I’m delighted to share my book review of Claudia Liebelt’s Istanbul Appearances: Beauty and the Making of Middle-Class Femininities in Urban Turkey, now published in Contemporary Sociology. The book opens a window onto Istanbul’s “beautyscapes”- salons, clinics, everyday routines—showing how beauty work is tightly woven into class mobility, gendered respectability, and urban transformation. Rather than […]
Category: Medicine & Society
Published in Nature: Children must be co-researchers, too
I’m thrilled to share that my latest correspondence article is out in Nature. In it, I argue that children’s meaningful, age-appropriate participation should be central to the development and evaluation of health technologies. Children should be involved in health technologies not merely as “users,” but as citizen co-researchers. The article is available here: Şahinol M. […]
Reflections on a Citizen Science Award: A Path Shaped by Many Hands
I am deeply honored to have received the “Wissen der Vielen – Citizen Science Research Award” (3rd place) for my article: Melike Şahinol (2022): 3D-printed children’s prostheses as enabling technology? The experience of children with upper limb body differences. Journal of Enabling Technologies, 16 (3), 204–218. https://doi.org/10.1108/JET-02-2022-0017 This article was developed as part of my […]
Call for Papers: Disability, Technology and Change
Open Collection in NanoEthics – Submissions Now Open I am delighted to announce that I am co-editing an Open Collection in the journal NanoEthics on the topic “Disability, Technology and Change.” Together with Robert Stock (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin) and Magdalena Zdrodowska (Jagiellonian University, Kraków), we invite submissions that explore the complex and multifaceted relationships between […]
Circulating Instruments, Situated Contexts: Reflections from 4S Seattle
I had the pleasure of presenting our paper “Circulating Instruments, Situated Contexts” at the #4S2025 conference in Seattle in the panel “Imagination, Design, and Repercussions of Medical Technologies.” Our research looks at the global circulation of surgical instruments, tracing how materials, knowledge, and expertise move between Samsun (Türkiye), Tuttlingen (Germany), and Sialkot (Pakistan) and how […]
New Publication: Materializing Care – Children, 3D-Printed Prostheses, and Participatory Design
I am excited to share that my new Turkish-language article has been published in ODİTORYUM: Journal of Critical Social Sciences. This publication is part of my research within the project “Additive Manufacturing: Enabling Technologies in the Childhood“, which explores the social, material, and participatory dimensions of 3D-printed prostheses for children. The article “Bakımın Maddileşmesi: Çocuklar, […]
New Publication: Somatechnische Erfahrungen. Ethnographische Gespräche mit Kindern mit Prothesen aus dem 3D-Drucker
I’m pleased to share a chapter that is especially close to my heart and has just been published: Şahinol, M. (2025). Somatechnische Erfahrungen. Ethnographische Gespräche mit Kindern mit Prothesen aus dem 3D-Drucker. In: Stock, R., et al. Dis/Ability und digitale Medien. Springer VS, Wiesbaden. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-46724-1_9 This chapter examines the soma-technical experiences of children using 3D-printed […]
Exciting News: MediCluster Now Has Its Own Blog!
I’m happy to announce that our DFG-funded project MediCluster has launched its very own blog on Hypotheses.org! As the Principal Investigator, I am thrilled to see our vision of exploring global medical manufacturing practices—spanning Tuttlingen (Germany), Sialkot (Pakistan), and Samsun (Türkiye)—come to life and open up new opportunities for discussion. A huge shoutout to my […]
Exciting News: DFG Grant Approved!
I am delighted to share that I have received the official approval notification from the German Research Foundation (DFG) for the project “Manufacturing Practices of Medical Instruments in Innovation Clusters: A Comparative Study of Tuttlingen, Sialkot and Samsun” (project number: 551920228). This research is set to start in 2025 with a funding amount of > […]
Thrilled to Join Horizon Europe as an Expert Evaluator for the European Commission!
I am delighted to have been selected by the European Commission as an evaluator for the Horizon Europe program, specifically for the Marie Skłodowska-Curie Postdoctoral Fellowships (HORIZON MSCA-PF) 2024. As someone deeply involved in social studies of science, technology and society (#STS), this is a great opportunity to bring my expertise to the evaluation of […]