Dissertations

Below you can find an overview of recent PhD dissertations completed in the MUSTS research programme at Maastricht University.

Franciscus Mineur - cover Er midden inFranciscus Mineur (2022)
Er midden in. Theater en kritiek in een belevingscultuur.
Supervisors: Tsjalling Swierstra, Peter Peters, Ruth Benschop

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Cover Making Responsibility MatterDanielle Shanley (2022)
Making Responsibility Matter. The emergence of responsible innovation as an intellectual movement
Supervisors: Cyrus Mody, Darryl Cressman

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book cover showing janus face of skull and buddhaMareike Smolka (2022)
Ethics in Action: Multi-Sited Engaged Ethnography on Valuation Work in Contemplative Science.
Supervisors: Cyrus Mody, Cornelius Borck, Darian Meacham.

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Veerle Spronck Listen CloselyVeerle Spronck (2022)
Listen closely: Innovating audience participation in symphonic music.
Supervisors: Peter Peters and Ruth Benschop
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Zahar Koretsky Unravelling coverZahar Koretsky (2022)
Unravelling: The dynamics of technological decline.
Supervisors: Harro van Lente and Ragna Zeiss
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Federico FerrettiFederico Ferretti (2022)
“Do-It-Yourself Science and the Transformations in Science” in collaboration with the Joint Research Centre of the European Commission.
Supervisors: Harro van Lente and Angela Pereira Guimaraes.

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Willemine Willems Connected at the JointsWillemine Willems (2021)
Connected at the joints: Calibrating knowledge, morals and health care.
Supervisors: Tsjalling Swierstra, Jessica Mesman, P. Vergauwen.

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Henk Vermande - The chemist Henk Vermande (2021)
The chemist: The history of a vanished occupational group, 1600-1820.
Supervisors: Ernst Homburg.
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Kathleen Gregory - Findable and ReusableKathleen Gregory (2021)
Findable and reusable? Data discovery practices in research.
Supervisors: Sally Wyatt, P. Groth, A. Scharnhorst.
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Michiel van Well - Religie in een Technologische CultuurMichiel van Well (2021)
Religie in een technologische cultuur: over de rol van het sacrale in de ontwikkeling van het gezondheidsportaal PAZIO.
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker, Maarten Verkerk.
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Tessa Cramer - Becoming futuristsTessa Cramer (2020)
Becoming Futurists: Reluctant professionals searching for common ground.
Supervisors: Marjolein van Asselt, Harro van Lente,
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Verena Anker - Creating dance with bytes and pixelsVerena Anker (2020)
Creating dance with bytes and pixels: technologies as mediators in digital performance rehearsals.
Supervisors: Renee van de Vall, Karel Vanhaesebrouck, Jessica Mesman.
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Anna Bon - Intervention or Collaboration?Anna Bon (2020)
Intervention or Collaboration? Redesigning information and communication technologies for development.
Supervisors: Sally Wyatt, H. Akkermans
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Carola van der Schoor - Strategies fo Energy ReconfigurationTineke van der Schoor (2020)
Strategies for Energy Reconfigurations: Obduracy, values and scripts.
Supervisors: Harro van Lente, Alexander Peine
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Marith Dieker - Talking you throughMarith Dieker (2020)
Talking You Through: The Shifting Socio-Technical Practices of Radio Traffic News, 1950s-now.
Supervisors: Karin Bijsterveld, Wiebe Bijker
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Linnea Semmerling (2020)
Listening on display: exhibiting sounding artworks 1960s-now
Supervisors: Karin Bijsterveld and Peter Peters
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Claudia Egher (2019)
Mental Health Online: The enactment of expertise on Bipolar disorder on American and French online platforms
Supervisors: Sally Wyatt and Tamar Sharon
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Jorijn van Duijn (2019)
Fortunes of High-Tech: A history of innovation at ASM International, 1958-2008
Supervisors: Harro van Lente and D. van Delft
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Andreas Mitzschke (2018)
Elusive Publics: Understanding Techno-Scientific Controversy and Democratic Governance in the GM Crops Debate
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker and Anique Hommels
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mougey-dissThomas Mougey (2018)
Enlightening the dark zone: UNESCO, Science and the Technocratic Reordering of the World in the Global South, 1937-1959
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker, Geert Somsen and Raf de Bont
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Noortje Jacobs (2018)
Ethics by committee: governing human experimentation in the Netherlands, 1945-2000
Supervisors: Frank Huisman and Tsjalling Swierstra

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Ties van de Werff (2018)
Practicing the plastic brain: popular neuroscience and the good life
Supervisors: Tsjalling Swierstra and Heleen Pott

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Zwegers Bart Zwegers (2018)
Heritage in transition: global and local challenges in Germany and the United Kingdom, 1970-2010
Supervisors: Ernst Homburg and Jo Wachelder

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SchouwenburgHans Schouwenburg (2017)
Strategies to save the earth: nature conservation experts and sustainable development, 1980-2000
Supervisors: Ernst Homburg and Raf de Bont

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schleper dissSimone Schleper (2017)
Life on Earth: Controversies on the science and politics of global nature conservation, 1960 – 1980
Supervisors: Ernst Homburg and Raf de Bont

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van-oostBart van Oost (2016)
Our climate, our underground: understanding the slow implementation of carbon capture and storage
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker and Anique Hommels

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BeumerKoen Beumer (2016)
Nanotechnology and development: styles of governance in India, South Africa, and Kenya
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker and Aalok Khandekar

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blankdissDirk Haen (2015)
The politics of good food : why food engineers and citizen-consumers are talking at cross-purposes
Supervisors: Tsjalling Swierstra and Sjaak Koenis

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hermansMarijke Hermans (2015)
Engaging with risks : citizens, science and policy in mobile phone mast siting controversies
Supervisors: Marjolein van Asselt and Wim Passchier

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Fabian de KloeFabian de Kloe (2014)
Constructing worlds with words : science and international language in the early twentieth century
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker, Nico Randeraad and Geert Somsen

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bierJess Bier (2014)
Mapping Israel, mapping Palestine : how segregated landscapes shape scientific knowledge
Supervisors: Sally Wyatt and Bas van Heur

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jacobsAnnelies Jacobs (2014)
Het geluid van gisteren : waarom Amsterdam vroeger ook niet stil was
Supervisors: Karin Bijsterveld and Andreas Fickers

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aalbersJasper Aalbers (2013)
Echoes of the city : staging the urban soundscape in fiction film
Supervisors: Karin Bijsterveld and Andreas Fickers

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bruyninckxJoeri Bruyninckx (2013)
Sound science: recording and listening in the biology of bird song, 1880-1980
Supervisors: Karin Bijsterveld and Jo Wachelder

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kouwMatthijs Kouw (2012)
Pragmatic constructions: simulation and the vulnerability of technological cultures
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker and Sally Wyatt

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hoeffkenJohanna Höffken (2012)
Power to the people? Civic engagement with small-scale hydroelectric plants in India
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker and Thomas Conzelmann

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Alexandra Supper (2012)
Lobbying for the ear: the public fascination with and academic legitimacy of the sonification of scientific data
Supervisors: Karin Bijsterveld and Jo Wachelder

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blankdissJulia Quartz (2011)
Constructing Agrarian Alternatives: how a creative dissent project engages with the vulnerable livelihood of marginal farmers in South India
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker and Anique Hommels

 

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Niki Vermeulen (2009)
Supersizing science: on building large-scale research projects in biology
Supervisors: Wiebe Bijker and Rein de Wilde

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