Governance, Citizenship and Participation
Research on governance, citizenship and participation has been a strength of our department for more than two decades, and covers a broad range of topics from explicit to more implicit forms of governance, diverse forms of science communication, and performing and studying public engagement exercises on emerging topics. Here we ask what it means to be a citizen in contemporary self-experimenting technoscientific societies. In particular, datafication and digitalization are opening up new challenges for our work, and offering fascinating opportunities to compare current discussions with those a decade ago. But citizenship and governance is also a concept family that can be explored in different domains, such as when open science is interrogated for its performance of new forms of scientific citizenship, or when the financial governance of universities is the object of attention.
People
| Sarah Davies | Ulrike Felt | Max Fochler |
| Ingrid Metzler | Fredy Mora-Gámez | |
| Andrea Schikowitz | Pouya Sepehr | Nina Klimburg-Witjes |
Projects
- Biobanking and BioMolecular Resources Research Infrastructure Austria #2 (BBMRI.at#2) — Societal Engagement: Responsible Research and Innovation in Biobanking;
- FutureArctic: A glimpse into the Arctic future: equipping a unique natural experiment for next-generation ecosystem research;
- K.REX: Knowledge Recognition for Evidence eXtraction;
- Making Europe through and for its research infrastructures (METAFORIS);
- Smart4Health: Citizen-centred EU-EHR exchange for personalised health;
- The Politics of Openness: Open Data Practices in Computational Social Sciences;
- Valuing, Being, Knowing. Understanding the entanglements of valuation practices and subjectification processes in life science research.