As a trained social anthropologist, I am working on the intersection between science and technology studies and health studies with a particular interest in participatory ethnographic methods and the sociomaterial (work) routines of health care. I research how (novel) technology is introduced into medical practice in various fields such as mental health or occupational (sleep) health. Currently, I  am developing my habilitation project regarding participatory ethnographic methods and future imaginings in medical innovation.

Current position: Postdoctoral Research Associate at Ruhr University Bochum, Faculty of Medicine, Institute for General Practice and Family Medicine

December 2019 - July 2021: DAAD PRIME Postdoctoral Fellow at the chair for Cultural Psychology of Knowledge, Faculty of Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum

During my research work, I have a focus on the anthropology of development, posing my ethnographic attention in development projects and the relations between indigenous and peasant communities, the State, and multinational corporations. I have engaged in dialogue with political ecology, postcolonial theory and science and technology studies, to inquire for the power relations, the role of technologies and the production of knowledge in contexts of resource extraction. I am especially interested in indigenous social movements and their networks with international activism, and how in these we can observe the emergence of a post-extractivism thought that disrupts and entails potentials for change in our fossil-fueled global economy.

In my current research I am focusing on water governance in dryland rural regions. With the project "Mapping Waterscapes: hydric (in)justice in rural Colombia" in which I seek to explore how in heterogeneous water entanglements local participation in water governance can be supported for the wellbeing and sustainable development of local communities.

Link to Academia: https://rub.academia.edu/SusanaCarmona

Current position: Assistant Professor, Faculty of Science and Engineering, University College Maastricht

December 2018 - September 2019: Research Associate at Ruhr-University Bochum

I started my academic life with a BA in sociology (major) and psychology (minor) at the University of Jena. There, I mostly dealt with issues surrounding the term "globalization" and very soon came to enjoy empirical research with qualitative methods. Inspired by a critical approach to analyse micro- and macro-social events, I joined the MA programme in sociology at the University of Frankfurt/Main, where I had the chance to gain greater expertise in qualitative research methods, especially ethnography, and found my way to the social studies of science and technology (STS) and environmental social sciences. I graduated with a MA thesis about experimental practices in an ecovillage and the ways in which nonhumans participate in the articulation of "sustainable living".

I am now working as a research associate at the Goethe-University Frankfurt while I stay team member of the RUSTlab Bochum: https://rustlab.ruhr-uni-bochum.de/

Current position: Research Associate at Goethe-University Frankfurt

November 2018 - November 2019: Research Associate at Ruhr-University Bochum

Abigail Nieves Delgado works as a researcher at the Centre for Anthropological Knowledge of Scientific and Technological Cultures (CAST), Ruhr University Bochum. She received her PhD from the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in 2016 (thesis titled ‘The dominion of the face: A critical and historical analysis of the study of the human face’, Spanish title). Her research focuses on the history of physical anthropology and on the role of race in contemporary forensic sciences and biometric identification. Her current project “Collecting and Categorizing Faces for Security: Facial Recognition in the Era of Big Data” is funded by the Gerda Henkel Foundation. It investigates how societal threats influence technological development in biometrics. Besides this she is interested in daily security practices of internet users, and in the configurations of identity in human-computer interactions.

Current position: Assistant Professor, Freudenthal Institute, Utrecht University

2017 - 2020: Postdoctoral Researcher, Centre for Anthropological Knowledge in Scientific and Technological Cultures (CAST), Ruhr-University Bochum

June 2016 - December 2016: Visiting PhD Student and Postdoctoral Researcher (since 10/2016) of Mercator Research Group ‘Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge’, Ruhr-University Bochum

Jan Schank received his PhD from Ruhr-University Bochum in 2015, with a dissertation on the (textual) practices of knowing media harm in age-rating computer games, supervised by Estrid Sørensen at the Mercator Research Group “Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge”. He has also taught several classes at RUB’s department of social science and worked on political enquiries as well as the making and use of “political positions” by parliamentary groups. His main research areas are ethnomethodology and conversation analysis, studies of regulation practices, practice-based studies of texts, ethnography, and Science and Technology Studies.

Current position: Research Associate at the Albert-Ludwigs-University Freiburg

February 2015: PhD in Social Science, Ruhr University Bochum Dissertation: „W/wissen in der Alterskennzeichnung von Computerspielen – Eine praxeographische Analyse ausgewählter Entscheidungstexte aus dem Freigabeverfahren bei der Unterhaltungssoftware-Selbkontrolle (USK)“ [„Knowledge and Knowing in Age-Rating Computer Games – A Praxeographic Analysis of Selected Written Decisions from the Rating Procedure at the Entertainment Software Self-Control Agency (USK)“] Supervisor: Estrid Sørensen

January 2011 – February 2015: PhD student in Social Science at Mercator Research Group „Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge“, Ruhr University Bochum (Supervisor: Estrid Sørensen)

Josefine Raasch received her PhD from Swinburne University in Melbourne, Australia, with a dissertation on teenagers’ enactment of historical knowledge in a classroom. She worked at the Ruhr-University from August 2013 till January 2019 as research fellow, project manager and for a year as lecturer. At the CUPAK, she has worked on practices through which children are documented and on knowing, doing and managing differences in democracies, both within the knowledge traditions of Science and Technology Studies. In her ethnographic analysis, situations are central as well as the relations through which her research objects come into being.

Current position: Learning Designer for Executive Education at the ESMT Berlin

2013 - 2019: Research Fellow/Lecturer/Project Coordinator at Ruhr-University Bochum, Mercator Research Group ‘Spaces of Anthropological Knowledge’ and ‘Centre for Anthropological Knowledge in Scientific and Technological Cultures’