Dr. Barbara Grimpe

Barbara Grimpe holds a PhD in Sociology (University of Konstanz, Germany) and an MA in Cultural Studies (University of Frankfurt on the Oder, Germany). Before joining the GREAT project she was a co-investigator in the interdisciplinary project “Understanding Trust” at the University of Zurich, Switzerland. Her fields of interest are science and technology studies, cultural sociology, globalization studies, and social studies of finance. She has done qualitative research (participant observation, qualitative interviews, discourse analysis) in various technical and organizational settings worldwide. For instance, her PhD thesis is based on a ten month multi-sited ethnography carried out in a technology-driven debt management unit of the United Nations in Geneva, Switzerland, and in three countries (Argentina, Indonesia and Burkina Faso). Her teaching experience includes B.A. and M.A. courses on (global) ethnography, sociology of technology, and cultural sociology.

Selected Publications:

Mark Hartswood, Barbara Grimpe, Marina Jirotka and Stuart Anderson. "Towards the Ethical Governance of Smart Society". In Daniele Miorandi, Vincenzo Maltese, Micheal Rovatsos, Anton Nijhold and James Stewart (eds): Social Collective Intellegence: Combining the Powers of Humans and Machines to Build a Smarter Society. Springer, 2014 (In Press).

Barbara Grimpe, Mark Hartswood and Marina Jirotka. 2014. "Towards a Closer Dialogue Between Policy and Practice: Responsible Design in HCI. Proceedings of the SIGCHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, pp. 2965-2974.

Barbara Grimpe, Mark Hartswood, Keren Asante, Richard Owen, and Marina Jirotka. 2014. "Responsible Innovation in Financial Markets: A Research Programme". SIGCHI Extended Abstracts.

Mark Hartswood‚ Barbara Grimpe and Marina Jirotka. 2013. "Towards Ethical Governance of Social Machines".  International Conference on Cloud and Green Computing (CGC), pp. 426-427.