Dimitra Kotouza
Biographic Data
| ID | 2765796 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Dimitra Kotouza |
| GIVEN NAMES | Dimitra |
| FAMILY NAME | Kotouza |
| SIGNATURE | KOTOUZA D |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Edinburgh |
| ORCID | 0000-0001-7342-0485 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2017 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Polygenic scores as bio-social policy instruments
The use of genetic data has proliferated in social and behavioural genomics research, leading to proposals for genetically-informed social policy. In particular, in the domain of ‘educational genomics’, researchers using ‘polygenic scores’—summary statistics used to calculate social outcomes from genetic data—have generated scientific knowledge claims about the potential to predict educational outcomes from biological samples. These polygenic sco…
Attention as an object of knowledge, intervention and valorisation
Innovations in mobile neuromonitoring and brain–computer interfaces are increasingly used to inform understandings of human brains and behaviours while also catalysing imaginaries of neuroscientifically measured and enhanced economic productivity. In this paper, we focus on neurotechnologies that claim to capture, monitor, measure and train learners’ attention. We analyse a corpus of relevant scientific, governance, and commercial texts to explor…
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics
Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this field navigates a series of old and new methodological problems and political controversies, while attempting to distance itself from the elitist, eugenic, and racist history of genetics in education. Moving away from genetic determinism, its multidisciplinary approach embeds knowledge from …
Brokering the brain
Educational neuroscience has expanded its influence since the 1990s, positioned as advancing new forms of intervention in educational policy and practice. Simultaneously, the gap between the neuroscience lab and the classroom has preoccupied educational debate. Yet, little is known about the discursive practices by which educational neuroscience seeks to translate science into application. In this paper, we analyse the translational knowledge bro…
Infrastructuring Educational Genomics
Technoscientific transformations in molecular genomics have begun to influence knowledge production in education. Interdisciplinary scientific consortia are seeking to identify ‘genetic influences’ on ‘educationally relevant’ traits, behaviors, and outcomes. This article examines the emerging ‘knowledge infrastructure’ of educational genomics, attending to the assembly and choreography of organizational associations, epistemic architecture, and t…
Mental health in universities in an age of digital capitalism
Student mental health and well-being is a focus of great attention and concern. While research is increasingly investigating institutional factors that might affect mental health and well-being, university infrastructures and frameworks themselves are rarely considered. This Short Communication takes the United Kingdom as an exemplary case to outline the implementation and intensified use of digital technologies, infrastructures, and data; and th…
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector
The mental health and well-being of university staff and students in the UK are reported to have seriously deteriorated. Rather than taking this ‘mental health crisis’ at face value, we carry out network and discourse analyses to investigate the policy assemblages (comprising social actors, institutions, technologies, knowledges and discourses) through which the ‘crisis' is addressed. Our analysis shows how knowledges from positive psychology and…
Surplus Citizens
Practices of Labor Activism in Greece: Inside and Outside the Workplace
Confronting mass lay-offs, wage cuts, increasingly precarious conditions, unpaid work, employer violence, and mass unemployment, workers in Greece have organized strikes, workplace occupations, action outside workplaces, and attempts at self-management. These practices, and their strengths and limitations in the context of the crisis, are analyzed using secondary data, ethnographic, and documentary material. Contrasting the tactics located extern…
Practices of Labor Activism in Greece
Confronting mass lay-offs, wage cuts, increasingly precarious conditions, unpaid work, employer violence, and mass unemployment, workers in Greece have organized strikes, workplace occupations, action outside workplaces, and attempts at self-management. These practices, and their strengths and limitations in the context of the crisis, are analyzed using secondary data, ethnographic, and documentary material. Contrasting the tactics located extern…
Attention as an object of knowledge, intervention and valorisation
Innovations in mobile neuromonitoring and brain–computer interfaces are increasingly used to inform understandings of human brains and behaviours while also catalysing imaginaries of neuroscientifically measured and enhanced economic productivity. In this paper, we focus on neurotechnologies that claim to capture, monitor, measure and train learners’ attention. We analyse a corpus of relevant scientific, governance, and commercial texts to explor…
