Dr. Lisa Sigl

Researcher

Research Platform “Responsible Research and Innovation in Academic Practice”
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Biography

Lisa Sigl is scientific project leader at the Research Platform "Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) in Academic Practice". Further, she facilitated interdisciplinary research processes and supports reflection of societal and environmental relevance of research practices.

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Current research interests

Transformation of research cultures in relation to their social contexts (focus on public research institutions); particularly regarding relevance to societal and environmental problems
Institutional conditions that support relevant research and inter- and transdisciplinary collaboration
Methods and tools to facilitate and manage inter- and transdisciplinary collaborations
Methods and tools to support societal and environmental relevance of research
Processes of subjectification und valuation in research cultures
Politics of Innovation and concepts of innovation in historical perspective and in international comparison

Current research projects

Valuing, Being and Knowing in Research Practices. Understanding the entanglements of valuation practices and subjectification processes in life science research (together with Maximilian Fochler and Ruth Falkenberg)

Previous research projects

At TU Wien, Lisa Sigl conducted the pilot project “Responsible Robotics” (2018-2021) to support the reflection of societal and environmental aspects of robotic systems (in collaboration with Marjo Rauhala and the DK "Trust Robots" at the Technical University of Vienna)

As research assistant at the Center for Higher Education (zhb) at TU Dortmund (2014-2016) she worked on the research project "University-industry collaboration in high-tech fields" (with a particular focus on Germany). At the intersection of science and technology studies (STS) and Higher Education Studies (HES), she is mainly interested in forms of agency that develop in new governance arrangements for research commercialization (e.g. new IPR-legislation, university-internal regulations).

During her time at the Austrian Institute for international Affairs (oiip) in Vienna, she worked with a broad range of stakeholders (ministries, funding agencies, etc.) within a “Taskforce of the Austrian Government for the Internationalisation of Science and Research Policy”. As head of the research focus “Internationalisation of Science-, Technology and Innovation Policy”, she was amongst others interested in the international comparison of innovation policies and innovation concepts in Europe, China and India.

In her PhD thesis at the Department for Science and Technology Studies at the University of Vienna, she dealt with the question how young researchers in the life sciences (PhDs, Postdocs) deal with different kinds of uncertainty and precarious working conditions. She combined conceptual approaches of STS and the Labour Studies to open up new perspectives on the transformation of research cultures today. Basis of this work was her collaboration in two research projects on the transformation of scientific research cultures – the FP6-project KNOWING („Knowledge, Institutions and Gender: An East-West Comparative Study“) and the project GOLDII („Die Biowissenschaften als Kultur und Praxis neu denken“) – and a DOC-scholarship of the öaw („Uncertain Research Landscapes“).