Univ.-Prof. Dr. Ulrike Felt
Professor of Science and Technology Studies
Head of the Department of Science and Technology Studies
Head of the research platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice
Member of the research platforms "Governance of Digital Practices" und "PLENTY - Plastics in the Environment and Society"
Consultation hour: by arrangement via eMail!
T: +43 1 4277 49611 (secr. -49601)
eMail: ulrike.felt@univie.ac.at
Biography
Ulrike Felt is Professor of Science and Technology Studies since 1999, and Head of the Departement of Science and Technology Studies and of the research platform Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice
After having finished her PhD in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna in 1983, she worked for nearly five years in an interdisciplinary research team of science historians at the European Center for High Energy Physics (CERN) in Geneva studying social, political and scientific aspects in the foundation period of this first big European research institution. During this period her research interests moved into the field of science and technology studies (STS). After her stay at CERN she returned to Vienna, where she took up a position at the newly founded Institute for Philosophy of Science and Social Studies of Science headed by Helga Nowotny. In 1997 she received her habilitation in Science Studies/Sociology of Sciences.
Ulrike Felt has wide experience in running nationally and internationally funded research projects working with a broad spectrum of social science research methods. She has been visiting professor in a number of institutions, among them at GERSULP/Université Louis Pasteur (Strasbourg), at the Centre Interuniversitaire pour la Recherche en Science et Technologie, Universite du Québec à Montréal, at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, at the Collegium Helveticum, ETH Zurich and at the STS group at Harvard. She has served as member of the council of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) from 1995 until 1999, and of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) from 2002 to 2004. From July 2002 to June 2007 she was editor of the international peer-reviewed Journal Science, Technology, & Human Values (Journal of the Society for Social Studies of Science). Most recently she has also engaged in setting up an interdisciplinary Masterprogramme "Science - Technology - Society" (taught in English language) at the University of Vienna.
Finally she engaged into policy advise both nationally and at the European level, e.g. as expert in the Advisory Group of the European Commission for the Science and Society priority of the 6th framework programme (2003-2006); as member of the European Research Advisory Board (EURAB; 2006/07); as rapporteur of the expert group Science and Governance (download the report as pdf) and most recently for the European Science Foundation (Science Policy Briefing: Science in Society - Caring for our Futures in Turbulent Times).
Since 1st September 2015 she is the Head of the interfaculty Research Platform "Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice" at the University of Vienna, which will run until 20th December 2021. Addidionally she's a member of the Research Platform "Plastic in Environment and Society".
Main Research Interests
Over the past decades several interrelated lines of research have developed:
- Participation and governance of science/technology in democratic societies; science communication;
- changes in the institutional, social and epistemological regimes of knowledge production
- on the role of time/temporal regimes and futures in research as well as for the interfaces of science/technology with society
- Values and evaluation in science; science policy; research integrity; ethical issues
- Socio-technical infrastructures and their importance for science and society
- Digitization and Big Data.
The fields I engaged with were rather diverse over time but had a strong focus on biomedicine and the life sciences, environment (enery, plastics, environmental data sciences) and physics (new materials, sensors, nanotechnology, ...).
Publications
Felt, U. (Interviewee), & Settele, H. (Editorial Journalist). (2021). Dok 1: Der gekaufte Titel. Television show, ORF I. tv.orf.at/highlights/orf1/210224_dok1_der_gekaufte_titel100.html
Felt, U. (Interviewee), & Forthuber, X. (Editorial Journalist). (2021). "Doktor Bratislava": Wie geht plagiatsfreies Forschen?. Radio show, ORF Ö1, Journal-Panorama. oe1.orf.at/programm/20210204/627427/Doktor-Bratislava-Wie-geht-plagiatsfreies-Forschen
Wieselberg, L. (Editorial Journalist), & Felt, U. (Interviewee). (2021). Die Potenz der Evidenz: Corona als Bewährungsprobe für die Wissenschaft. Radio show, oe1.ORF.at Dimensionen.
