Tanja Schneider

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Neuroturn in the social sciences

Digitalisation of everyday life

FoodTech and the future of food

Autonomous systems in the making and societal implications

Governance and accountability

• 2004 - 2008 Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.), Discipline of Marketing, Faculty of Economics and Business, The University of Sydney, Australia
• 1999 - 2003 Master in Business Administration and Economics (lic.oec. HSG, equivalent to M.A.), University of St. Gallen, Switzerland

Selected courses taught at University of St. Gallen since autumn semester 2015:

• Sociology of Science, Technology and Innovation (Assessment, Critical Thinking, 2 SWS)

• Haben oder Sein: Soziologische Perspektiven auf das Leben in der Konsumgesellschaft (To have or to be: Sociological perspectives on life in a consumer society) (Bachelor, Contextual Studies, 4h per week)
• Experiencing Technologies (Bachelor, Kontextstudium, 4 SWS) mit Prof. Dr. Johanna Gollnhofer (SoM, HSG) 

• Food politics and the limits of markets (Master, Contextual Studies, 2h per week)
• Forschen für die Masterarbeit: Qualitative Forschungsmethoden zum Verfassen einer Masterarbeit (Master, Contextual Studies, 2h per week)
• Demokratie in der Digitalen Gesellschaft (Democracy in a digital society) (Master, Contextual Studies, 2h per week) with Prof. Dr. Tina Freyburg (SEPS, HSG)
• Organizations and Digital Activism (MOK, 4SWS) 

• Die Zukunft des Essens (The future of food - public lecture series)

• Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology and Society (STS-CH), co-president since winter 2017 (with Loïc Riom, University of Geneva and Mines ParisTech)
• European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST), member

• Since 2015: Research Affiliate, Institute for Science, Innovation and Society, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, United Kingdom  
• 2015-2017: Research Associate, School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, United Kingdom 
  
• Since 2012: Co-founder, Oxford Food Governance Group, University of Oxford, United Kingdom
• Since 2011: Fellow, Unit for Biocultural Variation and Obesity (UBVO), School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford, United Kingdom  
• Since 2010: Co-founder and researcher, Discursive Families Network, initiated with funds from The Leverhulme Trust, United Kingdom