Univ.-Prof. Sarah Davies, BSc MSc PhD
Biography
Sarah R. Davies is Professor of Technosciences, Materiality, & Digital Cultures at the Department of Science and Technology Studies. Her work explores how science and society are co-produced – how society defines the conditions of scientific research, and how science is present in wider society. The ‘red thread’ of the digital and digitisation runs throughout. She has written about hackers and hackerspaces, how scientists experience the conditions of contemporary academia, and science communication formats such as science festivals or museums.
Her PhD (2008) was carried out at Imperial College London. Since then her career has been highly international: she has worked in the UK, US, Denmark (as a Marie Curie International Incoming Fellow, before becoming associate professor) and Norway. She has published a number of books, including Hackerspaces (2017, Polity), Science Communication (2016, Palgrave, with Maja Horst), and Exploring Science Communication (2020, SAGE, with Ulrike Felt). She is a co-founder of the Science in Public conference series, sits on the scientific committee of the International Network for the Public Communication of Science and Technology, and has given more than 20 invited keynote talks and public lectures across Denmark, Switzerland, New Zealand, Austria, the US, UK, Germany, and France since 2014.
Current Research Interests
Davies’ current work includes involvement in the European project QUEST and in the project ‘Understanding gender imbalances among university professors: the shaping and reshaping of epistemic living spaces’ (GENDIM), coordinated by the Norwegian University of Science and Technology. More generally she works on:
- Critical studies of science communication, public engagement with science (including activism and protest), and amateur science;
- Public interactions with digitised science and technology, including science on social media, subversion and negotiation of 'datafication', and data subjectivities;
- The contemporary conditions of academic work and knowledge production
- Digitisation within scientific knowledge production, including studies of data deluges, the co-production of digital technologies and academic work, and mundane use of digital tools.
Publications
Davies S. STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship: Science Communication. 2022 Mai;31(3):305-313.
Davies S. Science Communication at a Time of Crisis: Emergency, Democracy, and Persuasion. Sustainability. 2022 Apr;14(9):5103.
Verstappen S, Davies S. Investigating scientific practice with ethnographic film. in EASA Media Anthropology Network E-Seminars. Band 69. 2022
Schikowitz A (Autor*in), Davies S (Autor*in). ’Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences’: A publication story 2021.
Davies S. Atmospheres of science: Experiencing scientific mobility. Social Studies of Science. 2021 Apr 1;51(2):214-232. doi.org/10.1177/0306312720953520
Davies S. An Empirical and Conceptual Note on Science Communication’s Role in Society. Science Communication. 2021 Feb 1;43(1):116-133. doi.org/10.1177%2F1075547020971642
Davies S, Lindvig K. Assembling research integrity: negotiating a policy object in scientific governance. Critical Policy Studies. 2021. doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2021.1879660
Davies S. Chaos, Care, and Critique: Performing the Contemporary Academy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Communication. 2021;6. 657823. doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.657823
Davies S. Performing Science in Public: Science Communication and Scientific Identity. in Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences. 2021. S. 207-223. (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Band 31).
Davies S, Horst M. Science Communication as Culture: A Framework for Analysis. in Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology. London: Routledge. 2021. S. 182-197
Davies S, Franks S, Roche J, Schmidt AL, Wells R, Zollo F. The Landscape of European Science Communication. JCOM. 2021;20(3). A01.
Davies S. Book Review: Brigitte Nerlich, Sarah Hartley, Sujatha Raman and Alexander Smith (eds), Science and the Politics of Openness – Here Be Monsters. Public Understanding of Science. 2020;29(3):363-364. doi.org/10.1177/0963662519887309
Davies SR. Epistemic Living Spaces, International Mobility, and Local Variation in Scientific Practice. Minerva. 2020;58:97-114. doi.org/10.1007/s11024-019-09387-0
Felt U, Davies SR. Exploring Science Communication: A Science and Technology Studies Approach. London: Sage Publications Ltd., 2020. 264 S.
Tybjerg K, Whiteley L, Davies S. Object Biographies: The Life of a Hacked Gene Gun. in Felt U, Davies S, Hrsg., Exploring Science Communication. Sage Publications Ltd. 2020. S. 69-87
Davies S. University communications as auto-communication: the NTNU ‘Challenge Everything’ campaign. Journal of Communication Management. 2020;24(3):227-243. doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-08-2019-0120
Davies SR. An Ethics of the System: Talking to Scientists About Research Integrity. Science and Engineering Ethics. 2019;25(4):1235-1253. doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0064-y
Davies SR, Halpern M, Horst M, Kirby DA, Lewenstein B. Science stories as culture: experience, identity, narrative and emotion in public communication of science. JCOM. 2019;18(5). A01. doi.org/10.22323/2.18050201
Macnaghten P, Davies S, Kearnes MB. Understanding Public Responses to Emerging Technologies: A Narrative Approach. Journal of Environmental Policy and Planning. 2019;21(5):504-518. doi.org/10.1080/1523908X.2015.1053110
Davies SR. Interrogating Innovation: Silence, Citizenship, and the Figure of the Hacker. Cultural Politics. 2018;14(3):354-371. doi.org/10.1215/17432197-7093366