Dr Bernike Pasveer (B.)
Bernike Pasveer is Assistant Professor at the Department of Technology, Science & Society of FASoS/UM. She holds a PhD in the Sociology of Science & Technology from the University of Amsterdam (1992), and was a post-doctoral researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation in Paris (1993, 1994).
From 2006 to 2010 she was seconded in the field of Development Cooperation. In 2010 she returned to FASoS.
She is generally interested in the situatedness of and the technologies engaged in how so-called natural bodies perform. She has worked on (medical) imaging; reproductive health and freedom of choice; technologies of childbirth; the learning body in sports; the travel of medical guidelines and protocols to developing countries; death and dying. Currently she works on the intersections of home, care, and aging.
She teaches in the interfaculty minor Globalisation and Inequality, and in the Master Globalisation & Development Studies.
Education
1992 University of Amsterdam, Ph.D.
Dissertation: Shadows of Knowledge. History & social philosophy of medical imaging technologies.
1985 University of Groningen, drs., cum laude 1985.
Sociology
Ba thesis: dutch documentary photography
major: social philosophy
academic appointments
1996- Assistant professor
Faculty of Arts and Culture, University of Maastricht
1986-90 Graduate student
Dept. of Science Dynamics
University of Amsterdam
1990-93 Junior Researcher
Dept. of Science Dynamics
University of Amsterdam
2005-2006 Projectmanager
Rathenau Instituut, Den Haag (secondment)
2006-2008 Senior Policy Advisor
Ministry of Foreign Affairs, DCO/OC (secondment)
2008-2010 Senior Consultant K4D
ECDPM, Maastricht (secondment)
2008-2010 Senior Policy Advisor
RNTC, Hilversum (secondment)
member of steering group ITEMS (FP5)
member of steering group The Mediated Body (NWO)
management:
member of faculty council, UM (1998 – 2002)
member of curriculum committee MediaCulture, UM (2004 - 2006)
senior policy advisor research & communication, Ministry of Foreign Affairs (2006 – 2008)
owner of Knowledge Travels (2010 - )
initiator and programme director of Sphinx (2011 - )
visiting appointments
1993-95 Associate/post-doc
(with intervals) Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation
Ecole Nationale Supérieure des Mines de Paris
Dr Bernike Pasveer (B.)
Assistant professor