Author: NomadIT

EASST Fund supports: Epistemic Dizziness STS Workshop

In an era fraught with dizzying socio-political events and burgeoning ecological catastrophes, the Epistemic Dizziness workshop delved into the concept of epistemic dizziness as a disordered state of whirling vertigo, applying it to the contemporary state of STS. The event took place in September 2023 in Berlin.

Sarah Rose Bieszczad, Guus Dix, Jorrit Smit

Sarah Rose Bieszczad is PhD candidate at Leiden University, currently investigating how shifts towards societal relevance shape deep sea research and its (dis)engagement with deep sea mining research.|Guus Dix is assistant professor sociology of science at the University of Twente and climate activist for Extinction Rebellion and Scientist Rebellion.|Jorrit Smit is a postdoctoral researcher at […]

Knut H. Sørensen

Knut H. Sørensen is professor emeritus affiliated with Centre for Technology and Society, Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, Norwegian University of Science and Technology. His academic work has covered many topics within STS, including user perspectives on technology (domestication), climate and energy, feminist technoscience, universities, and interdisciplinarity.

Sisco Auala, Hannah Dalgleish

Dr Sisco Auala: Researcher/Senior Lecturer, Namibia University of Science and Technology. An indigenous tourism researcher with more than 20 years of experience in tourism development. She holds a PhD in tourism development from the Nelson Mandela University in South Africa. Her research interests are in dark sky tourism, indigenous astronomy, and community development. Connecting humanity […]

Mareike Smolka, Maximilian Braun, Carla Greubel, Philipp Neudert, Cindy Rentrop, Lisa Wiedemann

Mareike Smolka is a postdoctoral researcher and coordinator of the Collaborative Innovation research group at the Human Technology Center of RWTH Aachen University in Germany. She completed a PhD in STS at Maastricht University in the Netherlands. Her research interests include STS, Responsible Innovation, Empirical Ethics, Socio-Technical Integration Research, and Conference Studies. In her current […]