Month: August 2026

Teaching a PhD Seminar on Digitalization, AI and Welfare at the University of Neuchâtel

I am very happy to be teaching the PhD seminar Digitalization, AI and Welfare: An STS Perspective on Social Work at the University of Neuchâtel this coming semester. The seminar is part of the doctoral teaching context in Current Issues in Social Work and is open to PhD researchers from the ITTS (Institut transdisciplinaire de […]

Machine-Mediated Theorizing: Our New Preprint on GenAI and Grounded Theory

Across the social sciences, the use of generative AI (GenAI) in qualitative research is currently being discussed with remarkable intensity. The debate is often polarized. While some emphasize the possibilities of GenAI for methodological innovation, others reject its use in reflexive qualitative research altogether (Jowsey et al. 2025). A recent open letter, for example, argues […]