Current positions

Deputy speaker of the Work and technology topic within the “Humans and Technology” focus of the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT)
Member of the ethics committee of the research group: “Dorfgemeinschaft 2.0 – Das Alter im ländlichen Raum”
Coordinator for teaching Technology Assessment at KIT

Fields of work

Technological innovations and their impacts on working structures
Concepts of the man-machine relation
Theory and methods of technology assessment
Sociological theories of modernity

Current projects

Exploring Mechanisms of “Knowledge Production in Modern Societies” within a Line of International Graduate Summer Schools
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Artificial Intelligence for Working and Learning in the Karlsruhe Region (KARL)
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Overarching KIT 2025 strategy: Human resources – Subproject 7: Visions of future work
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Kopernikus: SynErgie Cluster VI: Augsburg model region – models of organizational development with a view to fluctuating energy supply
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NoWa – Norms in the light of demographic change
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Work and technology
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Interdisciplinary International Graduate Summer School “RRI and Future-Making: Responsibility through Anticipation”
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Professional background

1991 - 1992	Member of scientific staff 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	Member of scientific staff 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	Member of scientific staff at ITAS (formerly AFAS); temporarily working at the Office of Technology Assessment at the German Bundestag TAB
2009 - 2013	Deputy Head of research area Knowledge society and knowledge policy
2013 - 2019	Co-Head of research area Knowledge society and knowledge policy
2015	PhD thesis on “Strategies of individualization”, supervised by Prof. Dr. Birgit Blättel-Mink and Prof. Dr. Tilla Siegel, Goethe University Frankfurt

2015

Recent publications

2022

Book Chapters

Krings, B. J.; Weinberger, N.
Digitalisierung und die Pflege von alten Menschen
2022. Digitalisierung und Gesundheit. Hrsg.: A. Manzei-Gorsky, 207–232, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748922933-207

Journal Articles

Krings, B.-J.; Hausstein, A.
Mensch - Technik - Welt : Resonanz als Reflexionsrahmen für digital vermittelte Weltbeziehungen [Humans - Technology - World : Resonance as a framework for reflection of a digitally mediated relation to the world]
2022. Österreichische Zeitschrift für Soziologie, 47, 359–377. doi:10.1007/s11614-022-00506-y

Moniz, A. B.; Krings, B.-J.
“Manufacturing Life” in Real Work Processes? New Manufacturing Environments with Micro and Nanorobotics
2022. Nanoethics, 16, 115–131. doi:10.1007/s11569-021-00406-7

2021

Book Chapters

Böschen, S.; Grunwald, A.; Krings, B.-J.; Rösch, C.
TA auf „offener See“
2021. Technikfolgenabschätzung. Hrsg.: S. Böschen, 467–480, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748901990-467

Böschen, S.; Grunwald, A.; Krings, B.-J.; Rösch, C.
Technikfolgenabschätzung – neue Zeiten, neue Aufgaben
2021. Technikfolgenabschätzung. Hrsg.: S. Böschen, 13–40, Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748901990-13

Krings, B.-J.; Weinberger, N.
Who cares about care? Vier Thesen zum Diskurs über Technik in der Pflege
2021. Neue Technologien für die Pflege. Grundlegende Reflexionen und pragmatische Befunde. Hrsg.: M. Hülsken-Giesler, 135–152, V & R unipress. doi:10.14220/9783737012027.135

Nierling, L.; Krings, B.-J.
National context: Germany
2021. Moniz, António Brandão; Boavida, Nuno; Makó, Csaba; Krings, Bettina-Johanna; Sanz de Miguel, Pablo (Hg.): Digital Labour Platforms. Representing Workers in Europe, 9–13, Húmus/CICS.NOVA

Nierling, L.; Krings, B.-J.
Digitalisation and concepts of extended work
2021. Post-Growth Work: employment and meaningful activities within planetary boundaries. Ed. by: Irmi Seidl and Angelika Zahrnt, 134–146, Routledge. doi:10.4324/9781003187370-15

Books

Böschen, S.; Grunwald, A.; Krings, B.-J.; Rösch, C. (Eds.)
Technikfolgenabschätzung : Handbuch für Wissenschaft und Praxis
2021. Nomos Verlagsgesellschaft. doi:10.5771/9783748901990

Journal Articles

Bröckerhoff, P.; Evers-Wölk, M.; Sonk, M.; Pein, K.; Weinberger, N.; Krings, B.-J.; Woopen, C.
Bedarfe der Gesundheitsversorgung : Biografische und kulturelle Vielfalt beachten
2021. Deutsches Ärzteblatt <Köln> / C, 118 (42), A-1924 / B-1587

El-Haouzi, H. B.; Valette, E.; Krings, B.-J.; Moniz, A. B.
Social dimensions in cps & iot based automated production systems
2021. Societies, 11 (3), Art.-Nr.: 98. doi:10.3390/soc11030098

Krings, B.-J.; Moniz, A. B.; Frey, P.
Technology as enabler of the automation of work? Current societal challenges for a future perspective of work
2021. Revista Brasileira de Sociologia, 9 (21), 206–229. doi:10.20336/rbs.806

List of publications at ITAS

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