Research
Leaders and institutions in politics, business, public administration, and society are increasingly faced with new challenges and unanswered questions. To make informed decisions, they need help investigating and assessing a variety of positions and information. The field of STS offers research approaches and analytic tools that contribute to these processes.
STS engages questions such as: How has the status of scientific knowledge changed over the years? What is the difference between scientific facts and non-scientific facts? Who pays for science? How are research funds distributed among the various scientific disciplines? Who owns the results of international research projects? How are the social risks of research projects determined?
Publications
Hofmänner, A. 2021. "The Role of Science in the Swiss Policy Response to the COVID-19 Pandemic".
Swiss Academies Reports, 16 (11), November 2021.
Hofmänner, A., Macamo, E. 2021. "The Science Policy Script, Revised". Minerva, 59, pages 331–354.
Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere: A Postcolonial Programme.
Book publication, May 2020.
Schwabe, Berlin. Open Access.
Hofmänner, A. 2016. Science Studies Elsewhere: The Experimental Life and the Other Within, Social Epistemology, 30:2, 186-212, DOI: 10.1080/02691728.2014.986558
Hofmänner, A. 2011. The African Eve Effect in Science. Arch 7, 251–289. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11759-011-9160-1.
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New International Science & Technology Policy: Key Issues and Questions in Switzerland.
Exploratory Study for the
Swiss Science Council
June 2018.
Die Eidgenössische Energieforschungskommission (CORE):
Herausforderungen nach 2020.
Report for the Swiss Federal Office of Energy (SFOE), 2016.
