Simone Rödder

Simone Rödder is a professor of sociology, especially Science Communication, at the University of Hamburg and a Principal Investigator in the DFG-funded Cluster of Excellence Climate, Climatic Change, and Society (CLICCS). She holds an interdisciplinary PhD from the University of Bielefeld’s Institute for Science & Technology Studies, supervised by Peter Weingart. Her current research focuses on climate futures, climate movements and the medialization and politicization of expertise. She recently co-authored “They never appear on TV and if they have, I might have missed that moment.” How publics in South Africa and Germany view visible scientists (PLOS ONE, 2025), “The dramaturgical infrastructure of counter-summitry – ethnographic insights from the Glasgow climate conference” (Social Movement Studies, 2024), ”Collaborative Ethnography of Global Environmental Governance: Concepts, Methods and Practices” (Cambridge Elements, 2024), “Academic Air Travel: Debates, Tensions and the Need for a Sociology of Science Perspective” (Sociology Compass, 2024), “Social Constructions of Climate Futures: Reframing Science’s Harmful Impact Frame Across News Media, Social Movements, and Local Communities” (Environmental Communication, 2024), “World organisations, world events and world objects: how science, politics, and the mass media co-produce climate futures” (Globalizations, 2023) and ”’Unite behind the Science!’ Climate movements’ use of scientific evidence in narratives on socio-ecological futures” (Science and Public Policy, 2023).