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Dr. Arno Simons holds a B.A. in Social Sciences from Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin and a M.A. in History, Philosophy, and Sociology of Science from the University of Bielefeld. In his academic work, Arno has exlored various aspects of the relationship between science, technology, politics and society. As a member of the ‘Innovation in Governance’ research group (2009-2014), he investigated the development and spread of policy instruments (Simons et al. 2014; Mann and Simons 2015) and established, together with Jan-Peter Voß, the concept of the ‘instrument constituency’, which describes a form of political agency distinct from epistemic communities and advocacy coalitions (Voß and Simons 2014; Simons and Voß 2018), as well as a performative understanding of policy experimentation (Robaey und Simons 2015; Voß and Simons 2018). In his Doctoral thesis, he combined bibliometric and hermeneutic methods to analyze the discursive construction of emissions trading in a network of expert documents and argued that such document networks work as a supporting infrastructure for instrument constituencies (Simons 2015; Simons 2016). At the Institute for Ecological Economy Research (IÖW), Arno studied Germany’s upcomming maker movement (Simons et al. 2016) and sharing economy (Vogelpohl and Simons 2015). Then he became involved in a series of projects on biomedical translation at Humboldt-University in cooperation with the DZHW and the Berlin Institute of Health (BIH) (2016-2018). Currently, he is co-leading a project on the roles of review articles in different scientific fields and as boundary objects between science and politics.

Research interests

• Science and Technology Studies
• Innovation in Politics
• Discourse Studies
• Translational Research
• Network Analysis

Research Projects

2014-2016

• Kerninhalte, Organisationsstrukturen und Bewertungsverfahren translationaler medizinischer Forschung

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Publications

2020

• Simons, A., Riedel, N., Toelch, U., Hendriks, B., Müller-Ohlraun, S., Liebenau, L., Ambrasat, J., Dirnagl, U., Reinhart, M. Assessing the Organizational Climate for Translational Research with a New Survey Tool. Sci Eng Ethics (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11948-020-00234-0

2019

• Hendriks, B., Simons, A., & Reinhart, M. (2019). What are clinician scientists expected to do? The undefined space for professionalizable work in translational biomedicine. Minerva(Reihe), Wiesbaden: Springer. doi: 10.1007/s11024-019-09367-4

2018

• Simons, A., Hendriks, B., Dirnagl, U., Riedel, N., Tölch, U., Ahmed, F., & Reinhart, M. (2018). Wo und wie gelingt Translation? Einschätzungen aus der Praxis am Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung. Forschung & Lehre, 25 (10).
• Voß, J., & Simons, A. (2018). Instrument Constituencies. Promoting Policy Designs. In M. Howlett & I. Mukherjee (Hrsg.), Handbook of Policy Design. Routledge.
• Voß, J., & Simons, A. (2018).A Novel Understanding of Experimentation in Governance: Co-Producing Innovations between ‘Lab’ and ‘Field'. Policy Sciences, 51(2), 213-229. doi: 10.1007/s11077-018-9313-9
• Simons, A., & Voß, J.-P. (2018). The concept of instrument constituencies: accounting for dynamics and practices of knowing governance. Policy and Society, 37(1), 14-35. doi: 10.1080/14494035.2017.1375248

2017

• Simons, A., & Voß, J. (2017). Policy Instrument Constituencies. In M. Howlett & I. Mukherjee (Hrsg.), Handbook of Policy Formulation (S. 355-372). Edward Elgar.

2016

• Simons, A. (2016). Documented authority. The discursive construction of emissions trading in the expert literature. Dissertation auf DepositOnce
• Simons, A., Petschow, U, & Peukert, J. (2016). Offene Werkstätten – nachhaltig innovativ? Potenziale gemeinsamen Arbeitens und Produzierens in der gesellschaftlichen Transformation. Schriftenreihe des IÖW 212/16. Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung.
• Simons, A. (2016). Fact-making in permit markets: document networks as infrastructures of emissions trading. In Voß, J., & Freeman, R. (Hrsg.), Knowing governance. The epistemic construction of political order. Basingstoke, England: Palgrave Macmillan.

2015

• Mann, C., & Simons, A. (2015). Local emergence and international developments of conservation trading systems: Innovation dynamics and related problems. Environmental Conservation 42(4), S. 325–34. doi:10.1017/S0376892914000381.
• Simons, A., & Voß, J. (2015). Politics by other means. The making of the emissions trading instrument as a 'pre-history' of carbon trading. In Lane, R., & Stephan, B. (Hrsg.), The politics of carbon markets (S. 51-68). New York, USA, London, England: Routledge.
• Robaey, Z., & Simons, A. (2015). Responsible management of social experiments: Challenges for policymaking. In Koops, B., van den Hoven, J., Romijn, H., Swierstra, T., & Oosterlake, I. (Hrsg.), Responsible Innovation, Volume 2: Concepts, approaches, and applications (S. 87-104). Springer.
• Vogelpohl, T., & Simons, A. (2015). Kontroversen ums Teilen. Ein Überblick über das online gestützte Peer-to-Peer Sharing als gesellschaftliche Innovation und eingehende allgemeine und spezifische Kontroversen. PeerSharing Arbeitsbericht 2. Institut für ökologische Wirtschaftsforschung.

2014

• Simons, A., Lis, A., & Lippert, I. (2014). The political duality of scalemaking in environmental markets. Environmental Politics, 23(4), S. 632-649.
• Voß, J., & Simons, A. (2014). Instrument constituencies and the supply side of policy innovation: The social life of emissions trading. Environmental Politics, 35(5), S. 735-754
• Mann, C., Voß, J., Simons, A., Amelung, N., & Runge, T. (2014). Challenging futures of biodiversity offsets and banking. Critical issues for robust forms of biodiversity conservation. Policy Report, Innovation in Governance Research Group, Technische Universität Berlin.
• Mann, C., Voß, J., Amelung, N., Simons, A., Runge, T., & Grabner, L. (2014). Challenging futures of citizen panels. Critical issues for robust forms of public participation. Policy Report, Innovation in Governance Research Group, Technische Universität Berlin.

2013

• Simons, A. (2013). A politics of inevitability. The privatization of the Berlin water company, the global city discourse, and governance in 1990s Berlin, by Ross Beveridge. Critical Policy Studies, 7(1), S. 92-95

2009

• Legewie, J., & Simons, A. (2009). Zur Rationalität von Selbstmordattentätern. Kritische Überlegungen Zur Anwendung von rational-choice Theorien. In Shikano, S., Behnke, J., & Bräuninger, T. (Hrsg.), Theorien der Verfassungsreform (S. 245-274). Springer.
• Simons, A. (2009). Between science and values. The Pembina Institute and its role in the construction of environmental problems of the Albertan oil sands. Masterarbeit. Universität Bielefeld.

2007

• Simons, A. (2007). 140 Jahre chemische Gesellschaften in Deutschland. Nachrichten aus der Chemie, 55(11), S. 1099-1100.

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Talks

• Hendriks, B., Reinhart, M., & Simons, A. in Zusammenarbeit mit Dirnagl, U. , Riedel, N., Tölch, U., & Ohlraun, S. (2018, Januar). Clinician Scientists als Gegenstand sozialwissenschaftlicher Forschung im Kontext von Translation. Vortrag im Rahmen des Clinician Scientists Retreat am Berliner Institut für Gesundheitsforschung.

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Teaching

SoSe 2019

SoSe 2018

WiSe 2017/18

SoSe 2017

WiSe 2016/17

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