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector
The mental health and well-being of university staff and students in the UK are reported to have seriously deteriorated. Rather than taking this ‘mental health crisis’ at face value, we carry out network and discourse analyses to investigate the policy assemblages (comprising social actors, institutions, technologies, knowledges and discourses) through which the ‘crisis' is addressed. Our analysis shows how knowledges from positive psychology and…
Practices of Labor Activism in Greece: Inside and Outside the Workplace
Confronting mass lay-offs, wage cuts, increasingly precarious conditions, unpaid work, employer violence, and mass unemployment, workers in Greece have organized strikes, workplace occupations, action outside workplaces, and attempts at self-management. These practices, and their strengths and limitations in the context of the crisis, are analyzed using secondary data, ethnographic, and documentary material. Contrasting the tactics located extern…
Practices of Labor Activism in Greece
Confronting mass lay-offs, wage cuts, increasingly precarious conditions, unpaid work, employer violence, and mass unemployment, workers in Greece have organized strikes, workplace occupations, action outside workplaces, and attempts at self-management. These practices, and their strengths and limitations in the context of the crisis, are analyzed using secondary data, ethnographic, and documentary material. Contrasting the tactics located extern…
Surplus Citizens
Mental health in universities in an age of digital capitalism
Student mental health and well-being is a focus of great attention and concern. While research is increasingly investigating institutional factors that might affect mental health and well-being, university infrastructures and frameworks themselves are rarely considered. This Short Communication takes the United Kingdom as an exemplary case to outline the implementation and intensified use of digital technologies, infrastructures, and data; and th…
Mapping mental health and the UK university sector
The mental health and well-being of university staff and students in the UK are reported to have seriously deteriorated. Rather than taking this ‘mental health crisis’ at face value, we carry out network and discourse analyses to investigate the policy assemblages (comprising social actors, institutions, technologies, knowledges and discourses) through which the ‘crisis' is addressed. Our analysis shows how knowledges from positive psychology and…
Infrastructuring Educational Genomics
Technoscientific transformations in molecular genomics have begun to influence knowledge production in education. Interdisciplinary scientific consortia are seeking to identify ‘genetic influences’ on ‘educationally relevant’ traits, behaviors, and outcomes. This article examines the emerging ‘knowledge infrastructure’ of educational genomics, attending to the assembly and choreography of organizational associations, epistemic architecture, and t…
Attention as an object of knowledge, intervention and valorisation
Innovations in mobile neuromonitoring and brain–computer interfaces are increasingly used to inform understandings of human brains and behaviours while also catalysing imaginaries of neuroscientifically measured and enhanced economic productivity. In this paper, we focus on neurotechnologies that claim to capture, monitor, measure and train learners’ attention. We analyse a corpus of relevant scientific, governance, and commercial texts to explor…
Genetics for ‘equality’? The politics of knowledge production in educational genomics
Educational genomics is an emerging field of research that analyses associations between vast samples of human DNA and educational outcomes. I trace how this field navigates a series of old and new methodological problems and political controversies, while attempting to distance itself from the elitist, eugenic, and racist history of genetics in education. Moving away from genetic determinism, its multidisciplinary approach embeds knowledge from …
Brokering the brain
Educational neuroscience has expanded its influence since the 1990s, positioned as advancing new forms of intervention in educational policy and practice. Simultaneously, the gap between the neuroscience lab and the classroom has preoccupied educational debate. Yet, little is known about the discursive practices by which educational neuroscience seeks to translate science into application. In this paper, we analyse the translational knowledge bro…
Polygenic scores as bio-social policy instruments
The use of genetic data has proliferated in social and behavioural genomics research, leading to proposals for genetically-informed social policy. In particular, in the domain of ‘educational genomics’, researchers using ‘polygenic scores’—summary statistics used to calculate social outcomes from genetic data—have generated scientific knowledge claims about the potential to predict educational outcomes from biological samples. These polygenic sco…
Political science (6 works) · Sociology (6 works) · Computer Science (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Economics (3 works) · Genomics (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Psychology (3 works) · Public relations (3 works) · Social Policy and Reform Studies (3 works)