Research associate and project leader
Contact
+49 6131 6109 338
konrad [at] dialogik-expert.de
Current projects
Completed projects (selection)
- LIV_IN: Living Innovation – Implementing RRI through co-creation of smart futures with industry and citizens
- NEMO: New Emscher Mobility - Developing Integrative Scenarios towards a Sustainable Mobility in the Ruhr Valley
- HoNESt: History of Nuclear Energy and Society
- Good Governance Bioeconomy: Bioeconomy as a socio-technical implementation challenge: framework and requirements for "Good Governance"
- InnoSmart: Participatory shaping of consumer-oriented innovations for smart grids
- CO2BRIM: Multi-stage and regional-scale characterisation of potential CO2 storage formations with particular focus on brine migration risks – an integrated natural and social science approach
Professional focus
- Qualitative and quantitative social research
- Energy research and technology assessment
- Sustainability
- Participation
Professional experience and qualifications
- Since 2010 research associate at DIALOGIK
- 2010–2012 research associate at the Centre for Interdisciplinary Risk and Innovation Studies (ZIRIUS)
- 1998–2009 research associate at the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW)
- 1991–1998 research associate at the Institute of Social Research (IfS)
- 1996 doctorate at the University of Frankfurt (Germany)
- 1991 Master of sociology at the University of Frankfurt (Germany)
- 1984 MBA at the University of Applied Sciences Mainz II (Germany)
Selected publications
- Espluga, J.; Konrad, W.; Enander, A.; Medina, B.; Prades, A.; Cools, P. (2021): Risky or Beneficial? Exploring Perceptions of Nuclear Energy over Time in a Cross-Country Perspective. In: Kaijser, A.; Lehtonen, M.; Meyer, J.-H.; Rubio-Varas, M. (eds): Engaging the Atom. The History of Nuclear Energy and Society in Europe from the 1950s to the Present. Morgantown: West Virginia University Press, 147-169.
- Lehtonen, M.; Prades, A.; Espluga, J.; Konrad, W. (2021): The emergence of mistrustful civic vigilance in Finnish, French, German and Spanish nuclear policies: ideological trust and (de)politicization. Journal of Risk Research. DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/13669877.2021.1957986.
- Konrad, W.; Scheer, D.; Weidtmann, A. (eds.) (2020): Bioökonomie nachhaltig gestalten. Perspektiven für ein zukunftsfähiges Wirtschaften. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften.
- Konrad, W.; Scheer, D. (2020): Nächste Ausfahrt Bioökonomie? Facetten einer Good Governance. In: Konrad, W.; Scheer, D.; Weidtmann, A. (eds.): Bioökonomie nachhaltig gestalten. Perspektiven für ein zukunftsfähiges Wirtschaften. Wiesbaden: VS Verlag für Sozialwissenschaften, 133-162.
- Scheer, D.; Konrad, W.; Wassermann, S. (2017): The good, the bad, and the ambivalent: A qualitative study of public perceptions towards energy technologies and portfolios in Germany. Energy Policy 100: 89-100.