Academic
Contexts
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In scientific projects in academic contexts, the research I participate in generally revolves around learning, knowledge-creation, innovation, and curricular design in higher education or adult learning, as well as educational technologies and human-technology interaction. I am usually involved from the very beginning (e.g. research planning phase or writing up a project proposal for external grants/funding) to the end (e.g. project end and final reports, publication of scientific articles). However, I am often also just involved in the data analysis phase. In such projects, I generally am the "data and methods person". This may include coming up with an empirical research design and methodology, conducting the empirical research, and analysing and interpreting the data.
The methods I use depend on the phenomenon that is of interest to the project, but generally involve qualitative (e.g. open interviews in ethnographic or grounded theory research settings), quantitive (survey/questionnaire construction and its statistical analysis), or data science methods (e.g. social media sentiment analysis). Whenever feasibly and adequate, I combine these methods ("mixed methods" approach) to be able to approach, analyse, and understand a specific phenomenon on different levels of abstraction: from "small-scale" and in-depth qualitative analysis to "large-scale" or "big data" analysis via e.g. natural language processing and sentiment analysis models, as well as all kinds of statistical methods and models "in-between". This has the advantage of approaching a topic from the theory/hypothesis-generating and the theory/hypothesis-testing side.
My Approach
Memberships, Projects, Publications
I am a founder and member of the research group OCKO ("Organising Cognition in Knowing Organisations", located at the University of Vienna.
The focus of OCKO revolves around learning, knowledge creation, innovation, and change in educational, research, and organizational/work settings. We view these settings (e.g., universities, companies) as organizations that are capable of creating knowledge (i.e., knowing organizations). The structures or environments of these organisations can be identified, activated, changed, manipulated, or intentionally designed (i.e., through organizing cognition) in order to support such processes of knowledge creation and learning.
Our approach is based on the theoretical perspectives generally referred to as 4E (i.e., embodied, embedded, extended, enactive) and 4EA (& affective) cognition, as well as the concept of cognitive institutions (i.e., organizations as socially extended cognitive systems). Our research is based on theoretical and applied cognitive sciences, philosophy of science, social sciences, educational sciences, organizational theory, and innovation studies. We employ a wide range of approaches and methods on different levels of research, ranging from theoretical to applied research. Our main methodology is action research.
