Hedwig te Molder is a full professor at the Ä¢¹½ÊÓƵ where she heads the Language and Communication Group. She studies how people communicate issues of science and technology in their everyday lives, using Discursive Psychology and Conversation Analysis. She has a special focus on the changing role of experts and expertise in an alleged 'post-truth' society. More generally, she looks at how people manage their knowledge rights and knowledge responsibilities, and the hidden moralities in doing so. Domains of application range from nutrition, vaccination, corona-communication, and ADHD to gene editing and climate change. In these controversial areas, her applied and theoretical interest lies in how to make the shift from debate to dialogue.
Hedwig published more than 100 scientific articles and book chapters. She is currently supervising 9 PhDs. Recently completed PhD projects are by Lotte van Burgsteden (with distinction/cum laude) and by Robert Prettner.
With , and in collaboration with the RIVM, she supervises . With , , , and colleagues from Amsterdam UMC, AVL Hospital, and the University of Twente, Hedwig is supervising the NWO-KWF Dutch Cancer Society project .
In 2007, Hedwig received the Distinguished Book Award from the American Sociological Association for (Cambridge University Press, with Jonathan Potter). In 2009, she was a Visiting Scholar at the University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB), and in 2015 a Visiting Professor at the University of Vienna. In 2017, she was a senior Fulbright Scholar at Rutgers University, School of Communication and Information, USA.Ìý
She chairs the social-ethical committee of the , the scientific advisory board for the Dutch government on genetic modification, and is a member of the Executive Board.
Together with Noëlle Aarts (Radboud University), she founded the Centre for Dialogue.Ìý
Hedwig coordinates the international master track Dialogue, Health and Society, together with Bogdana Huma.Ìý
She frequently features in and is a well-known speaker.Ìý
On September 29, 2021, Hedwig gave her inaugural speech at the VU (in Dutch):Â "Dialogue against the tide. Beyond value shyness"/. Â
