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.

 New Publications

Metzler I. Human life between biology and law in Germany. In Prozorov S, Rentea S, editors, The Routledge Handbook of Biopolitics . London and New York: Routledge. 2016. p. 295-312
Felt U, Igelsböck J, Schikowitz A, Völker T. Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Practice: Between imaginaries of collective experimentation and entrenched academic value orders. Science, Technology & Human Values. 2016 Jul;41(4):732-761. doi: 10.1177/0162243915626989
Fochler M, Felt U, Müller R. Unsustainable growth, hyper-competition, and worth in life science research: Narrowing evaluative repertoires in doctoral and postdoctoral scientists’ work and lives. Minerva. 2016 May 26;54(2):175-200. doi: 10.1007/s11024-016-9292-y
Sigl L. On the Tacit Governance of Research by Uncertainty: How Early Stage Researchers Contribute to the Governance of Life Science Research. Science, Technology & Human Values. 2016 May;41(3):347-374. doi: 10.1177/0162243915599069
Fochler M. Beyond and between academia and business: How Austrian biotechnology researchers describe high-tech startup companies as spaces of knowledge production. Social Studies of Science. 2016 Apr 7;46(2):259-281. doi: 10.1177/0306312716629831
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