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Maja Horst

Associate professor , PhD
Maja Horst

Department of Management, Politics and Philosophy

Porcelænshaven 18B
DK-2000 Frederiksberg

Tel.: +45 3815 2826
Cell phone: +45 4117 6866
Fax:+45 3815 3635
E-mail: mh.lpf@cbs.dk

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I am interested in the relationship between science and society – with particular emphasis on public communication about science and technology. Crucial political questions for future knowledge society will be the governance of science and technology as well as conflicts over interpretations of risk and the distribution of resources for research. In order for science to produce socially robust knowledge and technologies, it is necessary to improve the communicative relationship between science and society. This is also a condition for my own research, and I am therefore committed to work with science communication and research management in both theory and practice.

Primary research areas

• Science and Technology Studies
• Public Understanding of Science
• Research Management
• Science and Risk Communication
• Sociology of innovation

Administrative functions

Selected publications

• Maja Horst & Alan Irwin: Nations at ease with radical knowledge: on consensus, consensusing and fals consensusness. Social Studies of Science (forthcoming).
• Maja Horst: Taking our own medicine – on an experiment in science communication. Science and Engineering Ethics (forthcoming) .
• Maja Horst: The laboratory of Public Debate: understanding the acceptability of stem cell research. Science and Public Policy 35(3), 2008.
• Maja Horst, Alan Irwin, Peter Healey & Rob Hagendijk: European scientific governance in a global context - resonances, implications and reflections. IDS Bulletin 38(5)6-20, 2007.
• Maja Horst: Public Expectations of Gene Therapy: Scientific Futures and Their Performative Effects on Scientific Citizenship. Science, Technology and Human Values 32(2)150-171, 2007
• Maja Horst: Cloning Sensations: Mass Mediated Articulation of Social Responses to Controversial Biotechnology. In Public Understanding of Science, 14(2)185-200, 2005.
• Maja Horst: Controversy and collectivity -articulations of social and natural order in mass mediated representations of biotechnology, Ph.d.-afhandling, Samfundslitteratur, 2003.