Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - RMZ

Researcher

• Vita
• Research Interests
• Research Projects
• Publications
• Talks

Vita

As a researcher in the “DISAPEER” project since September 2024, Sarah Wendt examines social configurations and practices in research assessment, especially in the academic publishing system and peer review processes. Her focus is on qualitative social research, epistemic diversity and (historically grown) power relations within academia.

Sarah studied Global Studies at Humboldt University Berlin, University of Pretoria, Jawaharlal Nehru University New Delhi and FLACSO Argentina. The various places, institutions and local and global collectives in which she was and is involved, especially with regard to the decolonization of knowledge, shape her understanding of concepts of epistemic justice and epistemic diversity. From 2022 to 2024 she worked at the BIH QUEST Center for Responsible Research at the Charité - Universitätsmedizin Berlin on the evaluation of programs for the transformation of biomedical research and global health, as well as on topics related to open science and reproducibility of research.

Research Interests

• Science Studies

• Research Integrity

• Global Health

• Feminist and decolonial Theory

• Epistemic Justice & Diversity

• Inter- and transdisciplinarity

Research Projects

2024-2028

• Disapeer: The reconfiguration of peers in editorial review

Publications

2023

• Schlegel, A. & Wendt, S. (2023). „Solidarity and Care during the Dawn of the COVID-19 Pandemic: Towards Relationality in Collective Learning.” In Humanities and Social Sciences Perspectives on COVID-19, Africa Century Editions Press. https://acepress.co.za/product/humanities-and-social-sciences-perspectives-on-covid-19-e-book/

Talks

2024

• Herrero, M.B. & Wendt, S.P. (2024, September). Conceptos, poder y geopolítica: un análisis desde el campo de la salud internacional. Vortrag bei der Tagung ‘Democracia y Desigualdades’ (Demokratie und Ungleichheiten), Universidad Nacional José C. Paz, Buenos Aires.
• Wendt, S.P. (2024, Juli). The Power of Concepts - The Debate about Global Health and International Health and its Implications for the Governance of the COVID-19 Crisis. Vortrag auf der Jahreskonferenz der European Association of Social Anthropology (EASA), Universitat de Barcelona, Barcelona.
• Wendt, S.P. (2024, Juni). Conceptualising the global dimension of Responsible Research and Innovation through a decolonial lens – Reflections from a Summer School. Vortrag auf der Konferenz World Conference of Research Integrity (WCRI), Athen.
• Dhakal, S. & Wendt, S.P. (2024, Mai). Epistemic Violence - Countering Neocolonialism in Science. Workshop beim PhD-Tag des Potsdam Institut für Klimafolgenforschung.

2023

• Dhakal, S. & Wendt, S.P. (2023, Dezember). Health Policy: Development Discourses, (Post-and De-)colonial Theory - on Epistemic Violence. Seminar im MSc International Health an der Charité – Universitätsmedizin Berlin.
• Wendt, S.P. (2023, November). Is there really a knowledge gap? Lightning Talk bei der virtuellen Unconference ‘The Impact of Diversity on Research Quality: Exploring the Knowledge Gap’, gemeinsame Veranstaltung des BIH Quest Center for Responsible Research, Berlin University Alliance, Alexander von Humboldt Foundation und Einstein-Stiftung Berlin.

2022

• Wendt, S.P. (2022, September). La pandemia y el poder epistemológico – el debate sobre el uso de salud global y salud internacional y sus implicancias para la gobernanza de la crisis del COVID-19. Vortrag bei der Tagung ‘Democracia y Desigualdades’ (Demokratie und Ungleichheiten), Universidad Nacional José C. Paz, Buenos Aires.

2021

• Schlegel, A. & Wendt, S.P. (2021, Juli). Decelerating Education. Vortrag bei der virtuellen Konferenz ‘Degrowth Conference: Building Alternative Livelihoods in Times of Ecological and Political Crisis’, University of Manchester.