Ulrike Felt

Ulrike Felt (* 1957) is an Austrian doctor of physics and science researcher. She was from 1983 to 1988 at the European Nuclear Research Center ( CERN) active in Geneva, from 1989 at the Institute for Philosophy and Science Studies at the University of Vienna that guides since 1999.

Life

Felt studied Physics, Mathematics and Astronomy and received his PhD in 1983 in theoretical physics at the University of Vienna. Then she continued her research from 1983 to 1988 at the European Nuclear Research (CERN ) in Geneva. During this time, her interest deepened to the social science research and in 1989 she returned back to the University of Vienna and has since been working at the Institute of Social Studies of Science. 1997 Habilitation Felt, since 1999 she has Vorständin founded by Helga Nowotny Institute.

Felt was a 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 ETH Zurich. From 1994 to 1999 she was a member of the Executive Board of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology ( EASST ), and from 2002 to 2004 in 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 launched in 2009 co-founded the Master program Science - Technology - Society at the University of Vienna. In addition to the management of the Institute for Social Studies of Science is also Vice- study program director Sociology and Vice- Dean of the Faculty of Social Sciences.

At Felts research interests include the development and interaction of different forms of knowledge, science communication, participation and governance of technoscience with a focus on biomedicine, life sciences and nanotechnologies, knowledge policy 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 System Science (1992 ) with Helga Nowotny in Science, Technology, & Human Values ​​17/4, pp. 506-531
  • Fabricating Scientific Success Stories ( 1993) Public Understanding of Science 2/4, pp. 375-390
  • " Public " Science: On the relationship of science and society in Vienna by the turn of the century to the end of the First Republic (1996 ) in Austrian Journal of History 7/1, pp. 45-66
  • " The management of the Spirit". Thoughts on Austrian "reform" in education and science (1996 ) in Austrian Journal of Sociology 21/4, pp. 42-60
  • Women in the tension between scientific knowledge and folk knowledge. ( Vienna around 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 positioning social scientific knowledge in public space (2000) in Austrian Journal of Sociology Special Volume 5 ( Sociological and historical analyzes of the social sciences, ed Christian Fleck ), pp. 177-212
  • Les techno sciences 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 Austrian Journal of History 13/1, pp. 138-42
  • Education through science. Highlights a debate about the relationship between science and its publics (2002) in THE Journal of Adult Education 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 Cultures Technopolitical 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 commitment to 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
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