Ina Wagner

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Ina Wagner (* 1946 ) is an Austrian physicist, computer scientist and sociologist. In 1987 she was the first female professor to be appointed to the Faculty of Computer Science from outside the Vienna University of Technology and also the first to deal mainly with feminist research, women's studies and gender studies in the natural sciences and technology. From 2009 she also held an active professorship at the University of Oslo . In 2011 Wagner retired in Austria.

Career

After completing her doctorate in physics in 1972 at the University of Vienna , Wagner worked as an assistant specializing in physics didactics at the Institute for Solid State Physics at the University of Vienna. She completed a degree in irregular studies with a minor in education and did a dissertation in nuclear physics. She also attended courses in philosophy and epistemology.

In 1979 Wagner completed his habilitation at the University of Education in Klagenfurt.

In the 1980s, Wagner worked on three women's research projects on behalf of the women's department of the Ministry of Social Affairs : girls in non-traditional apprenticeships, women's work in automated offices - one of the world's first studies on office automation - and women in unskilled professions.

When she was appointed to the Faculty of Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology in 1987, she was the second woman to receive a professorship in the history of the TU, and she was the first female professor to come from another university.

In 1998 Wagner completed his habilitation in computer science ( Computer Supported Cooperative Work ) at the Vienna University of Technology.

Wagner was a university professor for multidisciplinary system design and headed the Institute for Design and Impact Research at the Faculty of Computer Science at the Vienna University of Technology from 1987 until her retirement in 2011. Her research focused on women, work and technology as well as technology in the health sector. She also worked on European projects in the fields of architecture and urban planning, most recently “Integrated Project City”. Between 1997 and 2000 Wagner was a member of the European Commission's ethics group . Since 2001 she has been working in the Austrian Bioethics Commission .

Work on equality for women

Wagner helped set up the working group for equal treatment at the Vienna University of Technology and was chairwoman of the equal treatment group in the Ministry of Science, Research and Art from 1995 to 1997. During this time she wrote the first women's advancement plan together with Silvia Ulrich . As a qualified professor, she often awarded diploma theses and dissertations on interdisciplinary topics.

Works

  • Women in the Automated Office. Contradictory Experiences - Individual and Collective Coping Strategies. In: A. Olerup, L. Schneider, E. Monod (Eds.): Women, Work and Computerization. North Holland, Amsterdam 1985, 53-64.
  • Forgotten women's work areas. Career paths, working conditions, life prospects. With Ferdinand Lechner, Ulrike Papouschek, Gerald Steinhardt and Angelika Volst, Focus Verlag, Gießen 1991, ISBN 3-8834-9387-2 .

Prizes and awards

Web links

Individual evidence

  1. ↑ a b Brigitte Ratzer: Gabriele Possanner State Award to Prof. Ina Wagner. Coordination Office for the Advancement of Women and Gender Studies, Vienna University of Technology , March 8, 2012. Accessed May 27, 2014.
  2. ↑ Inside staff member of the University of Oslo ( Memento of the original from September 16, 2016 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 27, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.mn.uio.no
  3. ↑ a b c d e “If I had been able to retire, I would have stayed.” In: dieStandard.at . Retrieved May 27, 2014.
  4. ↑ a b CV on Ina Wagner's website. Retrieved June 22, 2014.
  5. ↑ List of members of the Bioethics Commission at the Federal Chancellery ( Memento of the original from April 21, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 27, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.bundeskanzleramt.at
  6. ↑ List of the award winners ( Memento of the original from July 14, 2014 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. on the website of the Federal Ministry for Science, Research and Economy . Retrieved July 1, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / Wissenschaft.bmwfw.gv.at
  7. ↑ Women's Prize of the City of Vienna, Prize Winners 2011 ( Memento of the original from April 13, 2012 in the Internet Archive ) Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. . Retrieved May 27, 2014.  @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / www.wien.gv.at
  8. ^ TU Wien: Academic honorary citizens . Retrieved April 22, 2019.
personal data
SURNAME Wagner, Ina
BRIEF DESCRIPTION Austrian physicist, computer scientist and sociologist
DATE OF BIRTH 1946