WTMC News & Events

STS NL Conference 14 – 17 April 2026

Knowledge & Technology in Times of Global Shifts

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WTMC Spring Workshop 2026

11-13 May 2026 – (Un)discipline(d): on disciplinarity, interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity

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PhD Research

Wouter Van Rossem

Finding Blind Spots: Data quality & the European Information Systems for security, border and migration management

Luc van Summeren

Community-based virtual power plant

Mario Pinzón Camargo

Decoding inclusive innovation: an approximation to the role of the local institutional entrepreneur in the success of inclusive innovation initiatives in Colombia

Sabrina Huizenga

The experimental city: unpacking big data and citizen engagement in urban health labs

Elusive Publics – Understanding Techno-Scientific Controversy and Democratic Governance in the GM Crops Debate

Andreas Mitzschke, 20 December 2018, Maastricht University

How do you know? Everyday negotiations of expert authority

Wytske Versteeg, 19 December 2018, University of Twente

ENLIGHTENING THE DARK ZONE UNESCO Science and the Technocratic Reordering of the World in the Global South 1937-1959

Thomas Mougey, 19 December 2018, Maastricht University

Report PhD employability in a precarious labor market

PhD candidates Gili Yaron and Andrea Gammon conducted a study into the career trajectories and job-searching strategies of WTMC alumni working inside and outside of academia.

Ethics by committee. Governing human experimentation in the Netherlands, 1945-2000

Noortje Jacobs, 20 June 2018, Maastricht University

Doing facial difference. The lived experiences of individuals with facial limb absence

Gili Yaron,  8 June 2018, Maastricht University

About WTMC

Netherlands Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture.

WTMC is a collective effort of scholars based in the Netherlands who study the development of science, technology and modern culture from an interdisciplinary perspective.

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