Disciplinary profile: historical and sociological studies of science and technology. Core themes: theory and methodology of science and technology studies; democratisation of technological culture; vulnerability of technological culture; science and technology in Europe and for development; science and technology policies; ICT and the socio-cultural dimensions of the information society; gender and technology; water management, nanotechnology and biotechnology.
Links
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PrP76QtwDf8: Filmed public lecture on "Vulnerability in Technological Cultures", Barcelona, 15 October 2009, Universidad Oberta de Catalunya
Wiebe E. Bijker, "The Public and Issues of Science": Article on central op-ed page of The Hindu, 10th February 2011, on the Societal Dialogue on Nanotechnologies in The Netherlands: Hindu article Dutch Nano Dialogue .pdf
Interview (in Nederlands) door Esther Thole in LEV, november 2009, over maatschappelijke aspekten van life sciences (deelcommissie Life Sciemce 2020): Interview Bijker in LEV.pdf
Knowledge Swaraj: AnIndian Manifesto on Science and Technology: final result from European FP7 project SET-DEV, presented in conferences in Hyderabad, Nairobi and Brussels in March-April 2011.: Knowledge-swaraj-an-Indian-S&T-manifesto.pdf
Interview of Wiebe Bijker by Shiv Visvanathan: a contribution to conversations between India and The Netherlands on how democracies can deal with the risks and benefits of emerging sciences and technologies, illustrated with the case of nanotechnologies.: Shiv Asian Age interview Bijker.pdf
Interview (in Nederlands) door Marion de Boo met Wiebe Bijker. Gepubliceerd in Synthese, NWO-Jaaroverzicht 2009: SyntheseNWO Bijker.pdf
Bijker, W. E. (2010). Technoscientific Dialogues. Expertise, Democracy and Technological Cultures. Tecnoscienza, 1(2), 121-140.: Tecnoscienza 2010.pdf
Lecture at the occasion of the Dies Natalis 2009 of Maastricht University, as delivered in the St. Johns Church on 8th January 2009: UM Dies Natalis 2009 Bijker as delivered.pdf