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Dr. Sarah Rachael Davies (born August 9, 1980, Cheltenham, UK) is a British researcher in the field of Science and Technological studies. Her research focuses on different disciplines of science communication and public engagement with science, and she is currently a professor of Technosciences, Materiality, and Digital Cultures at the University of Vienna. Sarah is an editor and author as well, and served on the Editorial Board of Science Communication Journal. Sarah is also a Marie Curie Research Fellow, and she has published multiple books on science communication, nanoscience, and hacker spaces.

Life and academic career
Born August 9, 1980 in Cheltenham, England, Sarah R. Davies had an early background in science. She received her Bachelor of Science in Biochemistry in 2001 from Imperial College London; setting the stage for her career in science communication and STS. Sarah went on to receive her Master of Science in Science Communication in 2003, and her PhD in Social Studies of Science in 2007 from Imperial College London as well. While pursuing her PhD, Sarah co-founded the ‘Science and the Public’ conference; now called Science in Public (SiP). Hosted at universities across the UK, the purpose of this annual conference is to further discussion about how people engage and communicate with science. Immediately following her PhD, Sarah worked as a Research associate in the department of Geography and Institute of Hazard and Risk Research at Durham University until 2009. From 2010-2012, she performed research as a Postdoctoral Research Scholar at the Center for Nanotechnology in Society at Arizona State University. Sarah later moved on to teach at the University of Copenhagen in Denmark as a Research Fellow and Associate Professor in the University’s Department of Media, Cognition and Communication. Sarah taught at the University of Copenhagen for seven years with her teachings focused mainly on science communication studies, public communication, and STS. After Denmark, Sarah worked as a guest professor at TU Munich and a researcher at Norwegian University of Science and Technology before settling at her current institution: University of Vienna. Since February 2020, Sarah works in the Department of Science and Technology studies, teaching courses on technosciences, materiality, and digital cultures. Most recently, Sarah serves as a scientific committee member of the Public Communication of Science and Technology (PCST) Network. Sarah was elected to this committee in 2014, and her term will end in 2023.

Research
Sarah Davies has published a wide variety of books, journal articles, and reports on subjects from STS, to hackers, and various forms of science communication. Tracing her research over the years, her interests originated with her thesis in science communication and the study of discourse and dialogue between scientists and the public. Her research expanded in 2009 when Sarah moved to Arizona as her works focused particularly on nanotechnology and the ethics and public engagement associated with the topic. This can be exhibited in her book Understanding Public Debate on Nanotechnologies: options for framing public policies; co-edited with STS specialist and philosopher René Von Schomberg. Another subject that Davies spent a significant amount of time researching is the idea of hackers and hackerspaces. In her 2017 book Hackerspaces: making the marker movement, she focuses on identifying hackerspaces through first hand accounts with said 'hackers' to give historical context to the practice. In 2013, Davies received the Marie Curie Research Fellowship by the European Commission for her project 'Materiality and Affect in Public Engagement with Science' which she published multiple journal articles on. Overall, the majority of Davies' work focuses on science communication as it evolves through time and the many methods and perspectives on effective communication in interdisciplinary fields.

Publications
Among Davies' numerous works of her own, she is also a member of the Editorial Board for the Science Communication Journal. Below are some of Sarah's works:

Books

 * Exploring Science Communication: A Science and Technology Studies Approach (2020, Davies, Sarah R., Felt, Ulrike)
 * Hackerspaces: making the marker movement (2017, Davies, Sarah R.)
 * Science Communication: Culture, Identity, and Citizenship (2016, Davies, Sarah R., Horst, Maja)
 * Understanding Public Debate on Nanotechnologies: options for framing public policies (2010, Davies, Sarah R., Schomberg, René V.)

Recent Journal Articles

 * Davies S, Pham B-C. Luck and the ‘situations’ of research. Social Studies of Science. 2022 Oct. doi.org/10.1177/030631272211254


 * Davies S. STS and science communication: Reflecting on a relationship: Science Communication. 2022 May;31(3):305-313.


 * Davies S. Science Communication at a Time of Crisis: Emergency, Democracy, and Persuasion. Sustainability. 2022 Apr;14(9). 5103.


 * Verstappen S, Davies S. Investigating scientific practice with ethnographic film. In EASA Media Anthropology Network E-Seminars. Vol. 69. 2022


 * Davies S, Pham B-C, Dessewffy E, Schikowitz A, Mora-Gámez F. Pinboarding the Pandemic: Experiments in Representing Autoethnography. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 2022;8(2).


 * Schikowitz A (Author), Davies S (Author). ’Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences’: A publication story 2021.


 * Davies S. Chaos, Care, and Critique: Performing the Contemporary Academy During the COVID-19 Pandemic. Frontiers in Communication. 2021 Apr 30;6. 657823. doi.org/10.3389/fcomm.2021.657823


 * Davies S. Atmospheres of science: Experiencing scientific mobility. Social Studies of Science. 2021 Apr 1;51(2):214-232. doi.org/10.1177/0306312720953520


 * Davies S. An Empirical and Conceptual Note on Science Communication’s Role in Society. Science Communication. 2021 Feb 1;43(1):116-133. doi.org/10.1177%2F1075547020971642


 * Davies S, Lindvig K. Assembling research integrity: negotiating a policy object in scientific governance. Critical Policy Studies. 2021;15(4):444-461. doi.org/10.1080/19460171.2021.1879660


 * Davies S. Performing Science in Public: Science Communication and Scientific Identity. In Kastenhofer K, Molyneux-Hodgson S, editors, Community and Identity in Contemporary Technosciences. Cham: Springer. 2021. p. 207-223. (Sociology of the Sciences Yearbook, Vol. 31).


 * Davies S, Horst M. Science Communication as Culture: A Framework for Analysis. In Routledge Handbook of Public Communication of Science and Technology. London: Routledge. 2021. p. 182-197


 * Davies S, Franks S, Roche J, Schmidt AL, Wells R, Zollo F. The Landscape of European Science Communication. JCOM. 2021;20(3):1-9. A01. doi.org/10.22323/2.20030201


 * Davies SR. Epistemic Living Spaces, International Mobility, and Local Variation in Scientific Practice. Minerva. 2020 Mar;58(1):97-114. doi.org/10.1007/s11024-019-09387-0


 * Tybjerg K, Whiteley L, Davies S. Object Biographies: The Life of a Hacked Gene Gun. In Felt U, Davies S, editors, Exploring Science Communication. Sage Publications Ltd. 2020. p. 69-87


 * Davies S. University communications as auto-communication: the NTNU ‘Challenge Everything’ campaign. Journal of Communication Management. 2020;24(3):227-243. doi.org/10.1108/JCOM-08-2019-0120


 * Davies SR. An Ethics of the System: Talking to Scientists About Research Integrity. Science and Engineering Ethics. 2019;25(4):1235-1253. doi.org/10.1007/s11948-018-0064-y