Ulrike Felt

Ulrike Felt (* 1957 ) is an Austrian physicist and science researcher . From 1983 to 1988 she worked at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) in Geneva, and from 1989 at the University of Vienna : initially at the Institute for Philosophy of Science and Science Studies. From 2004 to 2014 she was head of the Institute for Science and Technology Research (name from 2004 to 2012: Institute for Science Research) at the University of Vienna. She has been dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at the University of Vienna since 2014.

Life

Felt studied physics, mathematics and astronomy and received his doctorate in theoretical physics from the University of Vienna in 1983 . She then carried out research from 1983 to 1988 at the European Nuclear Research Center (CERN) in Geneva. During this time her interest in social science research deepened; she returned to the University of Vienna in 1989 and has worked at the Institute for Science Research ever since . Felt qualified as a professor in 1997 and has been the director of the institute founded by Helga Nowotny since 1999 .

Felt was visiting professor at the Université du Québec à Montréal , at the Maison des Sciences de l'Homme in Paris, at the University of Strasbourg and at the Collegium Helveticum at ETH Zurich . From 1994 to 1999 she was a member of the board of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST) , and from 2002 to 2004 of the Society for the Social Studies of Science (4S) . From July 2002 to June 2007 she was editor of the international peer-reviewed journal Science, Technology, & Human Values . Felt was co-founder of the Science - Technology - Society master's program at the University of Vienna, which was launched in 2009 . She has been the dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences at this university since 2014 .

Felt's research interests include the emergence and interaction of different forms of knowledge, science communication, participation and governance of technosciences with a focus on biomedicine, life sciences and nanotechnologies, knowledge politics and the relationships between science, technology and society.

Publications (selection)

• Striking Gold in the 1990s: The Discovery of High-Temperature Superconductivity and Its Impact on the Science System (1992) with Helga Nowotny in Science, Technology, & Human Values ​​17/4, pp. 506-531
• Fabricating Scientific Success Stories (1993) in Public Understanding of Science 2/4, pp. 375-390
• “Public” science: On the relationship between the natural sciences and society in Vienna from the turn of the century to the end of the First Republic (1996) in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswwissenschaften 7/1, pp. 45–66
• "The cultivation of the mind". Thoughts on the Austrian “reform” in the field of education and science (1996) in Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 21/4, pp. 42–60
• Women in the field of tension between scientific knowledge and popular knowledge. (Vienna at the turn of the century) (1999) with Anne Masseran in VIRUS - Contributions to the Social History of Medicine 1, pp. 21-27
• The “invisible” social sciences: On the problem of the positioning of social science knowledge in public space (2000) in the Austrian Journal for Sociology special volume 5 (Sociological and historical analyzes of the social sciences, ed. Christian Fleck), pp. 177–212
• Les technosciences face aux savoirs “populaires”: Mise en sens et mise en scène de la transplantation d'organes with Philippe Chavot, Anne Masseran, in Recherches en Communication 2001/15, pp. 149–67
• Instead of enlightenment ... On the problem of specific forms of science popularization (2002) in the Austrian Journal of History 13/1, pp. 138–42
• Education through science. Highlights of a debate about the relationship between science and its publics (2002) in DIE Zeitschrift für Adultbildung 2002/2, pp. 22–26
• Taking European Knowledge Society Seriously (2007) with Brian Wynne et al., Luxembourg: European Commission
• Visions and Versions of Governing Biomedicine: Narratives on Power Structures, Decision-Making, and Public Participation in the Field of Biomedical Technologies in the Austrian Context (2008) with Maximilian Fochler, Astrid Mager, Peter Winkler in Social Studies of Science 38/2, Pp. 233-258
• The bottom-up meanings of the concept of public participation (2008) with Maximilian Fochler in Science and Public Policy 35/7, pp. 489-499
• Shaping the Future E-Patient: The Citizen-Patient in Public Discourse on E-Health (2009) with Lisa Gugglberger, Astrid Mager in Science Studies 22/1, pp. 24–43
• Unruly ethics. On the difficulties of a bottom-up approach to ethics in the field of genomics (2009) with Maximilian Fochler, Annina Müller, Michael Strassnig in Public Understanding of Science 18/3, 354–371
• Refusing the information paradigm. Informed consent, medical research, and patient participation (2009) with Milena Bister, Michael Strassnig, Ursula Wagner in Health: an interdisciplinary journal for the Social Study of Health, Illness and Medicine 13/1, pp. 87-106
• Coming to Terms with Biomedical Technologies in Different Technopolitical Cultures with Maximilian Fochler, Peter Winkler in Science, Technology, & Human Values ​​35/4, pp. 525-553
• Machineries for Making Publics: Inscribing and Describing Publics in Public Engagement (2010) with Maximilian Fochler in Minerva 48/3, pp. 219–238
• Slim futures and the fat pill. Civic imaginations of innovation and governance in an engagement setting (2011) with Maximilian Fochler in Science as Culture 20/3, pp. 307–328
• Tentative (Id) entities. On Technopolitical Cultures and the Experiencing of Genetic Testing (2011) with Ruth Müller in BioSocieties 6/3, pp. 342–363
• Re-Ordering Epistemic Living Spaces (2012) with Maximilian Fochler in Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook 28, pp. 133–154

Web links

• Page at the Institute for Science Studies at the University of Vienna

Individual evidence

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7. ↑ Publications at the Institute for Science Research ( Memento of the original from March 21, 2013 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.