EASST Awards for Collaborative Activity 2014
President of EASST, Professor Fred Steward, announced the recipients of the EASST
collaborative awards for 2014 at the EASST biannual conference in Torun, Poland on
Friday 19 September:
The EASST Amsterdamska award 2014 for ‘a significant creative collaboration in
an edited book in the broad field of science and technology studies’ is awarded to
Disasters and Politics. Materials, Experiments, Preparedness (WileyBlackwell 2014) edited by Manuel Tironi, Israel Rodríguez-Giralt and
Michael Guggenheim
The EASST Council stated:
‘This book represents a long standing, extensive, diverse and interactive
collaboration among senior and junior European and international STS colleagues.
The edited collection contributes original insights into disasters, their ontology,
governance and related preparedness. Its creative development of the theme
enriches a core concern of the Science and Technology Studies domain.’
The EASST Freeman award for ‘a publication which is a significant collective
contribution to the interaction of science and technology studies with the study of
innovation’ is awarded to:
Making Europe –Technology and Transformations 1850-2000 (Palgrave
MacmillanBook series launched 2013 edited by Johan Schot & Phil
Scranton
The EASST Council stated:
‘This series reframes the grand theme of European history and identity from a
technology based perspective. Genuinely pan-European in scope. A refreshingly
ambitious and original collaborative project. It reveals the interplay between the
material and the social in the creation of different meanings of Europe. Shows how
the lens of innovation presents a strikingly new view of the dynamics of interaction
across national boundaries in the making of Europe. The work resonates strongly
with Freeman's concerns with history, innovation and politics and with EASST's
engagement with sociotechnical change in Europe.
The EASST Ziman award 2014 for ‘a significant innovative cooperation in a venture
to promote the public understanding of the social dimensions of science’ is awarded
to
Science in Society: caring for our future in turbulent times, (European
Science Foundation: Policy Briefing; Strategic Action ‘The Future of
Science in Society’ 2011-2013 )
The EASST council stated:
‘This action constructs a broad and original framework for addressing science
and society issues.
It translates notions of diversity and reflexivity into agendas for policy and
practice; articulates notions of relevance and responsibility into a social
framework of caring rather than control, and resonates with contemporary
themes of crisis, austerity and governance
A collaborative endeavour of a prominent group of science and technology
studies academics, chaired by Ulrike Felt, with extensive participation of
research funders and European policy makers in a series of workshops.
An imaginative and elaborate engagement with public policy in the domains of
science and society.