Anita Thaler

MMag.a Dr.in Anita Thaler

Schlögelgasse 2, 8010 Graz
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Anita Thaler is a senior researcher at the IFZ and heads the Gender, Science and Technology research area and the Queer STS working group. She studied psychology (certified work- and organisational psychologist), educational science and women's and gender studies at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz and the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt. She was awarded the Gabriele-Possanner-Förderungspreis 2007 by the Federal Ministry of Science and Research for her dissertation “Berufsziel Technikerin?”. In 2021, she received the Käthe Leichter Award for Women's Studies, Gender Studies and Equality in the World of Work, sponsored by the Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research.

Thaler teaches at the Karl-Franzens-University Graz and the Alpen-Adria-University Klagenfurt, among others, and regularly gives lectures in Austria and abroad.

In her national and international research, she examines interactions between technology, nature and society, taking into account intersectionality and social justice perspectives. Thaler is currently conducting research in the fields of biodiversity, medical technology and artificial intelligence, including an approach to diversity-sensitive, human-centered technology development.

Main fields of acitivity
  • Queer-feminist science and technology studies
  • Emancipatory potential of information and communication technologies (coding, social media, etc.)
  • Social gender justice in academia and research
  • Transdisciplinary and responsible research and innovation (RRI)
  • Socio-scientific research of innovation projects in the area of energy and food systems
  • Process and impact evaluation of educational measures, research projects and programmes
  • Science communication

Projects

until 2027

until 2025

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2024-2025

until 2024

until 2023

until 2022

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: March-September 2022

until 2021

until 2020

until 2019

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2017-2019

until 2017

until 2016

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2013-2016

until 2015

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2014-2015

until 2014

until 2013

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2012-2013
Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2012-2013

until 2012

until 2011

until 2010

until 2009

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2008-2009
Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2007-2009

until 2008

until 2007

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2005-2007

until 2005

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2005-2006

until 2004

Gesamtprojektlaufzeit: 2003-2004

Publications