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Philippe Saner

Philippe Saner, Dr.

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Bio

Philippe studied sociology, political science and media studies at the universities of Lucerne, Bern and Ljubljana. Already during his studies he dealt with questions of university research and management, which resulted in a thesis on the emergence of university management using Bern as a case study. From 2013 to 2016, he was a research associate and co-project leader of the research and university development project "Art.School.Differences. Researching Inequalities and Normativities in Higher Art Education" at the Institute for Art Education of the Zurich University of the Arts. In the spring semesters of 2014, 2015 and 2016, he taught qualitative research methods in the master's program Art Education at ZHdK.

From 2017 to 2020, Philippe was a research fellow in the project “Facing Big Data: Methods and skills needed for a 21st century sociology”, funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation's National Research Program 75 on Big Data at the Sociology Department of the University of Lucerne. He investigated how the data sciences emerged at the intersection of different social fields and are perceived and structured in the labour market, in research and higher education policy, as well as in the academic field. His dissertation was published in Summer 2022 under the title «Datenwissenschaften und Gesellschaft. Die Genese eines transversalen Wissensfeldes» by transcript Verlag. At CHESS, he has been a research associate (post-doc) since January 2023 in the project "Digital Strategies: Universities and disciplines as agents of change?", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation within the National Research Program 77 "Digital Transformation".

From summer 2021 to summer 2022, he taught as Senior Lecturer in the Bachelor's program in Vocational Education and Training at the Swiss Federal University for Vocational Education and Training SFIVET. At CHESS, he is currently a research associate (post-doc) since January 2023 in the project "Digital Strategies: Universities and disciplines as agents of change?", funded by the Swiss National Science Foundation within the National Research Program 77 "Digital Transformation".

In addition, Philippe is a senior lecturer at the Department of Sociology at the University of Lucerne, where he teaches seminars on the topics of organization, digitalization, social inequalities, education, universities, and science.

Fields of work and interest

  • Science and technology studies
  • Higher education research
  • Sociology of education
  • Sociology of culture
  • Text analysis
  • Qualitative methods

Publications (selection)

Saner, Philippe, Tratschin, Luca, Leder Christian und Katja Rost (2023): Introduction: Studying Digital Transformation in Research and Higher Education, in Swiss Journal of Sociology 49(3): 449-472. Special Issue “Digital Academia. Investigating Research and Higher Education in the Digital Age”.

Saner, Philippe (2023): A Tamed Transformation. Debating Digital Transformation in Swiss Research and Higher Education Policy, 1998-2020, in Swiss Journal of Sociology 49(3): 473-498.

Saner, Philippe, and Sophie Mützel (2023): Collection of documents on the digitisation of higher education and research in Switzerland (1998-2020) [Dataset]. Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne. Lausanne: FORS. https://doi.org/10.48573/a2cp-xk88

Saner, Philippe (2022): Datenwissenschaften und Gesellschaft. Die Genese eines transversalen Wissensfeldes. Reihe Digitale Soziologie, Band 1. Bielefeld: transcript.

Saner, Philippe und Sophie Mützel (2021): Erhebung von Dokumenten zur Digitalisierung von Hochschulbildung und Forschung in der Schweiz (1998-2020) [Dataset]. Soziologisches Seminar, Universität Luzern. Lausanne: FORS. Online unter: https://doi.org/10.23662/FORS-DS-1300-1

Saner, Philippe und Sophie Mützel (2021): Collection of Data Science Job Advertisements 2017 - 2019 [Dataset]. Department of Sociology, University of Lucerne. Lausanne: FORS. Online unter: https://doi.org/10.23662/FORS-DS-1254-1

Saner, Philippe (2019): Envisioning the education of the future. How imaginations of the future shape the implementation of a new field in higher education, in: Swiss Journal of Sociology, vol. 45(3), pp. 359-381.

Saner, Philippe (2019): Das Unbestimmbare Bewerten. Aufnahmeverfahren an Kunsthochschulen aus rechtfertigungstheoretischer Perspektive, in: Christian Imdorf, Regula Julia Leemann und Philipp Gonon (Hrsg.): Bildung und Konventionen. Die “Économie des Conventions” in der Bildungsforschung, Wiesbaden: Springer VS, S. 179-203.

Mützel, Sophie, Saner, Philippe und Markus Unternährer (2018): Schöne Daten! Konstruktion und Prozessierung von digitalen Daten, in Daniel Houben und Bianca Prietl (Hrsg.): Datengesellschaft. Einsichten in die Datafizierung des Sozialen, Bielefeld: transcript, S. 111–32.

Saner, Philippe, Vögele, Sophie und Pauline Vessely (2016): Schlussbericht «Art.School.Differences. Researching Inequalities and Normativities in the Field of Higher Art Education». Zürich: Institute for Art Education der Zürcher Hochschule der Künste. Online unter: https://blog.zhdk.ch/artschooldifferences/schlussbericht/

Rothmüller, Barbara, Saner, Philippe, Sonderegger, Ruth und Sophie Vögele (2016): «Kunst. Kritik. Bildungsgerechtigkeit. Überlegungen zum Feld der Kunstausbildung». In: Andrea Lange-Vester & Tobias Sander (Hrsg.): Soziale Ungleichheit, Milieus und Habitus im Hochschulstudium. Weinheim: Beltz Verlag, S. 89-105.

