Anders Korsgaard
The National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Department of History and Philosophy of Science.
Anders Korsgaard is a Ph.D. candidate at the doctoral program of the Department of History and Philosophy of Science at the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens (bachelor’s in History of Ideas from the University of Oslo; MSc in Science, Technology, Society Studies from the University of Athens). Over the course of his latest studies and research, he has been especially interested in the European Health Data Space (EHDS).
His master thesis focused on the promissory aspects of the EHDS, where he, through a comparative case study on Greece and Norway, analysed how EU policy agendas for increased data sharing exhort expectations and visions on to biomedical professionals, how these were contested and/or stabilised, and how the biomedical professionals themselves envisioned health data sharing going forward. Most of late, in his doctoral research, he has set out to investigate the promises of the EHDS policy agenda and how it translates into different national policymaking contexts.
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In his doctoral research, Anders Korsgaard has set out to develop a deeper and more comprehensive understanding of the political promises associated with the European Health Data Space policy agenda. Drawing on perspectives from Science and Technology Studies (STS) he approaches the EHDS not as a neutral technical project, but as a sociopolitical endeavour shaped by and for its promises. The aim is to examine the EHDS promises and where they come from, how they are used to justify action, and crucially, what happens to them when they travel from the halls of Brussels to organisational structures in Greece and Norway. More specifically, he examines how promises mobilize action, the actions and investments mobilized for the realisation of the promises, and whether the promises take on local forms reflecting particular values and ways of thinking.
“The aim is to examine the EHDS promises and where they come from, how they are used to justify action, and crucially, what happens to them when they travel from the halls of Brussels to organisational structures in Greece and Norway. ”
— Anders Korsgaard on hir PhD project “The Promise of a Common European Health Data Space: A Comparative STS Study of Policy Imaginaries from EU Commission to Greece and Norway”