Boel Berner

Boel Berner (b. 3 August 1945) is a Swedish sociologist, historian, and editor. Karin Boel Christina Berner was born 3 August 1945 in Helsingborg. She graduated with a bachelor's degree from Lund University in 1967, and a PhD in sociology from Lund University in 1981. Berner became an associate professor in sociology in 1988. She has studied and done research several times in London and Paris. From 1991 she was a professor on the topic of technology and social change at Linköping University. She is a member of the international gender research network Mage, based in Paris. Berner's research has focused on four main areas, using historical analysis and participatory observation and interviews: medical technology and practice; the nature and social role of technical knowledge; gender and technology; and risk and uncertainty. She served as editor of the magazine Zenit (1974-85), for Sociological Research (1976–1977), for Acta Sociologica (1980–1981), and for Women's Journal of Science (1981). Berner is a scientific editor of the Pandora series on Arkiv förlag, with a focus on science, technology and medicine in society. Skola, ideologi och samhälle (edited with Staf Callewaert & Henning Silberbrandt, 1977) Utbildning och arbetsdelning (edited with Staf Callewaert & Henning Silberbrandt, 1979) Teknikens värld (doctoral thesis, 1981, new edition 2012) Kunskapens vägar (1989) Regeln i undantaget. Om olyckor, kunskap och tekniska system (1992) Från symaskin till cyborg (edited with Elisabeth Sundin, 1996) Sakernas tillstånd. Kön, klass, teknisk expertis (1996) Gendered practices. Feminist studies of technology and society (edited 1997) Perpetuum mobile?Teknikens utmaningar och historiens gång (1999) Manoeuvering in an Environment of Uncertainty. Structural Change and Social Action in Sub-Saharan Africa (edited with Per Trulsson, 2000) Suède: l ́égalité des sexes en question (edited with Elisabeth Elgán & Jacqueline Heinen, 2000) Constructing Risk and Safety in Technological Practice (edited with Jane Summerton, 2003) Vem tillhör tekniken? Kunskap och kön i teknikens värld (2003) Ifrågasättanden.