Yavuz Ülker, BA
I have been active at the Professorship for Science and Technology Studies at UCF for more than a year. During this time, I co-designed and co-taught the course “The Bicycle” as part of the Wissenschaft-Technologie-Gesellschaft teaching project. My earlier experience as teaching assistant and tutor at UCF goes back an additional year.
My background is rooted in social sciences. I hold a BA in Liberal Arts and Science with a major in Governance. As part of my studies, I also completed an Erasmus+ exchange year at the University Of Warwick, where I had courses focusing on sustainability studies and political science. Currently, I am pursuing a master’s degree in Environmental Governance at the University of Freiburg.
My academic interest twofold: first, I am interested in exploring how different technologies establish and shape power dynamics in workplaces. My bachelor’s thesis is a semi-systematic literature review depicting how STS scholars discuss the effects of automation technologies in the workplace. I am keen on conducting empirical work on how bicycle couriers and platform work in the future. Secondly, I am interested in exploring how the domains of scientific expertise and policy-making converge. Specifically, how political interests are negotiated in global organizations such as IPCC and IPBES. In this topic, I discover the concepts of co-production, knowledge brokering, and boundary work. Another domain I am willing to apply these concepts in city planning, especially sustainable mobility transformation.