Saner, Philippe (2013): Der Streit um den Ästhetischen Blick. Eine Debatte über die «Politik der Ästhetik». Kastner, Jens: Der Streit um den Ästhetischen Blick. Kunst und Politik zwischen Pierre Bourdieu und Jacques Rancière.” Schweizerische Zeitschrift für Soziologie 39(3): 597–601.

Saner, Philippe (2012): Verwaltete Wissenschaft. Universitätsmanagement am Fallbeispiel Bern. Schriftenreihe Kultursoziologie, Band 22, hrsg. von Claudia Honegger. Bern: Institut für Soziologie, Universität Bern.

Talks (selection)

Leder, Christian, and Philippe Saner (2023): “Competition for Students and Legitimacy Between Adaptation and Self-Marketing: The Rise of Degree Programs on Digital Transformation in Swiss Higher Education” , REHES V Workshop - Higher Education and Science, University of Applied Sciences and Arts Lucerne HSLU, November 2-3, 2023.

Saner, Philippe, and Luca Tratschin (2023): “Digitalization as arena. Alliances, opportunities, and digital strategies in the university ecology”. Workshop Organization, Management, and Theories of the Firm (OMTF), Université de Lausanne, 14.-15.09.2023

Leder, Christian, and Philippe Saner (2023): “Competition for Students and Legitimacy Between Adaptation and Self-Marketing: The Rise of Degree Programs on Digital Transformation in Switzerland”. Poster, 35th CHER Conference: Higher Education Institutions as Change Agents in Society: Perspectives on Adaptation and Impact, Wirtschaftsuniversität Wien, Wien, 30.08.-01.09.2023

Saner, Philippe, and Luca Tratschin (2023): “Digitalization as arena. Alliances, opportunities, and digital strategies in the university ecology”. 2023 conference of the Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS-CH), Universität Basel, 31.08.-01.09.2023.

Saner, Philippe, and Sophie Mützel (2023): “Digital Skills in Spaces of Opportunities.” 39th Colloquium of the European Group of Organisation Studies, University of Cagliari, 06.-08.07-2024.

Saner, Philippe, and Luca Tratschin (2023): “Digitalization as arena. Alliances, opportunities and paradox autonomy through universities’ digital strategies”, 18th Workshop on New Institutionalism in Organization Theory, Nicolaus Copernicus University – Toruń, 30.-31.03.2023.

Saner, Philippe (2022): “Future Visions and Coordinated Stability. Debating Digital Transformation in Swiss Research and Higher Education Policy (1998-2020).” REHES IV Workshop - Higher Education and its Organizations, Università della Svizzera Italiana, Lugano, 6./7. Oktober 2022.

Saner, Philippe (2022): “Reimagining the Data Sciences as a Space of Opportunities”. Workshop The rise of data science – negotiating epistemologies. Johannes Kepler Universität Linz, 12. Mai 2022.

Saner, Philippe (2021): “Digital Strategies in Swiss Higher Education Policies and Institutions.” Konferenz Multiple Matters: From Neglected Things to Arts of Noticing Fragility, Swiss Association for the Studies of Science, Technology & Society (STS-CH), Lausanne, 15.-17. Februar 2021.

Saner, Philippe (2020): “The emergence of new fields in higher education between innovation and reproduction”. Workshop Sharing research across Switzerland: Higher Education and Science, REHES: Research in Higher Education and Science in Switzerland, Université de Lausanne, 11. September 2020.

Saner, Philippe (2020): “Data sciences as transversal knowledge formation. A case study on the emergence of interdisciplinary fields in the digital age”. Workshop Digitalisierung, Kultur- und Sozialwissenschaftliche Fakultät Universität Luzern, 28. Januar 2020.

Saner, Philippe (2019): «Das Soziale mit und durch Daten sehen. Konstruktionen von Datenkompetenz als Grundlage für Digitalisierung als gesellschaftliches Transformations-projekt». Congress of the Swiss Sociological Association, Université de Neuchâtel, 10.-12. September 2019.

Saner, Philippe (2019): “Opening a Space between Fields. How Actors in Politics, Industry, and Higher Education Shape an Emerging Field of Knowledge”. 14th Conference of the European Sociological Association, Manchester, United Kingdom, 20.-23. August 2019.

Saner, Philippe (2018): “Higher education in the digital age. How political, economic and educational actors shape the implementation of a new field in higher education”, Conference organized by the Sociology of Education Research Network of the Swiss Sociological Association, HEP Vaud, 8.-9. November 2018.

Saner, Philippe (2018): “Higher education in the digital age. How political, economic and educational actors co-construct skills in an emerging field of knowledge”, congress “Education, Politics, and the State”, jointly organized by the Swiss Society for Educational Research and the Swiss Society for Teacher Training, Zurich, 27.-29. Juni 2018.

Saner, Philippe (2018): “Educating the future. The role of ‘skills gaps’ and methods in political and economic scenarios of the future”, Workshop “We’re on a mission”, Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society (HIIG), Berlin, 27. April 2018.