eva m. reussner

My professional focus is now on research management and research funding. Since November 2011 I am head of the service unit “strategic collaboration” at Karlsruhe Institute of Technology’s Research Office. Since April 2009 I was an advisor for international research funding.

Before, I was a researcher and project coordinator in the third-party funded research project “Learning in the museum: The role of media” at the Knowledge Media Research Center in Tuebingen, Germany.

I have completed my PhD in Media and Communication Studies at the Freie Universität Berlin in the area of museum communication, with a dissertation on the subject “Opening Up Museums for their Audiences: Success Factors for Effective Audience Research”, in conjunction with the Institute for Museum Studies of the State Museums Berlin – Prussian Heritage, supported by a fellowship of the German National Academic Foundation (Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes).

After completing a M.A. in Applied Cultural Studies (University of Lüneburg) I lived in Melbourne, Australia for 16 months. During that time, I worked on several projects concerning audience research in museums, both at Melbourne Museum and Deakin University. On behalf of the Evaluation and Visitor Research Special Interest Group of Museums Australia, I carried out an Australia-wide study on the use and impact of audience research in cultural heritage institutions.