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== Awards and prizes ==
Nowotny is a Member of Academia Europaea and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Sciences since 2006. Among other honours she has been awarded the J.D. Bernal Prize for her lifelong achievements in social studies of science. In October 2015, she received an honorary doctorate at the University of Bergen. She has also received an honorary doctorate from the Weizmann Institute of Science and the University of Twente. In July 2013, Nowotny was awarded an Honorary Doctorate by Lancaster University, UK.
In September 2017, she was awarded the President's Medal of the British Academy "for her contribution to the founding and shaping of the European Research Council, and positively influencing the shape of research funding and research policy in the UK and Europe".

== Selected bibliography ==

=== Books ===
Nowotny, Helga; Mendelsohn, Everett (1984). Nineteen eighty-four: science between utopia and dystopia. Dordrecht Boston Hingham, Massachusetts: D. Reidel Publishg Co. ISBN 9789027717214.
Nowotny, Helga; et al. (1994). The new production of knowledge: the dynamics of science and research in contemporary societies. London Thousand Oaks, California: SAGE Publications. ISBN 9780803977945.
Nowotny, Helga; Taschwer, Klaus (1996). The sociology of the sciences. Cheltenham, UK Brookfield, Vermont, US: E. Elgar. ISBN 9781852789114. Pdf of book contents.
Nowotny, Helga; Scott, Peter; Gibbons, Michael (2001). Re-thinking science: knowledge and the public in an age of uncertainty. Cambridge, UK: Polity. ISBN 9780745626086.
Nowotny, Helga (2005). The public nature of science under assault politics, markets, science and the law. Berlin New York: Springer. ISBN 9783540257912.
Nowotny, Helga (2006). Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation. New York, New York: Berghahn Books. ISBN 9781845451172. Conference details: Cultures of technology and the quest for innovation, Kulturwissenschaftliches Institut (KWI) in Essen, Germany, April 2003.
Nowotny, Helga (2008). Insatiable curiosity: innovation in a fragile future. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9781435654976.
Nowotny, Helga; Testa, Giuseppe (2010). Naked genes: reinventing the human in the molecular age. Cambridge, Massachusetts: MIT Press. ISBN 9780262014939.

=== Journal articles and book chapters ===
Nowotny, Helga (September 1992). "Time and social theory: towards a social theory of time". Time & Society. 1 (3): 421–454. doi:10.1177/0961463X92001003006. S2CID 145062035.
Nowotny, Helga (October 1993). "Socially distributed knowledge: five spaces for science to meet the public". Public Understanding of Science. 2 (4): 307–319. doi:10.1088/0963-6625/2/4/002. S2CID 143351946.
Nowotny, Helga (May 1999). "The place of people in our knowledge". European Review. 7 (2): 247–262. doi:10.1017/S1062798700004026. S2CID 143672549.
Nowotny, Helga (February 2000). "Transgressive competence: the narrative of expertise". European Journal of Social Theory. 3 (1): 5–21. doi:10.1177/136843100003001001. S2CID 17147844.
Nowotny, Helga (June 2003). "Democratising expertise and socially robust knowledge". Science and Public Policy. 30 (3): 151–156. Bibcode:2003SciPP..30..151N. doi:10.3152/147154303781780461. hdl:20.500.11850/423040.
Nowotny, Helga (October 2005). "The increase of complexity and its reduction: emergent interfaces between the natural sciences, humanities and social sciences". Theory, Culture & Society. 22 (5): 15–31. doi:10.1177/0263276405057189. S2CID 144901646.
Nowotny, Helga (2022), "The Quest for Innovation and Cultures of Technology", in Hannes Obermair and Harald Pechlaner (ed.), Eurac Research: Inventing Science in a Region, Bozen-Bolzano: Eurac Research, pp. 195–207, doi:10.57749/a924-n835, ISBN 978-88-6839-628-2.

== References ==

== External links ==
Personal homepage
ERC homepage