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.

 Defensiones

08.09.2025 10:15
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the PhD defensio of Laura Bomm

02.09.2025 14:00
 

Defensio

We warmly invite you to the Master defensio of Tilman Freiherr von Werthern

 STS Talks Vienna

23.10.2025 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk x FutureSpace Talk by Bleddyn Bowen

We are thrilled to announce Bleddyn Bowen's talk on October 23, 2025 04:00 PM

16.10.2025 16:00
 

Vienna STS Talk by Sally Wyatt

We are thrilled to announce Sally Wyatt's talk on October 16, 2025 04:00 PM

 



 New Publications

Felt U. Time and temporalities in academic research. In Felt U, Irwin A, editors, Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies. Edgar Elgar. 2024. p. 318-327

Verstappen S, Davies S. Ethnographic film as world-making: Connecting visual anthropology with Science and Technology Studies. Visual Anthropology Review. 2024 Oct 3;40(2):147-160. Epub 2024 Oct 3. doi: 10.1111/var.12338

Pham BC, 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. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2024. p. 125–140 Epub 2023.

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. 2024 Sept;24(3):139-150. Epub 2023 Jul 10. doi: 10.1111/dewb.12411

Schikowitz A, Davies S. Housing activists' science communication: online practices as contextual and reflexive. JCOM. 2024 Jun 17;23(5):A01. doi: 10.22323/2.23050201