Wieselberg, L. (Editorial Journalist), & Felt, U. (Editorial Journalist). (2021). „Große Lektion, wie Wissenschaft funktioniert“. Web publication, science@orf.at. science.orf.at/stories/3204261/
Felt, U. (2021). The Temporal Fabric of Academic Lives: Of Weaving, Repairing, and Resisting. In F. Vostal (Ed.), Inquiring into Academic Timescapes (pp. 265-278). Emerald Publishing.
Felt, U. (Interviewee), & Müller, V. (Author). (2020). Keine unschuldige Kategorie - Zeit in Wissenschaft und Forschung. Web publication, Wissenschaftsmanagement Online. www.wissenschaftsmanagement-online.de/beitrag/keine-unschuldige-kategorie-zeit-wissenschaft-und-forschung-11762
Felt, U., & Müller, V. (2020). Keine unschuldige Kategorie – Zeit in Wissenschaft und Forschung: Woher der Zeitdruck in der Forschung kommt. Forschung und Lehre: Alles was die Wissenschaft bewegt, 27(12). ucris.univie.ac.at/admin/workspace/editor/family/researchoutput/
Felt, U. (Interviewee), & Nagiller, J. (Editorial Journalist). (2020). Wenn die "zweite Welle" rollt: Über Metaphern in der Wissenschaft. Radio show, oe1.ORF.at Dimensionen.
Felt, U. (Interviewee), & Nebenführ, C. (Editorial Journalist). (2020). Radiokolleg – Die präventive Wende. Radio show, ORF Ö1.
Felt, U., Öchsner, S., & Rae, R. (2020). The Making of Digital Health: Between Visions and Realizations. In Digitaler Humanismus. Menschliche Werte in der virtuellen Welt (pp. 89-101). Waxmann Münster. University - Society - Industry: Beiträge zum lebensbegleitenden Lernen und Wissenstransfer Vol. 9
Hutsteiner, R. (Editorial Journalist), & Felt, U. (Interviewee). (2020). Grenzen der wissenschaftlichen Politikberatung. Radio show, ORF Ö1.
hutsteiner, R. (Editorial Journalist), & Felt, U. (Interviewee). (2020). „Mathematiker-Papier“, Online-Experimentieren: Austausch in der Wissenschaft trotz Distanz. Radio show, ORF Ö1.
Felt, U. (Interviewee), & Brühl, U. (Author). (2020). Corona-Studien: Warum man nicht nur Überschriften lesen sollte. Web publication, kurier.at.
Nowotny, M. (Editorial Journalist), & Felt, U. (Interviewee). (2020). Wissenschaft macht Politik? Chancen und Grenzen einer evidenzbasierten Politik.. Radio show, ORF Ö1. oe1.orf.at/programm/20200406/594705/Wissenschaft-macht-Politik
Felt, U. (2020). Public Health Communication: Anecdotal Evidence and Responsibility in Print Media Accounts of Obesity. In U. Felt, & S. Davies (Eds.), Exploring Science Communication. A Science and Technology Studies Approach (pp. 131-148). Sage Publications Ltd..
Penkler, M., Felder, K. F., & Felt, U. (2020). Challenging Diversity: Steering Effects of Buzzwords in Projectified Healthcare. Science, Technology & Human Values, 45(1), 138-163. doi.org/10.1177/0162243919841694
Felt, U., & Davies, S. R. (2020). Exploring Science Communication: A Science and Technology Studies Approach. Sage Publications Ltd.
Sigl, L., Felt, U., & Fochler, M. (2020). “I am Primarily Paid for Publishing ...” The Narrative Framing of Societal Responsibilities in Academic Life Science Research. Science and Engineering Ethics, 26, 1569–1593. doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00191-8
Felt, U., & Fochler, M. (2020). Wissenschaft. In Forschungs- und Anwendungsfelder der Soziologie (3 ed., pp. 308-322). Facultas Verlags- und Buchhandels AG.