Dr. Dagmar Simon
Head of the Research Group
"Science Policy Studies", WZB
Phone: +49 30-25491-588
e-mail: [email protected]
Dr. Dagmar Simon is head of the WZB’s research group “Science Policy Studies” focusing on
empirical research in the fields of Evaluation Studies, Science Policy Studies, Analysis of
Organizations and Gender Studies.
Career
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since 2008
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2006 – 2007 Coordination of the Institute for Research Information and Quality Assurance
(iFQ)
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2004 – 2007 Coordination (with Andreas Knie) of the Project Group „Science Policy
Studies“, WZB
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1993 – 2008 Head of Research Planning and Internal Management, Department
“Research Coordination”, WZB
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1989 – 1993 Reader and scientific coordinator of the WZB
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1989 – 1997 Lector and editor at publishers and editorial departments of journals
Head of the Research Group "Science Policy Studies", WZB
Education
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1986
Ph. D. (Dr. rer. pol.) at the Department of Political Sciences at the Freie
Universität Berlin.
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1978
Diploma (Political Science)
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1973 – 1978
Continuation of the studies at the Department of Political Sciences of the
Freie Universität Berlin
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1972 – 1973
Study of Political Sciences and German Studies at the Johann Wolfgang
Goethe-Universität Frankfurt/Main
Board/Membership/Expert Activities (selected)
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since 2015
Speaker of the advisory board “Energieavantgarde Anhalt”
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since 2015
Member of the management committee COST-Action „European Network for
Research Evaluation in the Social Sciences and the Humanities”
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since 2009
Member of the working group “Forschungsorientierte
Gleichstellungsstandards”, German Research Foundation (DFG)
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since 2008
Member of the BBAW (Berlin-Brandenburg Academy of Sciences and
Humanities) interdisciplinary work group “Excellence Initiative”
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since 2009
Co-Editor of the journal “Leviathan”
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since 2008
Member of the advisory board of the Journal “WSI-Mitteilungen”.
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2014 - 2015
Member of the board of the project “Neue Wissenschaftskarrieren”, funded by
BMBF – Federal Ministry of Education and Research
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2013 – 2014
National expert at the working group “Research Institutions and Human
Resources” of the OECD
Selected recent publications:
Simon, Dagmar, Hornbostel, Stefan, Knie, Andreas, Zimmermann, Karin (Hg.) (2016): Handbuch
Wissenschaftspolitik, 2. Aktualisierte und überarbeitete Auflage. Springer VS (forthcoming)
Froese, Anna, Simon, Dagmar, Böttcher, Julia (Hg.) (2016): Sozialwissenschaften und Gesellschaft.
Neue Verortungen von Wissenstransfer. Bielefeld: transkript.
Matthies, Hildegard/Simon, Dagmar/Torka, Marc (Hg.) (2015): Die Responsivität der Wissenschaft.
Wissenschaftliches Handeln in Zeiten neuer Wissenschaftspolitik. Bielefeld: transcript, 264 S.
Simon, Dagmar (2015): "Messen, bewerten, vergleichen. Evaluationen und die (nicht-) intendierten
Folgen - Leistungskontrolle an einer deutschen Hochschule". In: Christiane Lahusen/Christoph
Markschies (Hg.): Zitat, Paraphrase, Plagiat. Wissenschaft zwischen guten Praxis und
Fehlverhalten. Forschungsberichte der Interdisziplinären Arbeitsgruppen an der BerlinBrandenburgischen Akademie der Wissenschaften, Bd. 35. Frankfurt a.M.: Campus, S. 229-245.
Simon, Dagmar/Knie, Andreas (2013): "Can Evaluation Contribute to the Organizational
Development of Academic Institutions? An International Comparison" In: Evaluation - The
International Journal of Theory, Research and Practice, Vol. 19, No. 4, S. 402-418.
Selected recent projects:
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2015 – 2016 The Use of Expertise in Germany – a comparative analysis
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2015 – 2018
COST-Aktion "European Network for Research Evaluation in the Social
Sciences and the Humanities"
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2014 – 2017
New Spaces for Collaboration between Science and Practice in the Social
and Spatial Sciences - Innovation Spaces in the Social Science
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2011 – 2014
Scientization or socialization? The transformation of knowledge orders in
Germany, Great Britain and the US

Workload - Zentrum für Interdisziplinaere Frauen