Nadine Hoser

Contact

Graduiertenkolleg Märkte und Sozialräume in Europa

Otto-Friedrich-Universität Bamberg

Lichtenhaidestr. 11

96052 Bamberg

Tel.: 0951 - 863 - 3128

Email: nadine.hoser(at)uni-bamberg.de

Dissertation

Nanotechnology Education and Science in Germany and the U.S.

The Inner Organizational Life of Nanotechnology at Universities

The dissertation deals with the question if and how nanotechnology as a high technology has developed into an organizational field in the U.S. and German academic sector. The study asks to what extent “corporatist” Germany differs from or resembles the “liberal” U.S. in the areas of nanotechnology research and higher education teaching at universities, above all within the context of the recent European Bologna reform of higher education. This problem setting entails the following questions that have not been answered in research so far:

1. How is the development of nanotechnology in academia evaluated by university researchers?
2. How do researchers themselves contribute to the emergence of nanotechnology as an academic field by applying, among others, institutional mechanisms of innovation?

More precisely, it is of interest how researchers who are engaged in nanotechnology define and assess the role of nanotechnology as a discipline, specialty, and high technology that is promising for university reputation and funding (or not). Interview techniques and social simulation models are used to tackle these issues.

Research interests

• Innovation and technology in knowledge societies
• Higher education and international comparisons
• Transcultural communication
• Industrial sociology, professions and work biographies, labor markets

Publications

Hoser, N. (2010). Nanotechnology and its Institutionalization as an Innovative Technology: Professional Associations and the Market as Two Mechanisms of Intervention in the Field of Nanotechnology. Nanotechnology Law & Business 7(2).

Hoser, N. (2010). Dual-career couples and their life narratives: Torn between work and children? In I. Götz, G. Koch, K. Schönberger, & M. Seifert (Eds.): Mobilität und Mobilisierung, Frankfurt/M.: Campus Verlag.

Hoser, N. (2008). Online wie Offline? Zur Vermittlung von medizinischem Wissen an der Universidad de Chile [Online just as offline? On the communication of medical knowledge at the University of Chile]. In G. Koch (Ed.), Transkulturelle Praktiken. Empirische Studien zu einer modernen Form der Wissensproduktion. St. Ingbert: Röhrig Universitätsverlag.

Hoser, N., & Peiner, A. C. (2007). E-Learning als Innovation: Analyse einerPopularisierungsstrategie zur Einführung von E-Learning in der Jordan Education Initiative [E-Learning as innovation: Analysis of a popularization strategy of the introduction of E-Learning in the Jordan Education Initiative]. In G. Koch & B. J. Warneken (Eds.), Region – Kultur – Innovation. Wege in die Wissensgesellschaft. Wiesbaden: Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.

Conferences and workshops

September 13-17, 2010
Participation in the first ESSA (European Social Simulation Association) summer school at University of Brescia, Italy, and presentation of own research on the emergence of the field of nanotechnology in academia

April 10 2010
Presentation with Chunyan E. Song, CSU Chico on “Food & Children in Four Different Cultures: The Impact of Globalization, Culture, & Family on Food Consumption among Preschool-Age Children” (authors: Chunyan E. Song, Julie Schneider, Keiko Goto, Nadine Hoser & Yoko Yoshikawa, CSU Chico) at the annual Pacific Sociological Association conference in Oakland, CA, USA

January – May 2010
Teaching “Education and Society,” an online and on-campus capstone seminar, at California State University, Chico

December 8 2009
Presentation “International Forum” at California State University, Chico on “The German Higher Education System Revisited”

December 2 2009
Guest lecture in “Research Methods” at California State University, Chico on “In-depth Interviewing: Theory and Practice”

November 4 2009
Guest lecture in “Introductory Sociology” at California State University, Chico on “Education and its Role in Society: Germany and the U.S.”

October 29 2009
Guest lecture in “Classical Sociological Theory” at California State University, Chico on “Society and Work in Germany”

August 30-September 4 2009
“The Transition from Higher Education into the Labor Market in Nanotechnology Career Profiles” at COMS 2009, Copenhagen, Denmark

July 2-3 2009
Organization and participation in a workshop on “Institutional Change in Education, Science and Research in the Context of International Competition” at Bamberg University, Germany

March 26-28 2009
“Mobility and Mobilization. Work in the Context of Sociocultural, Economic, and Political Change. International Conference on the Ethnography of Work Cultures” at Ludwig-Maximilians-University in Munich, Germany: Presentation entitled “The Mobilization of the Female Workforce. Gender-different Experiences on the Subjectification of Work and the Convergence of Life and Work Worlds”