Department of Science and Technology Studies

Science, technology and innovation shape life in modern societies in countless ways. Some of these are perceived as positive, others are deeply controversial. In turn, policy, corporations, the media and other societal actors influence how knowledge and technologies are produced. Science and technology studies analyzes these interactions, and aims to foster critical and reflexive debates on the relations of science, technology and society.

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'Making Europe through infrastructures of (in)security'

The Interdisciplinary Workshop is inspired by the need to investigate how infrastructures of...

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Job Announcements: Researcher

The Department of Science and Technology Studies seeks to employ 2 pre-doctoral and/or 2 post-doctoral researchers.

 New Publications

Pham B-C, Davies S. Policy as infrastructure: Enacting artificial intelligence and making Europe. In Klimburg-Witjes N, Trauttmansdorff P, editors, Technopolitics and the Making of Europe: Infrastructures of Security. Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2023. p. 125–140 Epub 2023.

Felt U, Öchsner S, Rae R, Osipova E. Doing co-creation: power and critique in the development of a European health data infrastructure. Journal of Responsible Innovation. 2023 Aug 8;10(1):2235931. doi: 10.1080/23299460.2023.2235931

Tzortzatou-Nanopoulou O, Akyüz K, Goisauf M, Kozera Ł, Mežinska S, Th Mayrhofer M et al. Ethical, legal, and social implications in research biobanking: A checklist for navigating complexity. Developing World Bioethics. 2023 Jul 10;1-12. Epub 2023 Jul 10. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12411