Sociology of science
Science and Technology Studies
Organizational sociology
Higher education research
Sociology of Media
Methods of qualitative social research

2023-2024 Research assistant in the Level 1 project on the relationship between science and the public in the digital transformation, JGU Mainz
2020-2023 Associate member of the DFG research unit “Practicing Evidence – Evidencing Practice”, sub-project “The Evidence Culture of Citizen Science” JGU Mainz
2020-2023 Research assistant (doctorate) at the Research Training Group “Science management and science communication as research-based practices of science system development” of Otto von Guericke University Magdeburg, Institute for Higher Education Research (HoF) Halle-Wittenberg and German University of Administrative Sciences Speyer
2019-2020 Research assistant in the BMBF project “SoCiS: Social Citizen Science to answer questions about the future”, Institute for Higher Education Research (HoF) Halle-Wittenberg
2018-2020 Associate Member, ExCiteS Extreme Citizen Science Action Research Group, UCL London (Prof. Dr. Muki Haklay)
2016-2019 Research associate and operational management of the H2020 project “DITOS – Doing-it-Together Science”, European Citizen Science Association office at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
2016-2019 Guest researcher, Museum für Naturkunde Berlin (Dr. Katrin Vohland)
2014-2016 Research Associate at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, Leibniz Institute for Evolution and Biodiversity Research
since 2020Doctorate Sociology, JGU Mainz
2020-2022Founding and leading the Community of Practice “Citizen Science & Open Science” at Citizen Science Global Partnership in an advisory capacity for the development of the UNESCO Recommendation on Open Science
since 2018Foundation and management of the work group “Empowerment, Inclusiveness & Equity in Citizen Science and Community-Based Research” as a joint institution of the Living Knowledge Network and the European Citizen Science Association
2017-2018Coordination of the partnership between the Museum für Naturkunde, Berlin and the Fellow Program “Freies Wissen” of Wikimedia Deutschland and Stifterverband
2016-2020Member of the Management Committee, COST Action CA15212 “Citizen Science to promote creativity, scientific literacy & innovation throughout Europe”
2015-2017Member of the work group “Co-design, co-production & co-dissemination in Future Earth: conceptual frame & technical standards” of the German Future Earth Committee
2014-2016Management of the European Citizen Science Association ECSA e.V. at the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin
2012-2014Founding and spokesperson of the Interdisciplinary Network for Junior Researchers in Science and Technology INSIST
2011-2013Foundation of and employee in the student project group “WhatAboutScience?” for teaching, research & exhibitions on digital science, Bielefeld University
2009-2013Master’s degree in History, Philosophy and Sociology of Science / Études sur les sciences (very good), Institute for Science and Technology Studies, University of Bielefeld & École Normale Supérieure, Paris
2006-2009Bachelor of Arts in European Studies (very good), Otto-von-Guericke University Magdeburg, Department of Civics and Politics at University of Mumbai (08/2008 – 01/2009)
2019COST Research Fellow, Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences, Innovations, Sociétés (LISIS), Université Paris-Est Marne-la-Vallée (Prof. Dr. Pierre Benoit Joly), Paris (11/2019)
2018Mentee, Mozilla Open Leaders Program
2013-2014Fellow, UNESCO Regional Office for Science in Latin America and the Caribbean, Montevideo, Carlo-Schmid-Program of DAAD & Studienstiftung
2007-2012Scholarship holder, German National Academic Foundation for B.A. and M.A.
2012Young Talent Award “Innovative Interdisciplinary Project” from Bielefeld University and Bielefeld University of Applied Sciences, for student project group “WhatAboutScience?”
DGS Sections Science and Technology Studies, Section Organizational Sociology, Working Group Science and Higher Education Research
European Association for the Study of Science and Technology (EASST)
Society for Science and Technology Studies (GWTF)
Society for higher education research (GfHf)

Claudia Göbel
Institute of Sociology
Working Group Media Sociology & Social Theory
Isaac-Fulda-Allee 2b
D-55124 Mainz
Room 02-263
Mail: clgoebel@uni-mainz.de

