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?

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Publications

Science & Technology Studies Elsewhere: A Postcolonial Programme.

Book publication, March 2020.

Schwabe Verlag, Berlin.

The Science Policy Script, Revised.

Paper co-authored with Elisio Macamo.

Under review.

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.

Science Studies Elsewhere. The Experimental Life and the Other Within.

Social Epistemology. A Journal of Knowledge, Culture and Policy. Vol. 30, No. 2, pp. 186-212, 2016.

Knowledge for Transformation:

The New Swiss Energy Research Policy.

Final Report, August 2015.

The African Eve Effect in Science.

Archaeologies: Journal of the World Archaeological Congress. Vol. 7 No. 1., pp. 251-289, April 2011.

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