Univ.-Prof. Sarah Davies, BSc MSc PhD (sabbatical)

Universitätsprofessorin

eMail: sarah.davies@univie.ac.at

Biography

Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. Her work explores how science and society are co-produced – how society defines the conditions of scientific research, and how science is present in wider society. The ‘red thread’ of the digital and digitisation runs throughout. She has written about hackers and hackerspaces, how scientists experience the conditions of contemporary academia, and science communication formats such as science festivals or museums.

Her PhD (2008) was carried out at Imperial College London. Since then her career has been highly international: she has worked in the UK, US, Denmark (as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, before becoming associate professor) and Norway. She has published a number of books, including Hackerspaces (2017, Polity), Science Communication (2016, Palgrave, with Maja Horst), and Exploring Science Communication (2020, SAGE, with Ulrike Felt). She is a co-founder of the Science in Public conference series, sits on the scientific committee of the International Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology, and has given more than 20 invited keynote talks and public lectures across Denmark, Switzerland, New Zealand, Austria, the US, UK, Germany, and France since 2014.

Professor Davies' inaugural lecture was held on 7 December 2022. You can find the text and video at the following links' here: Video & Full text

Current Research Interests

Davies’ current work includes involvement in the European project QUEST and in the project ‘Understanding gender imbalances among university professors: the shaping and reshaping of epistemic living spaces’ (GENDIM), coordinated by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. More generally she works on:

  • Critical studies of science communication, public engagement with science (including activism and protest), and amateur science;
  • Public interactions with digitised science and technology, including science on social media, subversion and negotiation of 'datafication', and data subjectivities;
  • The contemporary conditions of academic work and knowledge production
  • Digitisation within scientific knowledge production, including studies of data deluges, the co-production of digital technologies and academic work, and mundane use of digital tools.

Publications

Davies S. Performing Science in Public: Science Communication and Scientific Identity. In Kastenhofer K, Molyneux-Hodgson S, editors, Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences. Cham: Springer. 2021. p. 207-223. (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Vol. 31).

Davies S, Horst M. Science Communication as Culture: A Framework for Analysis. In Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology. London: Routledge. 2021. p. 182-197

Davies S, Franks S, Roche J, Schmidt AL, Wells R, Zollo F. The Landscape of European Science Communication. JCOM. 2021;20(3):1-9. A01. doi: 10.22323/2.20030201

Davies SR. Epistemic Living Spaces, International Mobility, and Local Variation in Scientific Practice. Minerva. 2020 Mar;58(1):97-114. Epub 2019 Sep 21. doi: 10.1007/s11024-019-09387-0

Tybjerg K, Whiteley L, Davies S. Object Biographies: The Life of a Hacked Gene Gun. In Felt U, Davies S, editors, Exploring Science Communication. Sage Publications Ltd. 2020. p. 69-87

Davies SR. An Ethics of the System: Talking to Scientists About Research Integrity. Science and Engineering Ethics. 2019;25(4):1235-1253. Epub 2018 Sep 24. doi: 10.1007/s11948-018-0064-y

Davies SR, Halpern M, Horst M, Kirby DA, Lewenstein B. Science stories as culture: experience, identity, narrative and emotion in public communication of science. JCOM. 2019;18(5):A01. doi: 10.22323/2.18050201

Davies SR. Scientists’ Duty to Communicate: Exploring Ethics, Public Communication, and Scientific Practice. In Priest S, Goodwin J, Dahlstrom M, editors, Ethics and Practice in Science Communication. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. 2018. 9

Selin C, Rawlings KC, de Ridder-Vignone K, Sadowski J, Altamirano Allende C, Gano G et al. Experiments in engagement: Designing public engagement with science and technology for capacity building. Public Understanding of Science. 2017 Aug;26(6):634-649. doi: 10.1177/0963662515620970

Horst M, Davies SR, Irwin A. Reframing Science Communication. In Felt U, Fouché R, Miller CA, Smith-Doerr L, editors, The Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Cambridge: MIT Press. 2016

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