Office hours by appointment by e-mail.
04/2024Making and doing STS on, with and through Citizen Science,STS and Citizen Science Colloquium, STS Department, University of Vienna
09/2023How is strategic communication organized? Opening science organizations to new audiences with Citizen Science, State of the Art Conference of the Center for Science Management Speyer “Communicating Strategically as a Scientific Institution”, Potsdam
12/2022Grades on Contributorship based on the case of Citizen Science, International Conference on Organizational Sociology (ICOS) “Organizations in a Plural Society”, Trondheim, Norway
12/2022Crossing Open Participatory Research with Intersectional Feminism, Panelist in “Transnational Feminist Dialogues on Openness in Science” with Selene Yang, Sabina Leonelli, Margherita von Brentano Centre for Gender Studies, Freie Universität Berlin
06/2022Keynote: Reflections ondigital public engagement, Living Knowledge Conference, Living Knowledge Network, University of Groningen
06/2022Citizen Science. Recent developments in participatory research and links to the SDGs , SDGnexus Network, ZEU University of Giessen, Seminar Lecture Series
11/2021All-inclusion and democratization. Citizen science as a science policy inclusion program , with Sascha Dickel and Michael Kitzing, Annual Conference of the Society for Science and Technology Studies GWTF
11/2021How to grasp cooperation in CSS projects beyond invited and uninvited participation? Reflections based on an empirical study on CSS in Germany , University of Gothenburg, Webinar
02/2021Social Citizen Science in Germany. Putting results from the SoCiS project into perspective , together with Justus Henke, ITA Learning Lunch, BMBF
11/2020What is in participatory research for open GLAM?, Panelist in “Citizen Science & GLAM”, Festival Retas Budaya, Goethe-Institut Indonesia
10/2020Citizen Science – building block of a post-disciplinary scientific culture?, Workshop, Schader Foundation, Robert Bosch Foundation, Furtwangen University, Darmstadt
06/2019Why science needs citizen participation, evening lecture at Furtwangen University’s studium generale program
03/2019Keynote: Participatory Research: Extending Open Science beyond the ivory tower, Open Science Barcamp Berlin, Leibniz Research Alliance Open Science, Open Science Lab German National Library of Science and Technology (TIB)
05/2018Keynote: Ciencia ciudadana en Europa. Paisaje actual y reflexiones, 2ndo Encuentro de Ciencia Ciudadana en Chile, Universidad Autonoma de Chile, Santiago
07/2017Keynote: Open Citizen Science, Dagstuhl Seminar “Citizen Science: Design and Engagement”, Schloss Dagstuhl
2022Claudia Göbel, Sylvi Mauermeister, Justus Henke: Citizen Social Science in Germany-cooperation beyond invited and uninvited participation. Humanities and Social Sciences Communications 9, 193 (2022).
https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-022-01198-1.
2021Göbel, C. (2021) Citizen Sciences als Format Öffentlicher Gesellschaftswissenschaften. In: Selke S., Neun O., Jende R., Lessenich S., Bude H. (eds) Handbuch Öffentliche Soziologie. Öffentliche Wissenschaft und gesellschaftlicher Wandel. Springer VS, Wiesbaden.
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-658-16991-6_31-1.
2021Göbel, C., Ottolini, L., Schulze, A. (2021): Science as a Lever: The Roles and Power of Civil Society Organizations in Citizen Science, in: Vohland et al. (2021) (Eds): The Science of Citizen Science Handbook. Springer,
https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_17.
2021Vohland, K., Göbel, C., et al. (2021): Citizen Science in Europe, in: Vohland et al. (2021) (Eds): The Science of Citizen Science Handbook. Springer, https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-58278-4_3.
2020Sauermann, H., Vohland, K., Antoniou, V., Balázs, B., Göbel, C., et al. (2020): Citizen science and sustainability transitions. In: Research Policy 49 (5), https://doi.org/10.1016/j.respol.2020.103978.
2020Göbel, C., Henke, J., Mauermeister, S. (2020): Kultur und Gesellschaft gemeinsam erforschen. Überblick und Handlungsoptionen zu Citizen Science in den Geistes- und Sozialwissenschaften. (HoF-Handreichungen 14), unter Mitarbeit von Susann Hippler, Nicola Gabriel und Steffen Zierold, Institut für Hochschulforschung (HoF) an der Martin-Luther-Universität, Halle-Wittenberg 2020, 120 S.. https://www.hof.uni-halle.de/web/dateien/pdf/HoFHandreichungen14.pdf.
2019Göbel, Claudia, Nold, Christian, Berditchevskaia, Aleksandra, Haklay, Muki (2019) How Does Citizen Science “Do” Governance? Reflections from the DITOs Project. Citizen Science: Theory and Practice, 4(1): 31, pp. 1-13. https://doi.org/10.5334/cstp.204.
2018Mahr, D., Goebel, C., Irwin, A., Vohland, K. (2018): Watching or being watched. Enhancing productive discussion between the citizen sciences, the social sciences and the humanities, in: Hecker et al. (eds.): Citizen Science. Innovation in Open Science, Society and Policy, London: UCL Press.
2017Vohland, K., Göbel, C. (2017): Open Science und Citizen Science als symbiotische Beziehung?. TATuP Zeitschrift für Technikfolgenabschätzung in Theorie und Praxis, Karlsruhe, Jg. 26, Nr. 1-2, S. 18-24, Aug. 2017. ISSN 2199-9201. https://doi.org/10.14512/tatup.26.1-2.18.