Dr. Barbara Grimpe

Research interests (Forschungsschwerpunkte)

I am a sociologist conducting qualitative research into a variety of areas such as Science and Technology Studies (STS), Cultural Sociology and Responsible Research and Innovation. I have worked at the intersections of Human-Computer Interaction and STS, and some of my publications draw on insights from neighbouring fields of STS, namely Social Studies of Finance and Economic Sociology.

Part of my empirical research has been about governance and responsible innovation. Earlier empirical work concerned trust and quantification in global microfinance. Moreover, I am currently reconsidering former ethnographic fieldwork of mine into urban water supply in Sub-Saharan Africa. Based on the observed problems of digitisation I am developing a theoretical contribution to STS care ethics.

Selected publications (Ausgewählte Publikationen)

Grimpe B., Stahl B., Ten Holter C., Inglesant P., Eden G., Patel M. & Jirotka M. (2020): From collaborative to institutional reflexivity: calibrating responsibility in the funding process. In: Science and Public Policy, forthcoming.

Grimpe, B. (2019): Attending to the importance of context: Trust as a process in global microfinance. Journal of Trust Research, 9, 1, 87-109.

Ahrweiler, P., Gilbert, N., Schrempf, B., Grimpe B. & Jirotka, M. (2018): The role of civil society organisations in European responsible Research and Innovation. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 6, 1, 25-49.

Jirotka M., Grimpe B., Stahl B., Eden G., & Hartswood M. (2017): Responsible Research and Innovation in the Digital Age. Communications of the ACM, 60, 5, 62-68.

Grimpe B. (2015): New global visions of microfinance: The construction of markets from indicators. Rottenburg R., Merry S., Park S.-J., & Mugler J. (eds.): The world of indicators. The making of governmental knowledge through quantification. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 254-282.

Grimpe B., Hartswood M., & Jirotka M. (2014): Towards a closer dialogue between policy and practice: responsible design in HCI. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’14). ACM, New York, NY, USA, 2965-2974. https://ora.ox.ac.uk/objects/uuid:ada7097f-d55e-41cf-9ece-b1991d4d9775

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