What is SV?

From the get-go, students at the SOT dive deep into lots of interesting topics. They are learning about and contributing to Science and Technology Studies (STS) and STS-related discourses such as ethics in AI, biomedical controversies, responsible innovation, and more. As part of their curriculum, they often are required to write papers, essays, reports, or even create content in the form of podcasts and blog posts. In order to do so, students work hard, do thorough research, and as a result, produce highly informative contributions to the fields of STS and RESET. However, Student Voices believes these contributions should not only be read by teachers and end up in the deep ends of their digital archives but should be shared with a larger community.

Student Voices is a student-run digital space for various media content on Science and Technology Studies (STS) topics, use cases, and life as a student at the SOT. The platform is managed by a group of committed students from the SOT M.A. RESET and STS programs to ultimately help students interested in publicizing their work to do so. Inputs to Student Voices can take various forms such as essays written by students, interviews with SOT professors or scholars, blog posts about technology and science-related topics, and commentary about being an M.A. Science and Technology Studies or Responsibility in Science, Engineering and Technology student. As students in interdisciplinary master’s programs in the relatively new field of STS, we are accustomed to questions like “what exactly is it that you study?” In publishing our work, we hope to ultimately show you – the STS and RESET community, current or future STS and RESET students, and the greater public – what exactly we are up to during our studies.

How to?

You are interested in contributing to Student Voices? Great! There are two options to support the group. You can either dig deep into your digital archives or use your current work and submit your writing to our blog or, even better, become a member of our working group. Students from all backgrounds, academically and otherwise, are welcome.

Submit your Writing

You wrote this one assignment last semester that you think the world needs to read? You are visiting an event related to STS and RESET and want to report on it? Or there is this one topic that you have always wanted to write about? The format of Student Voices is quite open, so any type of writing is welcome!

We have regular open calls, but you are always welcome to submit your pieces throughout the semester. To do so, please send an e-mail with the subject „Submit“ to receive instructions on the required format as well as our submission form which you have to send along with your text file to studentvoices(at)mcts.tum.de.

Become a Member

Are you a student from the SOT, the TUM, or another institute around Munich? You are interested in STS and RESET related topics? You want to get active and involved with Student Voices? Great, so let’s get in touch then and see for what exactly you would like to take responsibility.

As part of the Student Voices working group, members participate in regular meetings every other week (usually Wednesdays). Tasks for the group include writing, editing, publishing, web design and more. If you are interested in joining, just drop us a message at studentvoices(at)mcts.tum.de or meet us in person during our info session.

Please note: The student voices webpages are run and editorially supervised by STS and RESET master´s students only. Any content or views represented on these webpages are personal and belong solely to the authors. They do not represent those of the STS Department as a whole.