Maja Horst

Fellowship
Hans Fischer Senior Fellowship
Appointment
2021
Institution
DTU – Technical University of Denmark
Department
Technology, Management and Economics
Host
Prof. Ruth Müller
Focus Group
Responsible Innovation Communication
Short CV
My background is interdisciplinary with training in communication, sociology and management studies. I am an internationally recognized scholar of science communication and science and technology studies and have published widely within these fields. In addition, I have been experimenting with interactive communication formats for which I have been awarded the Danish Science Minister’s communication prize. In the periode 2011-2019, I served as Head of Department of Media, Cognition and Communication at University of Copenhagen and was appointed Professor of Science Communication in 2014. In 2019, I was appointed Professor of Responsible Innovation at DTU. I have also been engaged in Science Policy as member of the Danish Science and Innovation Policy council from 2014-2019 and as member (2020) and Chair of the Independent Research Fund Denmark (from 2021). In 2021 I was elected president of the European Association for the Study of Science and Technology.
Selected Awards
- 2020-2023, Visions and sense-making on AI in China, SDC PhD-stipend (200K Euro)
- 2020-2023, Public Communication of AI, DTU Alliance stipend (150K Euro)
- 2013-2014, Installation about Scientific Social Responsibility (20K Euro)
- 2013-2017, BioSYNergy. PI: Birger Lindberg Møller, University of Copenhagen’s Excellence programme for Interdisciplinary Research (3 mio Euro)
- 2013-2015, Materiality and Affect in Public Engagement with Science (MAPES). Marie Curie IIF grant to Sarah R Davies with Maja Horst as scientist in charge (225K Euro)
- 2011, Member of ATV (Danish Academy of Technical Sciences)
- 2010-2014, Scientific Social Responsibility (SSR). The Danish Social Science Research Council (450K Euro)
- 2009, Danish Science Minister’s Science Communication Prize
- 2007-2009, Research Management and Risk (REMAR). The Danish Social Science Research Council (150K Euro)
- 2007, Stem cell research in the public sphere). Danish Research Council for the Humanities (80K Euro)
Research Interests
Science and Technology Studies, Public Communication of Science & Technology, Public Understanding of Science, Research Management, Responsible Research and Innovation, Sociology of Innovation
Selected Publications
- Maja Horst (2021): Science communication as a boundary space: An interactive installation about the social responsibility of science. Online first doi.org/10.1177/01622439211003662
- Qiaoyan Zhu & Maja Horst (2019): Science communication activism: Protesting Traditional Chinese Medicine in China. Public Understanding of Science. 28(7)812-827
- Cecilie Glerup, Sarah R Davies & Maja Horst (2017): 'Nothing really responsible goes on here': Scientists' experience and practice of responsibility. Journal of Responsible Innovation 4(3)319-336
- Maja Horst, Sarah R Davies & Alan Irwin (2017): Reframing Science Communication. In Felt et al (eds): Handbook of Science and Technology Studies. Boston: MIT Press.
- Sarah R Davies & Maja Horst (2016): Science Communication: Culture, Identity and Citizenship. London, Palgrave Macmillan.
- Sarah R Davies & Maja Horst (2015): Crafting the Group: Care in research management. Social Studies of Science 45(3)371-393
- Cecilie Glerup & Maja Horst (2014): Mapping ‘Social Responsibility’ in Science. Journal of Responsible Innovation 1(1)31-50.
- Maja Horst (2013): A field of expertise, the organization or science itself?: Representing research in public communication. Science Communication. 35(6)758-779.
- Maja Horst & Mike Michael (2011): On the shoulders of idiots – Re-thinking Science Communication as ‘event’. Science as Culture 20(3)283-306.
- Maja Horst & Alan Irwin (2010): Nations at ease with radical knowledge: on consensus, consensusing and false consensusness. Social Studies of Science. 40(1)105-126.