Bettina Johanna Krings
Researcher/Member of a student committee
in
Institut für Technikfolgenabschätzung und Systemanalyse (ITAS) Postfach 3640 76021 Karlsruhe Germany
Education
Studies of political science, sociology, and anthropology (M.A.) at the Karl-Ruprecht University of Heidelberg, and PhD on Sociology, supervised by Prof. Dr. Birgit Blättel-Mink and Prof. Dr. Tilla Siegel, University of Frankfurt on the Main.
Professional background
| 1991 - 1992 | Scientific staff member in a vocational training program (Advanced Training Programme in Educational Management and Administration for Technical and Vocational Education) at the German Foundation for International Development (DSE) in Mannheim and Berlin |
| 1992 - 1994 | Scientific staff member in a national project for promoting equal opportunities for women in education (Programa Nacional de Promocion de la Igualdad de Oportunidades para la Mujer en el Area Educativa) at the Ministry of Education of Buenos Aires, Argentina |
| Since 1995 | Scientific staff member at ITAS (formerly AFAS); temporarily working at the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag TAB  |
Current positions
- Head of the research area Knowledge society and knowledge policy
- Deputy speaker of the Work and technology topic within the "Humans and Technology" focus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Fields of work
- Technological innovations and their impacts on working structures
- Theory and methods of technology assessment (TA)
- Theory and practice of gender research