Dr. Cornelia Driesen

Vita

Since December 2020, Cornelia Driesen has been a university lecturer with a focus on public relations and corporate communications with special attention to social media, as well as a postdoctoral researcher at the Center for Media, Communication and Information Research (ZeMKI).

The focus of her work is primarily on media practice with practical media seminars such as Media Practice Week. She is also dedicated to university and science communication research. As a member of the board of the Society for University Research, she represents young university researchers (HofoNa). She works as a reviewer for “FQS – Forum Qualitative Social Research” and “Communications: The European Journal of Communication Research”.

In 2020, Cornelia Driesen, as an external doctoral candidate at the Technical University of Berlin, defended her cumulative dissertation on the topic “The organization of the school-university transition of German universities. An empirical study of the perspective of university management”. She completed her studies from 2000 to 2005 at the Rheinisch Westfälische Technische Hochschule Aachen from 2000 to 2005, which she completed with a master’s thesis on the topic “The truth dies first – reporting in the Second Gulf War with special attention to the television channel CNN”.

From 2008 to 2020 she was press spokesperson and head of the marketing and public relations department at Bremerhaven University of Applied Sciences. In 2019, she received the Federal Association of University Communication Prize for her exemplary volunteer training in university communication. From 2005 to 2007, Cornelia Driesen herself was a volunteer in the press and public relations department at the Aachen University of Applied Sciences. She previously worked as a freelance journalist from 1996 to 2008 for the Westdeutsche Zeitung and the Aachener Zeitung, among others. She also completed internships, among others, in the news/sports editorial department of the NDR State Broadcasting Center Mecklenburg-Western Pomerania, in the press office of the North Rhine-Westphalia state parliament and the radio editorial department of Welle Niederrhein.

Research priorities

• university research,
• organizational research,
• science communication,
• Public relations and organizational communication,
• Advertising communication and marketing
• Social media

Memberships

• Member of the Society for University Research (board member)
• Member of the Society for Educational Sciences
• Member of the Federal Association of University Communication
• Member of the Federal Association of Communicators

Most recent publications (Source: ORCID)

• Meitz, Tino/Borchers, Nils/Naderer, Brigitte (Hrsg.): Schlüsselwerke der Werbeforschung.. Wiesbaden: Springer VS 2022. 389 Seiten. Preis: € 34,99.. Publizistik
  http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s11616-024-00838-7
• Cornelia Driesen (2020). Die Organisation des Übergangs Schule-Hochschule deutscher Hochschulen. Eine empirische Untersuchung zur Perspektive von Hochschulleitungen. 306 Seiten. Munster. Waxmann
  https://d-nb.info/1213479312
• Philipp Pohlenz, Maria Kondratjuk, Dominik Frisch, Judit Anacker, Sarah Berndt, Annika Felix, Mandy Schulze, Petra Suwalski, Cindy Konen, Peer Pasternack, Cornelia Driesen, Angela Ittel, Anja Franz, Rosa Mazzola, Martina Hasseler, Claudia Wendt (2019). Die Organisation von Hochschulen in Theorie und Praxis. Forschungen zur Reform des Wissenschaftsbetriebes. 173 Seiten. Opladen. Verlag Barbara Budrich
  https://d-nb.info/1175125180
• Cornelia Driesen, Angela Ittel (2019). Der Übergang in die Hochschule. Strategien, Organisationsstrukturen und Best Practices an deutschen Hochschulen. 229 Seiten. Munster. Waxmann
  https://d-nb.info/1173556761
• Cornelia Driesen (2019). Category Positioning - A Qualitative Content Analysis Approach to Explore the Subjective Importance of a Research Topic Using the Example of the Transition From School to University. Online-Ressource. Mannheim. SSOAR - Social Science Open Access Repository
  https://d-nb.info/121671181X
• Cornelia Driesen (2018). Strategien für den Übergang Schule-Hochschule an Hochschulen. Eine empirische Studie zur Sicht deutscher Hochschulleitungen. Online-Ressource. Wittenberg. HoF Wittenberg, Institut fur Hochschulforschung an der Martin-Luther-Universitat Halle-Wittenberg
  https://d-nb.info/1203352247
• Cornelia Driesen (2018). Strategieansätze für den Übergang Schule-Hochschule. Online-Ressource. Speyer. Deutsche Universitat fur Verwaltungswissenschaften
  https://d-nb.info/115990197X
• Cornelia Driesen, Angela Ittel (2018). Der Übergang in die Hochschule. Strategien, Organisationsstrukturen und Best Practices an deutschen Hochschulen. Online-Ressource, 230 Seiten. Munster. Waxmann Verlag GmbH
  https://d-nb.info/1175047562
• Cornelia Driesen (2008). "Die Wahrheit stirbt zuerst". Die Berichterstattung im Zweiten Golfkrieg unter besonderer Berücksichtigung des Fernsehsenders CNN. 101, XLIV S.. Saarbrucken. VDM Verlag Dr Muller
  https://d-nb.info/987727052

https://orcid.org/0000-0001-6908-0334