Background On March 16, 2020, the federal government of Austria declared a nationwide
lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. Since the lockdown, screening examinations and …

On the occasion of the 10th IAS-STS Conference “Critical Issues in Science and Technology
Studies” researchers and students dealing with gender aspects in their work and studies …

This contribution will give a first introduction to the term 'queer'and how it is relevant to
science and technology studies (STS). In a broader sense,'queer'stands for questioning …

The first Austrian mono-educational program in engineering, a technical college course in
Graz, was implemented in autumn of 2008 and is training women who graduated from high …

With the design of digital media technologies becoming simple enough to be handled by
children, it has also become easier to participate in media production. For many smartphone …

In this article we want to reflect on our queer approach to Science, Technology and Society
Studies (STS). Simply put, we have realised that we want our actions (research in particular) …

Science, mathematics, computing, and engineering are the fields where women PhD
graduates are still outnumbered by men. This is true for most of the EU-27 countries, and it is …

Women-only engineering education seems to be a paradoxical but working approach to
gain gender equity in engineering (Wetterer 2003, dahmen 2005). However, single-sex …

Stephenie Meyer's vampire-romance novels of The Twilight Saga and their film versions
have triggered a hype not only among teenagers but also fascinate a greater (mainly …

This text is based on my contribution" Joys of Aunt* hood” 1 to the workshop" Make Kin Not
Babies–Discussing queer-feminist, non-natalist perspectives and pro-kin utopias, and their …