Expertise
To address societal challenges, researchers are increasingly collaborating with citizens, communities, entrepreneurs and policymakers. Esther investigates which support, infrastructure and knowledge are needed to make these collaborations effective and fair. To this end, she focuses on power structures and the politics of knowledge production: who participates and who does not, how are people collaborating and what is at stake? With her research, she wants to contribute to (policies for) inclusive knowledge production.
Education and career
Esther studied Biomedical Sciences (BSc) and American Studies (MA) at the University of Amsterdam. Both within academia and outside of it, she has studied the creation, role and power of (scientific) knowledge in society and looked for ways of sharing her learnings with a wider audience. Amongst other things, she has worked as an editor at news platform ScienceGuide, programmer at Stem op een Vrouw and the European Press Prize, and as a writer at architecture firm Space&Matter. Her master's thesis explored the rhetoric and aesthetics of the Future Farmers of America, an agricultural youth organization founded in 1928 with the aim of preparing teenage boys for a career and life as a modern farm through various activities and rituals.
Esther Baar MA
Researcher
Esther focuses on research and innovation policies and new forms of collaboration in science.