Helena Bilandzic#
| Membership Number: | 4395 |
| Membership type: | ORDINARY |
| Section: | FILM, MEDIA & VISUAL STUDIES |
| Elected: | 2016 |
| Main Country of Residence: | GERMANY |
| Homepage(s): | http://www.imwk.uni-augsburg.de |
Present and Previous Positions
- Since 9/2010 Full Professor for Communication Research/ Media Processes and Effects at the University of Augsburg
- 1/2010 – 8/2010 Full Professor for Media and Communication Research at the Zeppelin University, Friedrichshafen
- 9/2003 – 12/2009 Assistant Professor at the University of Erfurt
- 4/2007 Visiting Scholar at the Annenberg School for Communication der University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia
- 10/2005 - 3/2006 Guest professor at the Technical University of Ilmenau
- 4/2005 – 9/2005 Visiting Scholar at the Washington State University, Pullman
- 4/2003 – 9/2003 Guest professor at the University of the Arts in Berlin
- 2002 - 2003 Lecturer at the University of Erfurt
- 1997 - 2002 Lecturer and Ph.D. candidate at the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich
Fields of Scholarship
- Methods and Methodology: quantitative and qualitative data collection and analysis; ex-perimental designs, multimethod designs
- Media Processes and Effects: narrative experience and persuasion, cultivation, media use, environmental and health communication
Honours and Awards
- Two major European research grants:
- Marie Curie Actions-IRSES: „Narratives in health communication – a multi-disciplinary approach to strengthen understanding of the roles and uses of narratives in conveying health information and changing health behaviors” (2014-2017) (Lead researcher: Enny Das)
- COST-Action: Transforming Audiences, Transforming Societies (grant no. IS0906, 2010-2014) (Major COST Action with members from 27 European countries. (Lead researcher: Geoffroy Patriarche)
- Four national grants from the German Research Foundation:
- Narrative as a mode of evidence in public discourse about genetic research (grant no. BI 838/9, 2017-2021) (Lead researchers: Susanne Kinnebrock and Helena Bilandzic)
- Television stories and social reality: Moral effects and the role of emotional processes (grant no. BI 838/8-II, 2013-2016) (Lead researcher: Helena Bilandzic)
- Television stories and social reality: Narrative specific effects, their mechanisms and the role of experiences (grant no. BI 838/8-I, 2009-2012) (Lead researcher: Helena Bilandzic)
- The effects of fictional television messages: Narrative realism and transportation in the cultivation process (grant no. BI 838/3-I, 2005) (Lead researcher: Helena Bilandzic)
- Board member of the evaluation panel for social sciences in the German Research Foundation in 2012 and re-elected in 2016
