Eleanor Armstrong
About me
I am a postdoctoral research in Professor Danielsson's research group on Science Education. My research has two main themes: (1) queer feminist science communication research, and (2) critical science communication.
(1) Queer feminist science commication - Queer theorizations reject binary positions of ‘science’ and ‘culture’ as monolithic or distinct, and instead sees them as intertwined, unfixed, and ongoingly re-definable. You can read more of my research in this strand in my contributions to edited collections such as Queering Science Communciation, the Routledge Handbook of Social Studies of Outer Space, The Gender of Things, and Space Feminisms.
(2) Critical science communication - By foregrounding the tensions between the (un)intentional and (un)recognized ways that science is engaged in the local environments and communities, this research exposes how such narratives support colonial practices of science research. You can read more about how I explore and trouble the constructions of capital-colonialism, territory, and extraction in the contexts of science communication in my forthcoming texts in Journal of Natural Science Collections, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. This work has been supported through my position as a
As of 2023, I have secured funding through the Comission on Women and Gender's Agnodike Travel Research Fellowship, the Helge Ax:son Johnsons Foundation, and from the Swedish Research Council's Exploratory Workshop Fund, and the Royal Astronomical Society's Meetings Grant. I am also a consultant on the Technisches Museum Wien's 'This is (not) Rocket Science' project (funded through the OeAD/BMBWF 2022-25).
