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Eco-driven chemical research in the boundary between academia and industry: PhD students' views on science and society
Malmö högskola, Faculty of Education and Society (LS), Department of Nature, Environment and Society (NMS).ORCID iD: 0000-0002-3083-1716
2013 (English)In: Science & Education, ISSN 0926-7220, E-ISSN 1573-1901, Vol. 22, no 10, p. 2427-2441Article in journal (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

This paper examines and discusses the views on science and society held among PhD students working in two different industrially and environmentally driven research programmes in the broad area of green chemistry. It is based on thirteen in-depth interviews. The analysis shows three main ways of handling the situation as “post-academic” PhD student: (1) the student sees the PhD work mainly as a job and does not reflect about his/her research or the research funding, (2) the student is satisfied with the post-academic situation, accepts the established innovation policy discourse and is sceptical to traditional academic research, and (3) the student sees collaborative research programmes as a way to get funding, which can be used for secretly done basic research. Most PhD students either emphasise usefulness—in line with the dominating research policy discourse—or they adopt the positivistic view of science as objective and independent of the surrounding society. However, there are only a few signs of “double problematisation”, that is a critical view where both disciplinary-oriented and industry-dependent research are problematised.

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Springer, 2013. Vol. 22, no 10, p. 2427-2441
Keywords [en]
Commercialized science, Post-academic science, University-industry interfaces, Education for Sustainable Development (ESD), Green Chemistry, Doctoral students, Identity development, Critical thinking, Critical scientific literacy, Bildung
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Engineering and Technology
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URN: urn:nbn:se:mau:diva-3766DOI: 10.1007/s11191-012-9490-4ISI: 000325078200004Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-84884799848Local ID: 14994OAI: oai:DiVA.org:mau-3766DiVA, id: diva2:1400574
Available from: 2020-02-28 Created: 2020-02-28 Last updated: 2024-02-05Bibliographically approved

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