Twitter

I deleted the twitter feed on this page, however, everyone is very welcome to follow me on twitter, just search for tinahoermann…

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I just noticed that the last entry here is even older than my last twitter one, it’s a shame, I should really start doing something about it…
However I thought to get rid of my webpage as first of all I never ever or better to say rarely update it and second who needs a webpage [...]

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Summer School on Ethics of Converging Technologies

This autumn was packed with interesting seminars, workshops and a summer school in a cold and rainy place in Germany. Although the summer bit was missing, the ethicschool proved to be very interesting, offering excellent lectures and left room for discussions and networking….

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Presentations 2008 – PCST 10: Bridges to the future

This June I was accepted to present a paper at the PCST 10 conference in Malmo, Sweden. The conference focussed on how public communication of science and technology can contribute to society’s awareness of the challenges and opportunities that science and technology present.
The conference included seminars and presentations on four sub-themes:
Emerging issues in [...]

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Presentations 2008 – poster presentation in Paisley

t has been quite a while since the uws poster presentation in May 2008, but now I finally publish the poster here! Looking back it was quite an enjoyable event, as it was more than intersting to see what other postgraduate researchers are doing in more detail and there was a range of quite outstanding [...]

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Finally, the first post for 2008:
Last Friday I gave a presentation at the annual meeting (TR-Jahrestreffen) at the University of Applied Sciences in Hannover, it was followed by quite a constructive discussion and I especially enjoyed meeting former colleagues and friends!

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Responsible NanoCode

In November 2006, the Royal Society, Insight Investment and the Nanotechnology Industries Association (NIA) came together to explore the societal and economic impact of the technical, social and commercial uncertainties related to nanotechnologies. These three partners where later joined by the Nanotechnology Knowledge Transfer Network and these four “founding” partners involved experts from various backgrounds: [...]

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Nanomedicine…hype? Or a real revolution in healthcare?

After Bremen, I will then be heading to London to attend a public debate on nanomedicine, which is organised by the Institute of Nanotechnology. Again, I look forward to attending and I am sure that this debate will be a very good chance to meet new interesting people (the panel of invited speakers obviously promises [...]

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