bio

Professor Anne Beaulieu, Aletta Jacobs Chair of Knowledge Infrastructures for Sustainability at Campus Fryslân and Director of the Data Research Centre, University of Groningen. She recently developed the minor programme Data Wise: Data Science in Society with Gert Stulp. Beaulieu’s research focuses on diversity and complexity in knowledge infrastructures, with particular attention to digital data assemblages and interfaces for the creation and circulation of knowledge. She is co-author of three books on knowledge and technology (see Books page) and has published widely the significance of ethnographic methods for the study of data practices. Beaulieu was Visiting Research Fellow at the Pufendorf Institute for Advance Studies, Lund University, Sweden (2017–2018) and Visiting Professor at the Science and Technology Studies Department of the University of Vienna, Austria (2018). Since September 2018, she has been co-coordinator of the PhD training network of the Netherlands Graduate Research School of Science, Technology and Modern Culture (WTMC), and has developed numerous innovative courses in the major programme Responsible Planet at University College Fryslân.

Employment

Current positions

• Since April 2021, Professor and Aletta Jacobs Chair of Knowledge Infrastructures, University of Groningen
• Since March 2019, Director Data Research Centre, University of Groningen
• Since Sept 2018, Associate Professor of Science and Technology Studies, University of Groningen
• Since Sept 2018, Scientific Coordinator PhD training, Research School WTMC
• April 2018-December 2018, Coordinator Impact Project, Seconded to CWTS, Leiden University
• 2015-May 2018, Programme Manager Energysense, University of Groningen
• 2011-2014, Project Manager Groningen Energy and Sustainability Programme, University of Groningen
• 2005-2011, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Programme Leader, Virtual Knowledge Studio, KNAW, Amsterdam
• 2001-2005, Senior Research Fellow and Deputy Programme Leader, Virtual Knowledge Studio, KNAW, Amsterdam
• 1999-2001, Lecturer in Science, Culture and Communication, (equivalent to assistant professor, tenure track), Department of Psychology, University of Bath, UK
• 1995-1999, Sessional Instructor, Department of Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam
• 1992-1993, Teaching and Research Assistant, Department of English, McGill University, Montreal, Canada
• 1992-93, Research Assistant, Department of Biostatistics and Epidemiology, McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Professional and Editorial Activities

• 2020 to present, Board member, King of the Meadows
• 2017 to present, Board Member of the NIAS-Lorentz advisory board
• 2017 to present, Board member Studium Generale Groningen
• 2001 to present, Member of WTMC, National research school Science, Technology and Modern Culture (science studies research network)
• January 2002 to 2005, Visiting Fellow, Science Studies Centre, University of Bath (UK)
• 2002 to present, Reviewer for NSF (US), Wellcome Trust (UK), ESRC (UK), King Baudouin Foundation (Belgium), Temple University Press (US), Cornell University Press (US), Sage (UK), Social Studies of Science, Science, Technology and Human Values, Handbook of Science and Technology Studies, New Media and Society, Science Studies, Journal of the Association for Information Systems, Science as Culture, Forum Qualitative Research, Social Science & Medicine, Ethnography, Computer Supported Cooperative Work, Field Methods, Neuroscience & Biobehavioral Reviews, Public Understanding of Science, Organization, Science in Context, Data Science Journal, Big Data and Society
• Member of MacArthur-UCHRI Digital Media and Learning Initiative, Group on Community Protocol on ethics and data-sharing, 2010.
• Member of KNAW programme committee on Computational Humanities, 2009-2010.
• Member of the E-science panel of the Swedish Research Council, 2009.
• Member of the OECD expert committee on data sharing, 2001-2003.

Education

• 2000 Ph.D. Department of Science & Technology Dynamics, University of Amsterdam, Dissertation: The Space inside the Skull: Digital Representations, Brain Mapping and Cognitive Neuroscience in the Decade of the Brain, Promotor: Professor Stuart Blume.
• 1994 M.A. Thesis: The Truth of the Trace: Constructing the Power of the Medical Image, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
• 1992 B.A. (with distinction) Humanistic Studies (Religious Art), McGill University, Montreal, Canada

Where I’m from

I grew up in city called Moncton, a regional service and cultural centre in an economically deprived part of Canada. As part of the minority Acadian (French-speaking) community, I developed a rather complex and sometimes fierce view of language politics and of centre/periphery issues–which comes with its highly specific kind of humor (Acadieman!). At 18, I went to McGill University, and from there moved to Amsterdam where I did my PhD.

Since 2007, I’ve been living in the fabulous northern city of Groningen with my husband and son (a UK millennium baby). I was a long-time member of the Groningen section of Stitch&Bitch, love working with all kinds of textiles, and am an avid bio-oriented scuba diver, in the past with Hydrofiel in Groningen and with Oceanus in Zeeland. More recently, I took up water polo, as supporter,  as member of the water polo committee of TriVia , and for a few years as a recreational player.

My newest passion is triathlon and I am a member of GVAV. My first multi-sport event was a swim-run organised by Tritanium in 2017. In Summer 2018, I took part in the Speedman sprint (Groningen). A year later, this black and orange number saw me through the European Championship (Weert).

In 2020, I trained for the middle distance event (1.9-90-21) at Didam (Achterhoek, Gelderland), which got cancelled due to the pandemic.I channeled my fitness into a do-it-yourself 90km bike-run challenge (parking lot photo). 

In 2021, the goal is to recover from a bout of covid-19, to enjoy some fun multi-sport events (jumping into the Waddensea from a boat), do a half-marathon in September, and  dream up the next big challenge. In 2022, I will be training for 70.3 Westrfriesland.