Sebastian Linke

Researcher
PhD

Room:  F310
Tel:      +46 31 786 4754
Mobile: +46 735736703
E-mail: sebastian.linke@sts.gu.se

SEBASTIAN LINKE is a research fellow in the unit for Science and Technology Studies at the Department of Sociology. He received an interdisciplinary academic education at the Universities of Jena, Bielefeld and Berlin (MA in Biology in 2000 at the Free University of Berlin; PhD in 2005 in History of Science at the University of Jena in Germany).

Teaching and tutoring
Sebastian has interdisciplinary teaching experience extending from the natural sciences to the social sciences. He previously taught ecology to undergraduate students, but is now teaching in the field of science and policy relations in various courses e.g. environmental movements and environmental politics at the University of Gothenburg and Integrated Coastal Zone Management at Åbo-Akademy/Finland.

Specialist Fields
His research interests include the relationship between science, politics and society, with a particular emphasis on the public communication of science. In his thesis he studied the relationship between science and the media, with a case study of the biosciences.
- Relationship between Lay/Expert Knowledge
- Science Policy Studies (focus on fisheries & maritime management)
- Public Understanding of Science/ Science and the Media
Current research
His current research focuses on the role of science in environmental politics, combining approaches from Science and Technology Studies, Science Communication and Human Ecology. A detailed case study investigates the relationship between lay and expert knowledge in fisheries management at different levels, extending from local/regional to international/global experiences. New approaches to “participatory governance” deployed in this domain are of central research interest.

Selected Publications
Linke S. (2010) Governance als Tragödie: Das Europäische Fischereimanagement und die Rolle der Wissenschaft in internationalen Umweltregimen (Governance as a Tragedy: European Fisheries Management and the Role of Science in Environmental Regimes) in: Morisse-Schilbach, M. and Halfmann, J. eds. Wissen, Wissenschaft und Global Commons. Konturen eines interdisziplinären Forschungsfeldes, Series Internationale Beziehungen Baden-Baden: Nomos.

Linke S. (forthcoming) Science and policy in European fisheries management: reassessing the interface from different theoretical perspectives. Under submission Environmental Science and Policy.

Linke S. and Dreyer M. (forthcoming) The Regional Advisory Councils: What is their potential to incorporate stakeholder knowledge into fisheries governance? Accepted for special issue of AMBIO.

Linke, S. (forthcoming) Cultural boundaries of public science: How Sociobiology was (not) reported in the German Press. Public Understanding of Science.

Linke S. (2008) The Governance of Fisheries Management in the Baltic Sea: Conflicting or Converging Knowledge Systems between Science, Fisheries and NGO’s? Berlin Conference on the Human Dimensions of Global Environmental Change “Long-Term Policies: Governing Social-Ecological Change”. Available at: http://web.fu-berlin.de/ffu/akumwelt/bc2008/papers/
bc2008_414_Linke-EtAl.pdf

Linke S. (2008) The Co-Production of Science and Policy in Environmental Regimes. A Theoretical Framework to study the Role of Science in Fisheries Governance (Baltic Sea). In: ICES WGFS Report, Resource Management Committee ICES CM 2008/RMC:07, 23-24.

Linke, S. (2007)* Darwins Erben in den Medien. Eine wissenschafts- und mediensoziologische Fallstudie zur Renaissance der Soziobiologie. transcript Verlag, Bielefeld 260 pp. (revised Dissertation).