Babbel Language Learning Podcasts

Last year I authored an article with two esteemed colleagues on the method we had developed for producing language learning podcasts at Babbel. We developed a range of techniques and approaches with a pilot season of a podcast for German-speaking English learners, called Auf Sprachreise, which we called ‘Accessible, Authentic Audio for Beginners’. Our goal …

Iceland and Digital Democracy

In the Spring of 2013 I travelled to Iceland with a group of fellow Studienkolleg zu Berlin scholars to Iceland to investigate case studies of digital democracy. We interviewed a series of governmental and civil society actors on their attempts to develop radical (or not so radical) transparency strategies to influence democracy in Iceland and …

Civil Society Organisations and Big Data

I wrote a short article for social science works, a think and do tank based in Potsdam, about how support for digitalisation and data literacy in civil society organisations should be structured- they need to be supported to integrate data into all facets of their work, more focus needs to be put on cooperation between …