Heather Cameron

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Heather Cameron (* 1969 in London ) is a British social scientist. Since August 2016 she has been Michael B Kaufman Professor of Practice in Social Entrepreneurship and Innovation at the Brown School at Washington University in St. Louis. From 2008 to 2016 she was Junior Professor for Integration Education at the Free University of Berlin and Professor Extraordinarius at the University of the Western Cape , South Africa.

Life

Heather Cameron studied philosophy, political science and history in Toronto and Berlin and received her PhD in "Social and Political Thought" from York University , Canada in 2002 with a thesis on Michel Foucault, Sigmund Freud and self-destruction. Then she worked a. a. as a Fellow for the ZTG of the TU Berlin, the Science and Technology Program of the University College London and as a visiting professor at the School of Communications at the Canadian Simon Fraser University, Vancouver.

Cameron is also a founding member of the "Sport for Social Change Network" in Africa, since 2007 academic member of the supervisory board of the international foundation for women's sports "Women Win", since 2009 member of the project advisory board "Health and Exercise - More Migrants in Sport" of the German Olympic Sports Confederation and since 2010 advisory board member at Betterplace.org. In 2008 Heather Cameron was appointed junior professor for integration education at the Free University of Berlin. Since 2010 she has also been Professor Extraordinarius at the University of the Western Cape , South Africa.

In 2010, the German University Association named her “University Lecturer of the Year” because she “made an outstanding contribution to the public image of her profession” with her “professional and non-professional commitment”.

The focus of her academic work is the research and implementation of new forms of teaching as well as social innovation and political, societal and economic participation. Further fields are inclusive education , social entrepreneurship , gender studies , gender-based violence as well as sport and development or sport for social development . In this context, Cameron works as a consultant and has supported projects by UN Women and the German Society for International Cooperation (GIZ) , among others .

Cameron is the managing director of the non-profit GmbH Camp Group. This has received several awards, including the “Special Prize from the Federal Chancellor” at the startsocial competition by Federal Chancellor Angela Merkel . According to Cameron's theory that innovative teaching can only be implemented through the principle of creative participation, your students are actively involved in all processes of these urban research facilities for social change . The latest project of the Camp Group gGmbH is the international network of women and girls' organizations in the sport Girls in the Lead , which is funded by the Postkod Foundation . The aim of the network is to strengthen the exchange between the organizations and to support them in their organizational development.

Awards

Publications (selection)

  • Who determines when social entrepreneurs are successful? in Marianne Henkel, Jana Gebauer, Justus Lodemann, Franziska Mohaupt, Lena Partzsch, Eva Wascher, Rafael Ziegler (eds.): Social Entrepreneurship - Status Quo 2009: (Self) Image, Effect and Responsibility for the Future , Proceedings. Berlin HUB, June 16 and 17, 2009. Geozon Science Media, ISBN 978-3-941971-02-8 , doi : 10.3285 / g.00003 , pp. 111–126, PDF (1.69 MB)
  • Sport is good for you! Monitoring Sport for Social Change . In: International - Inclusive - Interdisciplinary. Perspectives of a contemporary sports science. Ed .: Heike Tiemann, Sigrun Schulz & Erika Schmidt-Gotz. Schorndorf 2007.
  • Tracking Buses and Passengers with Intelligent Transport Systems . In: Surveillance and Security: Technological Politics and Power in Everyday Life. New York 2006.
  • Directing Traffic: Surveillance in Beijing, Amsterdam, London . In: Alphabet City 10: Suspect. Boston: MIT Press 2005.
  • The next generation: visual surveillance in the age of databases and radio tags . In: image, space, control. Frankfurt a. M. 2005.
  • CCTV and (In) dividuation In: Surveillance and Society. November 2004.
  • Planning, Design, and Validation Issues in Assistive Technology: State of the Art and New Participative Tools (in collaboration with H – L. Dienel and Alexander Peine). In: Gerotechnology: Research and Practice in Technology and Aging: A Textbook and Reference for Multiple Disciplines. Heidelberg 2004.
  • Watching the boxer's body . In: sport, staging, event, art. Kiel 2004.
  • Expert Witnesses as Engaged Intellectuals: A discussion with Janine Fuller of Little Sisters . In: Canadian Woman Studies. May 1996.
  • Cameron is a regular contributor to magazines, radio and TV shows.

Individual evidence

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personal data
SURNAME Cameron, Heather
BRIEF DESCRIPTION British social scientist
DATE OF BIRTH 1969
PLACE OF BIRTH London