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Tanja Schneider is Head of the Human-Centred Innovation Section at the Technical University of Denmark (DTU) and Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies (STS). She is also Research Affiliate at the Institute for Science, Innovation & Society (InSIS) in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Oxford.

Tanja's resesearch is situated at the intersection of STS and economic sociology/market studies. Her primary research interest centres on how agency, accountability and autonomy are reconfigured in a digital society.

Her research spans topics as diverse as the neuro-turn in the social sciences and humanities, digital activism, market-making and valuation practices, sustainable food consumption, digital health, and FoodTech and the financialisation of innovation.

Tanja is first editor of Digital Food Activism (2018), a groundbreaking edited volume that investigates how digital media technologies are transforming food activism and consumers' engagements with food, eating, and food systems, which has significantly contributed to initiating a new subfield of food studies – digital food studies.

Between 2020 and 2024 Tanja was Principal Investigator of a Swiss National Science Foundation funded research project entitled FoodCoach. Together with an interdisciplinary team spanning computer science, information studies and Science and Technology Studies at ETH Zürich and the University of St. Gallen and project partners in South Korea, she studied the societal implications of dietary monitoring and intervention.

Tanja's current book project, Venture Food, explores the valuation of FoodTech innovations, including plant-based milk and meat alternatives, and shows how sustainability frameworks are mobilized to make these innovations valuable to investors and other stakeholders.

Her research has been published in Science, Technology & Human Values; Science as Culture; The Sociological Review, Journal of Cultural Economy; BioSocieties; Information, Communication & Society;  Geoforum; Journal of Consumer Culture; Consumption, Markets & Culture; Health Sociology Review; European Journal of Marketing; and Journal of Marketing Management. Tanja also has experience with co-editing special issues in the Journal of Cultural Economy (forthcoming), European Journal of Marketing (2018) and BioSocieties (2015). 

Expertise related to UN Sustainable Development Goals

In 2015, UN member states agreed to 17 global Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) to end poverty, protect the planet and ensure prosperity for all. This person’s work contributes towards the following SDG(s):

  • SDG 3 - Good Health and Well-being
  • SDG 9 - Industry, Innovation, and Infrastructure
  • SDG 12 - Responsible Consumption and Production
  • SDG 16 - Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions

Education/Academic qualification

PhD, University of Sydney

Award Date: 19 Dec 2008

External positions

Associate Professor of Technology Studies, School of Humanities and Social Sciences, University of St. Gallen

1 Aug 201931 Jan 2024

Research Affiliate, Institute for Science, Innovation & Society (InSIS), School of Anthropology & Museum Ethnography, University of Oxford

1 Nov 2015 → …

Keywords

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  • Science and Technology Studies (STS)
  • Social Studies of Markets
  • Valuation Studies
  • Critical Data Studies
  • Food Studies
  • Ethnography
  • Digital Health
  • Governance and accountability

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