New Perspectives in Science Education
Karin Ludewig
Institution: Hochschule Furtwangen University
Address: Jakob-Kienzle-Straße 17
Postal Code: 78054
Country: Germany
Karin Ludewig is member of the academic staff at Hochschule Furtwangen University in the project group Netzwerk Frauen.Innovation.Technik. The group aims at rising the percentage of women in STEM disciplines (mechanical engineering and computer science) in the German federal state of Baden-Württemberg.
Karin graduated in Philosophy, Sociology and Musicology from Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in 1994. She holds a PhD from Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg; her doctoral thesis examined the influence of French philosopher Michel Foucault on poststructuralist feminist theory. In 2011, she completed postgraduate studies at Humboldt-University of Berlin with a degree as Master of Arts of Library and Information Science. Since 2000, for the last 17 years, she has constantly been working in research and infrastructure projects in the higher education sector.
After working as a librarian and project manager of a cataloguing union of the federal state museums of Baden-Württemberg she was employed as a researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz (Germany) and at Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). She was senior manager of the Europe-wide research and lobbying network ENCES (European Network for Copyright in Support of Education and Science). In this role, she focused on copyright in the digital world, supported the Open Access movement and participated as an expert in intellectual property in the EU-funded project MedOANet.
Apart from running the information platform scientifica of Netzwerk Frauen.Innovation.Technik at Hochschule Furtwangen University, Karin is responsible for the evaluation of the spring/summer schools informatica feminale Baden-Württemberg and meccanica feminale. She develops and loans a travelling exhibition on famous women who received patents for technical inventions to interested institutions.
Areas of expertise: Judith Butler, poststructuralist feminist theory, museum documentation, copyright law, intellectual property, statistical evaluation of questionnaires.
Karin graduated in Philosophy, Sociology and Musicology from Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg in 1994. She holds a PhD from Albert-Ludwigs-University of Freiburg; her doctoral thesis examined the influence of French philosopher Michel Foucault on poststructuralist feminist theory. In 2011, she completed postgraduate studies at Humboldt-University of Berlin with a degree as Master of Arts of Library and Information Science. Since 2000, for the last 17 years, she has constantly been working in research and infrastructure projects in the higher education sector.
After working as a librarian and project manager of a cataloguing union of the federal state museums of Baden-Württemberg she was employed as a researcher at the Department of Computer and Information Science, University of Konstanz (Germany) and at Berlin School of Library and Information Science, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin (Germany). She was senior manager of the Europe-wide research and lobbying network ENCES (European Network for Copyright in Support of Education and Science). In this role, she focused on copyright in the digital world, supported the Open Access movement and participated as an expert in intellectual property in the EU-funded project MedOANet.
Apart from running the information platform scientifica of Netzwerk Frauen.Innovation.Technik at Hochschule Furtwangen University, Karin is responsible for the evaluation of the spring/summer schools informatica feminale Baden-Württemberg and meccanica feminale. She develops and loans a travelling exhibition on famous women who received patents for technical inventions to interested institutions.
Areas of expertise: Judith Butler, poststructuralist feminist theory, museum documentation, copyright law, intellectual property, statistical evaluation of questionnaires.
