Lena Marie Henkes
Lena Marie Henkes is a researcher in the research focus New Technologies and the Future of Law, working on the project Safe in data traffic: Everyday illustration of fundamental rights at risk (SiD). The project investigates how citizens can be provided with clear information about the risks associated with the use of their personal data by advertisers and equipped with effective means of intervention.
Prior to that, Lena Marie Henkes worked within the research focus Democratic Change and Knowledge and on the projects Organisational Resilience and Creativity: Exploring the Future of Educational Technology (ORC) and Capacities and Competencies in Dealing with Hate Speech and Hostility towards Science (KAPAZ). Previously, she led the BMFTR-funded research project Acquisition Logic as an Obstacle to Diamond Open Access (ELADOAH) and worked as deputy editor of the open access and peer-reviewed journal Internet Policy Review.
She holds a master’s degree in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin. Her master’s thesis focused on digital sovereignty in digital policy discourse in Germany. Beforehand she completed her Bachelor’s degree in Communication and Media Studies and Political Science at the University of Bremen.
Society & cultureTheorising digital societies
This research project examines the challenges that are currently arising from the process of digitalisation.
Politics & law · Science & educationAcquisition 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.
Science & education · Science engagementCapacities and competencies in dealing with hate speech and hostility towards science
The KAPAZ project develops strategies and practical tools to make the science system more resilient to hostility in public discourse.
Science & educationAction for Interactive Anti-Polarisation Learning Experiences for a Better Democracy
The ACTILPEX consortium provides students and other interested parties with the tools to understand mechanisms of polarisation and to counteract them.
Science & educationOrganisational Resilience and Creativity: Exploring the Future of Educational Technology
How can educational technology be creatively contribute to building resilient universities and equip them to cope with future change?
Politics & law · Science & educationSafe in data traffic: Everyday illustration of fundamental rights at risk
Das Projekt erarbeitet Strategien, um das Wissenschaftssystem widerstandsfähiger gegen Hassrede & Wissenschaftsfeindlichkeit zu machen.
Society & cultureShaping 21st Century AI – Controversies and Closure in Media, Policy, and Research
The project investigates the discourse and developments around AI’s “deep learning revolution” over the ten formative years.
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
Watolla, A., Kuper, F., Deacon, B., Henker, L., Aust, A. (2026). Resilience & Creativity Canvas, . Publication details
Watolla, A., Kuper, F., Deacon, B., Henker, L., Aust, A. (2026). Resilience and creativity in higher education. A short introduction to theory and practices for working with the Resilience & Creativity Canvas, . Publication details
Watolla, A., Kuper, F., Deacon, B., Henker, L., Aust, A. (2026). Strengthening resilience and creativity in higher education institutions. A workshop playbook to initiate a multileveled reflection process. HIIG Impact Publication Series. Publication details
Watolla, A., Kuper, F., Deacon, B., Henker, L., Aust, A. (2026). Navigating Crisis: The Learn-and-Do Kit to strengthen resilience through creativity within higher education institutions. Graphite Page.. Publication details
Sokolovska, N., Holscher Blackman, K., Henkes, L. M., & Kuper, F. (Eds.) (2026). Tackling hostility towards scientists. Five complementary educational resources to equip institutions and individual researchers with knowledge and skills. HIIG Impact Publication Series. Publication details
Henkes, L. M., Wrzesinsk, M., Dalkilic, E., Dwivedi, M., Finger, J., Noreik, S., Scherr, J., Schindler, C., & Stork, K. (2025). Diamond OA: BMBF-Projekte bringen faires und freies Open Access auf den Punkt. Open Access Network. Publication details
Henkes, L. M., & Holscher Blackman, K. (2025). Wissenschaftliches Publizieren neu denken. Blaupause für gemeinschaftliches und faires Diamond Open Access. HIIG Impact Publication Series. Publication details
Kuper, F. & Henkes, L. M. (2024). Debunking Science Myths: Preconceptions about science put to the test. Digital Society Blog. Publication details
Benz, M., Finger, J., Henkes, L. M., Stork, K. S., & Wrzesinski, M. (2024). Diamond Open Access organisieren und finanzieren: Wie kann das gemeinschaftlich gelingen? ZBW Mediatalk. Publication details
Lectures and presentations (5)
Diamond Open Access in Deutschland: Von rechtlichen Fragen zu gemeinschaftlicher Gestaltung
Open Access als Gemeinschaftsprojekt denken – Ein Impuls aus dem Forschungsprojekt ELADOAH
Open Access gemeinsam gemacht – Ein Bericht aus dem Forschungsprojekt ELADOAH
Gemeinsam, frei & fair – Modelle des gemeinwirtschaftlichen Open-Access-Publizierens
Sprechstunde zum Thema „ELADOAH Forschungsbericht zu gemeinschaftlichen Publikationsmodellen“ bei der Sprechstunde der Landesinitiative openaccess.nrw
Moderation of workshops and panels (5)
Ausstellung: Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025
Diamond Open Access als Gemeinschaftsprojekt denken – ein Blueprint aus dem ELADOAH-Projekt
Diamond Open Access Workshop Day
Workshop Open Access Tage 2024
Shifting AI Controversies
Organisation of events (29)
Aus Krisen lernen: Zukunftsimpulse Hochschule
Digitaler Salon: Paywall oder Payback
Abschlussveranstaltung: Diamond Open Access gemeinsam gestalten
Lange Nacht der Wissenschaften 2025
Multi-Stakeholder-Workshop
Multi-Stakeholder-Workshop
Diamond Open Access erfolgreich organisieren und gestalten
Diamond Open Access Blitzlicht
Gemeinsam finanzieren, gemeinsam profitieren: Diamond Open Access nachhaltig gestalten
Kim Scheppele: Surveillance & democratic backsliding
Carola Westermeier: Geld als digitale Technologie
Rob Kitchin: Navigating smart cities
Acadmic Workshop Villa Vigoni – Theorising Digital Societies
Shifting AI Controversies – Prompts, Provocations & Problematisations for Society-Centered AI
Not my Existential Risk! The politics of controversy in an age of AI
Daniel Miller: The global evolution of smart technologies
Shifting AI Controversies
Lorenz Hilty & James Maguire: Digitising the environmental paradigm
Gina Neff: Making AI work for us
Infrastrukturen der Autonomie I Konferenz
Infrastructures of Autonomy: An International Conference in Berlin
Stefania Milan: Widerstand in der datengesteuerten Gesellschaft
David Betz: Kriegsführung im digitalen Zeitalter
“AI & the Human – Cross-Cultural Perspectives on Science and Fiction”
Making sense of the digital Society: Kanta Dihal – How the world sees intelligent machines
Kanta Dihal: Wie die Welt intelligente Maschinen wahrnimmt
Making sense of the digital Society: Krisztina Rozgonyi & Marius Dragomir – Freedom of expression in Central and Eastern Europe
Krisztina Rozgonyi und Marius Dragomir: Meinungsfreiheit in Zentral- und Osteuropa
Making sense of the digital society: Tilman Santarius – Die Digitalisierung für das Klima nutzen
Participation as expert (1)
Diamond-Open-Access-Modell: Blaupause für ein nachhaltiges Publikationskollektiv.
Position
Researcher: New Technologies and Future of Law
Contact
Democratic Change and Knowledge
