Nicole is a part-time Marie Curie Fellow at the Methodology Institute of the LSE. She also is assistant professor at Johannes Kepler University Linz, Austria. She has held visiting appointments at Kyoto University and at Cambridge University, and has taught at universities in Austria, Portugal, and Peru. Nicole received her PhD in Social Psychology from Vienna University, Austria. Her research interests include everyday moral reasoning, public perception of technologies, stereotypes and technology, and research methodology.

Current research projects

FP7: Sensitive Technologies and European Public Ethics (STEPE)
FP7: The Landscape and Isobars of European Values (Value Isobars)
GEN-AU: Communicating Synthetic Biology (COSY);

Selected recent publications

Kronberger, N., Holtz, P., Kerbe, W., Strasser, E., & Wagner, W. (2009). Communicating Synthetic Biology: From the Lab via the Media to the Broader Public. Systems and Synthetic Biology.
·Wagner, W., Kronberger, N., Nagata, M., Sen, R., Holtz, P., Flores Palacios, F. (forthcoming). An Essentialist Theory of “Hybrids”: From Animal Kinds to Ethnic Categories and Race. Asian Journal of Social Psychology.
Kronberger, N. (forthcoming). Qualitative Methods and Coding. Encyclopedia of Peace Psychology. Wiley-Blackwell.
·Kronberger, N. (2008). Moralities We Live By: Moral Focusing in the Context of Technological Change. In Sugiman, T., Gergen, K., & Wagner, W. (Eds.), Meaning in Action – Construction, Narratives and Representations. New York: Springer.
·Gaskell, G., Kronberger, N., Fischler, C., Hampel, J., & Lassen, J. (2008). Consumer perceptions of food products from cloned animals: A social scientific perspective. Report prepared for the European Food Safety Authority.
·Kronberger, N. & Wagner, W. (2007). Inviolable versus alterable identities: Culture, biotechnology and resistance. In G. Moloney and I. Walker (Eds), Social representations and identity: Content, process and power. Palgrave Macmillan, New York.

For further information see http://www.swp.jku.at/team/kronberger

Contact details

Room B811 +44 (0)20 79556812 n.kronberger1@lse.ac.uk

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