A wrap up of 2023 and festive wishes from the CSTS Group
The CSTS is ready to close those laptops and enjoy a short break after a fruitful year of new team members of projects kicking off. Here's a wrap up of our year in this blog.
Its been a year of growth and celebration for the CSTS Group with the addition of many new members and the start of two exciting new projects, and a number of new publications.
In February, Stephanie Briers joined us to work on the DIAMOND project as a postdoctoral researcher, where the CSTS group are leading the codesign approach of updating, expanding and opening six Integrated Assessment Models for net zero, sustainable development. Two new doctoral students also joined our team this year. In August, Konstanty Ramotowski, and along with that kicked off the CoSi project, which looks at the integration of Social Sciences and the Humanities in the Swiss Energy Transition. Helena Winiger, joined the CSTS group in September and is working on the INTERSECTIONS project, focusing on norms in inter- and transdisciplinary cultures and practices of technology domains.
We were also lucky to welcome two masters students, Victoria Herbig and Valeria Merlo, working in the DIAMOND and INTERSECTIONS teams and we look forward to seeing the outcomes of their theses next year. Some other additions to the CSTS group include, visiting scholar Bernardo Castro Renteria who successfully passed his proposal for his PhD this month (congratulations!), and external pageNathalie Dupin, who is based at the University of Edinburg and is working on a paper for the INTERSECTIONS project on the persistent contradictions between ID/TD in policy and practice.
Doctoral candidate, Anne-Sophie Schaltegger, also made headway in her PhD within the INTERSECTIONS project, consolidating and publishing a database (356 papers) along with the complex search strings she developed to search for relevant literature on ID and TD. A selection of records from this database was qualitatively coded by the INTERSECTIONS team and is the base for several upcoming publications in the project. Anne-Sophie also started her empirical fieldwork this year which will continue full force in 2024.
We’ve had many outputs, including conferences, blogs and papers. The topics worked on in the CSTS group were published or represented in 10 papers this year. We are also proud of the book, “external pageFoundations of Interdisciplinary and Transdisciplinary Research” that our group leader, Bianca Vienni-Baptista launched this year, co-edited together with Isabel Fletcher and Catherine Lynall. A big congratulations to Bianca for her continuous contribution to furthering cultural studies of science and technology.
Eary next year we look forward to submitting our first deliverable for DIAMOND: “Toward Mutual Understanding”. We also look forward to meeting our colleagues at the CoSi and DIAMOND general meetings taking place in January. For now, we will take the well-deserved rest and wish all of you a wonderful festive season.