Publications and outputs

Publications

• Krockow, E. M., Jones, M., Tarrant, C., Mendelson, M., and Flusberg, S. J. (under review). Risk Communication about Antimicrobial Resistance: A Content Analysis of Metaphor Use in Global Public Discourse.
• Krockow, E. M., Cheng, K. O., Maltby, J., and McElroy, E. (2023). Existing terminology related to antimicrobial resistance fails to evoke risk perceptions and be remembered. Communications Medicine, 3(1), 149.
• Krockow, E. M. (2020). Nomen est omen: Why we need to re-name “Antimicrobial Resistance”. JAC-Antimicrobial Resistance, 2(3).
• Mendelson, M., Balasegaram, M., Jinks, T. et al. (2017). Antibiotic resistance has a language problem. Nature, 545, 23–25.

Non-academic outputs

Rational egoist podcast

Project lead Eva Krockow was invited to discuss the power of metaphors in the popular podcast by Michael Liebowitz. Catch up on the 30-minute interview.

AMR Studio podcast

Project lead Eva Krockow was invited to discuss her social science work on risk communication about antibiotic resistance in a podcast dedicated to multidisciplinary research on antimicrobial resistance, hosted by the Uppsala Antibiotic Center. Listen to the full episode of the podcast.

Blog post on the power of metaphors

Eva Krockow wrote a blog post for the Psychology magazine ‘Psychology Today’. In her article, she discusses the surprising effects of metaphors in shaping thinking and behaviour. Read the full article.