Winners of the Taiwan STS Dissertation/Thesis Awards 2016 & 2015

Winners of the Taiwan STS Dissertation/Thesis Awards 2016 & 2015

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (2016)

Excellence Award were not awarded this year.

Merit Award

  • Green Technology and Local Use: An Analysis of the Photovoltaic Socio-Technical Networks in Taiwan [in Chinese]
    by Hui-Ping CHEN 陳惠萍
    PhD, Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
    Supervisor: Chia-Ling WU 吳嘉苓

MASTER’S THESIS (2016)

Excellence Award

  • Governance of Dust Mite: Risk, Consumption and Parenting on Childhood Allergic Diseases [in Chinese]
    by Shinyi HSIEH 謝新誼
    Master, Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
    Advisor: Chia-Ling WU 吳嘉苓

Merit Award

  • Mango, Blindness and Busyness: The Analysis of Social process in the Practice of Production and Market of Mango — A Case Study of YuJing [in Chinese]
    by Chieh-Ting Tsai 蔡介庭
    Master, Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
    Advisor: Dung-Sheng CHEN 陳東升
  • Authenticity, Locality and Medicinal Materials in East Asia: The Rise of Taiwanese Dang Gui and Its Controversy, 1957-1972 [in Chinese]
    by Chia-Juei CHANG 張嘉芮
    Master, Institute of Science, Technology, and Society, National Yang-Ming University
    Advisors: Wen-Ji WANG 王文基 & Sean Hsiang-Lin LEI 雷祥麟

DOCTORAL DISSERTATION (2015)

Both Excellence Award and Merit Award were not awarded this year.


MASTER’S THESIS (2015)

Excellence Award

  • “Being a Craftsman”: Life, Work and Social Mobility of Trailer Makers in Kaohsiung [in Chinese]
    by Chia-Hsin HSIEH 謝嘉心
    Master, Institute of Sociology, National Tsing Hua University
    Advisor: Wen-Lan LIN 林文蘭

Merit Award

  • Negotiating Dementia: Diagnostic Assemblage, Order of Everyday Life and Identity [in Chinese]
    by Chen-Shuo HONG 洪晨碩
    Master, Institute of Sociology, National Taiwan University
    Advisor: Chia-Ling WU 吳嘉苓
  • Politics of Expertise in the Third Wave of STS: A Controversy Study on Pet-Feeding in Taiwan [in Chinese]
    by Yun-Hao KO 柯雲皓
    Master, Institute of Science, Technology, and Society, National Yang-Ming University
    Advisor: Daiwei FU 傅大為
  • Tourette Syndrome, Disease Categories and Personal Identity in Taiwan [in Chinese]
    by Mu-Yen CHAN 詹穆彥
    Master, Institute of History, National Tsing Hua University
    Advisors: Wen-Ji WANG 王文基 & Chuan-Hui MAU 毛傳慧
  • Technological Politics in the Reconstruction of Historic Streets:Case studies of the Sanxia and Shenkeng Historic Streets [in Chinese]
    by Ying-Chen SU 蘇映塵
    Master, Graduate Institute of Building and Planning, National Taiwan University
    Advisor: Chih-Hung WANG 王志弘