I am co-leading the Science Barometer Switzerland – the “Wissenschaftsbarometer Schweiz” – together with Prof. Dr. Mike S. Schäfer (University of Zurich, Switzerland) and Prof. Dr. Julia Metag (University of Münster, Germany).
The Science Barometer is a long-term survey project running since 2016, currently funded until 2031. The project investigates how people in Switzerland perceive and communicate about science, scientists, and science-related topics, such as Artificial Intelligence. Every 1-3 years, we conduct nationally representative online and telephone surveys in all three major languages of Switzerland (German, French, Italian), using cross-sectional and panel samples of Swiss residents aged 15+ years. For example, my colleagues and I have identified different audiences of science communication in Switzerland and tested how they change over time, assessed populist attitudes to science, developed a new survey scale to measure science literacy, and analyzed users of alternative science media. See below for my publications resulting from this project.
The Science Barometer is a long-term survey project running since 2016, currently funded until 2031. The project investigates how people in Switzerland perceive and communicate about science, scientists, and science-related topics, such as Artificial Intelligence. Every 1-3 years, we conduct nationally representative online and telephone surveys in all three major languages of Switzerland (German, French, Italian), using cross-sectional and panel samples of Swiss residents aged 15+ years. For example, my colleagues and I have identified different audiences of science communication in Switzerland and tested how they change over time, assessed populist attitudes to science, developed a new survey scale to measure science literacy, and analyzed users of alternative science media. See below for my publications resulting from this project.
Publications
Niels G. Mede, Emily L. Howell, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag, Becca Beets, Dominique Brossard
Science Communication, 2025
Literate and critical? Characterizing users of alternative scientific media
Lena Zils, Florian Wintterlin, Julia Metag, Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer
Science Communication, 2025
Niels G. Mede
International Journal of Comparative Sociology, 2023
Cognitio populi – Vox populi: Implications of science-related populism for communication behavior
Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag
Communications, 2023
Kira Klinger, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin, Niels G. Mede
Public Understanding of Science, vol. 31, 2022, pp. 553-562
Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer
Public Understanding of Science, vol. 31, 2022, pp. 211-222
Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Julia Metag, Kira Klinger
PLoS one, 2022
Florian Wintterlin, Friederike Hendriks, Niels G. Mede, Rainer Bromme, Julia Metag, Mike S. Schäfer
Frontiers in Communication, 2022
Niels G. Mede, Mike S. Schäfer, Tobias Füchslin
International Journal of Public Opinion Research, vol. 33, 2021, pp. 273-293