acceptance, and political participation. The Journal of Climate Change and Health, 21, 100353. https://doi.org/10.1016/j.joclim.2024.100353
  • Lehrer, L., Geiger, M., Sprengholz, P., Jenny, M., Temme, H. L., Shamsrizi, P., ... & Betsch, C. (2024). Study protocol of the planetary health action survey PACE: a serial cross-sectional survey to assess the readiness to act against climate change. BMJ open, 14(11), e091093. doi: 10.1136/bmjopen-2024-091093
  • 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
  • Lehrer L., Hellmann L, Temme H, Otten L, Hübenthal J et al. (2023) Kommunikation zu Klimawandel und Gesundheit für spezifische Zielgruppen. Journal of health monitoring, 8(Suppl 6), 39–60. https://doi.org/10.25646/11770
  • 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]

  • Lehrer, L. (2020). "Gesund durch Bewegung" versus "Schön durch Sport": Appearance-Framing von Gesundheitsbotschaften in der Bewegungsförderung. In D. Reifegerste, & C. Sammer (Hrsg.), Gesundheitskommunikation und Geschichte: interdisziplinäre Perspektiven (S. 1-17). Stuttgart: Deutsche Gesellschaft für Publizistik- und Kommunikationswissenschaft e.V. https://doi.org/10.21241/ssoar.70277