Katherina Holscher Blackman

Katherina Holscher Blackman has been part of the Knowledge and Society research program since December 2023. She is involved in the ELADOAH project, which aims to establish a living open access culture in German research and academic practice.

Katherina studied for a Master’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology at the Freie Universität Berlin. Her focus are environmental anthropology and psychological anthropology. In her Master’s thesis, she deals with the value of multisensory environmental education for school children.

She completed her Bachelor’s degree in Social and Cultural Anthropology and Religious Studies also at the Freie Universität Berlin. During this time, she completed an internship at the Spanish cultural institute Instituto Cervantes Berlin, where she managed social media channels and helped organize events.

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Current projects

Politics & law · Science & education
Acquisition logic as an obstacle to Diamond Open Access
The research project is investigating how Diamond Open Access publication model can be organised in Germany in the long term.

Completed projects

Publications

Working paper

Henkes, L. M., Wrzesinski, M., & Holscher Blackman, K. (2025). Open Access gemeinsam gemacht: Kollaborative Ansätze des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens. Zenodo. DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14800427 Publication details

Other publications

Henkes, L. M., Wrzesinski, M., Holscher Blackman, K. (2025). Interviewleitfaden zum ELADOAH-Bericht Open Access gemeinsam gemacht: Kollaborative Ansätze des wissenschaftlichen Publizierens, . Publication details

Activities

Lectures and presentations

Open Access als Gemeinschaftsprojekt denken – Ein Impuls aus dem Forschungsprojekt ELADOAH. Fokusgruppe Kostenkontrolle, Berlin, Germany: 17.06.2025 Further information

Lena Marie Henkes, Katherina Holscher Blackman

„ELADOAH Forschungsbericht zu gemeinschaftlichen Publikationsmodellen“
Sprechstunde der Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw. Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw. Online, Online, Germany: 25.07.2024 Further information

Lena Marie Henkes, Marcel Wrzesinski, Katherina Holscher Blackman

Moderation of workshops and panels

Diamond Open Access als Gemeinschaftsprojekt denken – ein Blueprint aus dem ELADOAH-Projekt. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany: 12.06.2025 Further information

Lena Marie Henkes, Marcel Wrzesinkski

Organisation of events

CO-CREATION WORKSHOP: Dealing with hostility in science communication. An international perspective
From 13.06.2025 to 13.06.2025. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany (International)

Katherina Holscher Blackman, Nataliia Sokolovska

Train-the-Trainer Programm (4)
From 06.05.2025 to 06.05.2025. Humboldt Institut für Internet und Gesellschaft, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Berlin School of Public Engagement (BSOPE) am Museum für Naturkunde in Berlin (MfN) und der Scicomm-Support (National) Further information

Anna Aust, Katherina Holscher Blackman, Nataliia Sokolovska

Diamond Open Access verankern: Netzwerke und Community-Pflege
From 15.01.2025 to 15.01.2025. Online, Berlin, Germany. Co-Organised by: Verfassungsblog (National) Further information