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Dr. Charlotte Rungius, MA BSc

Section: Research Policy & Development

Function: Scientific project manager

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Work and research focus:

Scientific project manager - GSF 12 "European Science Diplomacy Agenda"

European science policy, science diplomacy, societal impact of research, social studies of social sciences, science and technology studies, qualitative social research, science communication, peace and conflict studies, international relations and foreign affairs.

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Other Publications:

A. Müller, T. Flink, E. Piaget, C. Rungius, M. Young, M. Josten, N. Meyer, and GCSE (2023): From Science to Policy. Translating Scientific Knowledge into Policy-Making Processes for the Environment. Handbook for an interactive seminar on postgraduate level.

Rungius, C., & Pauls, C. (2022). Reflexivität als methodologischer Imperativ: Herausforderungen und Grenzen für die Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. In Gulowski, R. & Zöhrer, M. (Hrsg.): Forschung für Frieden. Perspektiven sozialwissenschaftlicher Konfliktforschung. Nomos Verlag: Baden-Baden, 89-111.

Rungius, C. (2021). The NWO Impact Outlook Approach. Navigating Societal Impact: Case Study, Berlin.

Rungius, C., Flink, T. & Launhardt, V. (2021). The Societal Impact of Research: Results from an Online Survey. Navigating Societal Impact: Survey Report, Berlin.

Rungius, C., Flink, T. & Riedel, S. (2021). SESAME – a synchrotron light source in the Middle East: an international research infrastructure in the making. In Open Research Europe 1:51.

Rungius, C. & Flink, T. (2020). Romancing Science for Global Solutions: On Narratives and Interpretative Schemas of Science Diplomacy. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications, 7/1, 1-10. 

Young, M., Rungius, C., Aukes, E., Melchor, L., Dall, E., Černovská, E., ... & Moreno, A. E. (2020). The 'Matters' of Science Diplomacy: Transversal Analysis of the S4D4C Case Studies. S4D4C. Prag, Berlin, Madrid, Twente, Paris, Wien: Selbstverlag. 

Rungius, C. (2020). SESAME - a synchrotron light source in the Middle East: an international research infrastructure in the making. In Young, M., Flink, T., & Dall, E. (Hrsg.), Science Diplomacy in the Making: Case-based insights from the S4D4C project. S4D4C. Berlin, Prag, Wien: Selbstverlag, 216-253.

Rungius, C., & Weller, C. (2019). Außenpolitikberatung als post-positivistischer Forschungsgegenstand: Zur Konstitution wissenschaftlicher Politikberatung in der Politikwissenschaft. Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft 29/2 (1 June 2019): 307–24.  

Degelsegger-Márquez, A., Flink, T., & Rungius, C. (2019). What it takes to do science diplomacy. Practices, identities, needs and challenges of science diplomacy practitioners. Baseline analysis and needs assessment. Deliverable 2.3, S4D4C. Wien: Selbstverlag.

Rungius, C. (2018). A Conceptual Framework: An internal working paper defining the conceptual framework for the case studies. S4D4C Deliverable 2.5, Internal Working Paper, Berlin, Innsbruck, Vienna: Selbstverlag.

Rungius, C. (2018). Elicitive Ansätze in der Friedens- und Konfliktforschung. Blogbeitrag für Lehrgut.hypotheses.org

Flink, T. & Rungius, C. (2018). Science Diplomacy in the European Union: Practices and Prospects. S4D4C Policy Brief No. 1., Vienna, Berlin, Innsbruck: Selbstverlag.  

Rungius, C. (2018). State-of-the-art report: summarizing literature on science diplomacy cases and concepts. S4D4C. Vienna, Berlin, Innsbruck: Selbstverlag.

Rungius, C./Schneider, E./Weller, C. (2018). Resilienz - Macht - Hoffnung: Der Resilienzbegriff als diskursive Verarbeitung einer verunsichernden Moderne, in: Karidi, Maria/Schneider, Martin/ Gutwald, Rebecca (Hrsg.): Resilienz. Interdisziplinäre Perspektiven zu Wandel und Transformation, Wiesbaden: Springer, 33-59.

Weller, C. & Rungius, C. (2017). Reflexive Politikberatung. Wandel erforschen und gestalten, in: Bayerischer Forschungsverbund ForChange (Hrsg.): Ergebnisse und Handlungsempfehlungen, München 2017, 30-31.

Rungius, C. (2017). TTIP und die transatlantischen Beziehungen in einer geo-ökonomischen Weltordnung, in: Roos, Ulrich (Hrsg.): Deutsche Außenpolitik. Arenen, Diskurse und grundlegende Handlungsregeln, Wiesbaden: Springer, 49-87.

Roos, U. & Rungius, C. (2016). Neue Macht, neue Mächte, gute Gründe? Rekonstruktion einer außenpolitischen Diskursoffensive in Deutschland, Zeitschrift für Außen- und Sicherheitspolitik (ZfAS), 1/2016, 39-78.

Rungius, C. (2013). Eine gleichgültige Gesellschaft? Obamas Kritik an einem selbstgefälligen Deutschland, Welttrends Online-Kommentar.

 

 

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Education and career:

Charlotte works as a senior project manager at ZSI, specializing in EU/EC-related science policy projects with a focus on science diplomacy and international science policy.

She holds a B.Sc. in economics (macroeconomics) from the University of Mannheim and Bilkent University, Ankara (Turkey). During her M.A. she specialized in International Relations and in the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge and graduated in Peace and Conflict Studies from Augsburg University and the School of International Service (SIS), American University in Washington, DC. She earned a Ph.D. in science studies from the University of Augsburg (Faculty of Philosophy and Social Sciences), with research stays at the University of Innsbruck (Austria) and Humboldt University in Berlin.

During her M.A., she spent a year in Washington, DC, where she worked at the German Embassy and the Federation of American Scientists (FAS) at a terrorism analysis project. From 2014 to 2018, Charlotte served as a researcher and lecturer at the Chair for Political Science, Peace, and Conflict Studies at the University of Augsburg.

Between 2018 and 2021, she was a team member of the EU Horizon 2020 science diplomacy project (S4D4C), associated with the German Centre for Higher Education Research and Science Studies (DZHW) in Berlin. She then worked at Humboldt University in Berlin and the Robert Merton Center for Science Studies (RMZ) from 2021 to 2022, focusing on the societal impact of research and national impact policies. Charlotte was trained as a mediator in Germany, as a meditation trainer in Austria and served as an academic trainer in CIMIC simulations with the Austrian Armed Forces as part of the M.A. programme for peace studies at the University of Innsbruck, before joining ZSI in 2023.

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