Mag. Dr. Andrea Schikowitz
Biography
Andrea Schikowitz is a university assistant (post-doc) in the research group on Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies, Vienna University. She works on knowledge practices in urban planning and controversies.
Before that, she held a postdoc position at the Friedrich Schiedel-endowed Chair for Sociology of Science at the Munich Center for Technology in Society (MCTS) at the Technical University Munich (TUM), where she worked on urban transformation in living labs and collaborative housing.
In her previous pre-and postdoc engagements at the Institute for Organization Studies and the Research Institute for Urban Management and Governance at the Vienna University for Economics and Business (WU), she worked on public governance and public sector identities, and in the course of a scholarship she started engaging with urban planning and movements.
In 2017, Andrea defended her doctoral dissertation “Choreographies of Togetherness. Re-Ordering Collectivity and Individuality in Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Austria”, that was conducted in the frame of the research project “Transdisciplinarity as Culture and Practice” at the STS department at the University of Vienna.
Current Research Interests
The golden thread that goes through Andrea Schikowitz’ different research activities is the question what happens when heterogeneous ways of knowing encounter and how this is related to possibilities for change. She has investigated this question by analysing various settings – such as transdisciplinary sustainability research, public governance, urban living labs and collaborative housing. Her current focus is on knowledge practices in urban planning and controversies, and on the intersection of digital and material practices therein.
Knowledge practices and sense-making
Identity work, collectivity in epistemic cultures in science and beyond
controversies and alternativeness
Collaborative research, inter- and transdisciplinarity
Urban transformation and planning
Selected Publications
Schikowitz, A. (Autor*in), & Davies, S. (Autor*in). (2021). ’Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences’: A publication story. Webpublikation
Schikowitz, A. (2021). Being a ‘Good Researcher’ in Transdisciplinary Research: Choreographies of Identity Work Beyond Community. in Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences (S. 225-245). Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook Band 31 doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-61728-8_11
Schikowitz, A., & Maasen, S. (2021). Integrative Forschung. in T. Schmohl, & T. Phillip (Hrsg.), Handbuch transdisziplinäre Didaktik (S. 151-162). transkript. doi.org/10.14361/9783839455654
Schikowitz, A. (2020). Creating Relevant Knowledge in Transdisciplinary Research Projects - Coping With Inherent Tensions. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 7(2), 217-237. doi.org/10.1080/23299460.2019.1653154
Leixnering, S., Schikowitz, A., Meyer, R., & Hammerschmid, G. (2018). Multiple Shades of Grey: Opening the Black Box of Public Sector Executives’ Hybrid Role Identities. in H. Byrkjeflot, & F. Engelstad (Hrsg.), Bureaucracy and Society in Transition. Comparative Perspectives (Band 33, S. 157-176). Emerald Publishing. Comparative Social Research Band 33
Felt, U., Igelsböck, J., Schikowitz, A., & Völker, T. (2016). Transdisciplinary Sustainability Research in Practice: Between imaginaries of collective experimentation and entrenched academic value orders. Science, Technology & Human Values, 35(5), 404-418. doi.org/10.1177/0162243915626989
Leixnering, S., Schikowitz, A., & Meyer, R. (2016). Austria: Nothing is Different, but Everything‘s Changed. in G. Hammerschmid, S. Van de Walle, R. Andrews, & P. Bezes (Hrsg.), Public Administration Reforms in Europe: The View from the Top (S. 41-51). Edward Elgar.
Felt, U., Igelsböck, J., Schikowitz, A., & Völker, T. (2013). Growing Into What? The (Un-)disciplined Socialisation of Early Stage Researchers in Transdisciplinary Research. Higher Education: the international journal of higher education and educational planning, 65(4), 511-524. doi.org/10.1007/s10734-012-9560-1
Felt, U., Igelsböck, J., Schikowitz, A., & Völker, T. (2012). Challenging Participation in Sustainability Research. DEMESCI: International Journal of Deliberative Mechanisms in Science, 1(1), 4-34. doi.org/10.4471/demesci.2012.01
Felt, U., Igelsböck, J., Schikowitz, A., & Völker, T. (2011). The Problem Multiple - Constructing 'the Research Problem' in Transdisciplinary Project Contexts. in B. Hofstätter, & G. Getzinger (Hrsg.), Conference Proceeding '10th Annual IAS-STS Conference: Critical Issues in Science and Technology Studies' Institute for advanced studies on science, technology and society (ias-sts).
Felt, U., Igelsböck, J., Schikowitz, A., & Völker, T. (2010). Querdenken gefragt?! Interdisziplinarität an kontemporären europäischen Universitäten zwischen idealen und realen Rahmenbedingungen. Paradigmata. Zeitschrift für Menschen und Diskurse, 95-99.