Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha

Quick Facts

Full Name	Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha
Occupation	Sociologist
Date Of Birth	Feb 22, 1951(1951-02-22)
Age	73
Birthplace	Glasgow
Country	United Kingdom
Birth City	Scotland
Horoscope	Aquarius

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha Biography

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha is one of the most popular and richest Sociologist who was born on February 22, 1951 in Glasgow, Scotland, United Kingdom. Caroline Robertson-von Trotha, a Scottish sociologist and cultural scientist who was born 22 February 1951 in Glasgow (Scotland), is currently based in Germany.

She is married Klaus von Trotha, who served as Minister of Science, Research and the Arts in Baden-Wurttemberg between 1991 and 2001.

Robertson-von Trotha’s research focuses on globalisation and cultural change, multiculturalism and integration policy, cultural heritage, and the ‘Theory and Practice of Public Science’ (Öffentliche Wissenschaft). In her opening speeches to the ‘Karlsruher Dialogues’ Robertson-von Trotha introduced the concept of Public Science, redesigning the classical task of science communication and dissemination of scientific processes and findings according to dialogical and transdisciplinary principles. She was the first to introduce the term in German speaking space, as well as an advising expert and one of the first signatories of the Charta Öffentliche Kommunikationswissenschaft (‘Public Communication Science’). This approach had been inspired by the tradition of the British ‘PUS Initiative’ (‘Public Understanding of Science’) and the promotion of the ‘Understanding of Scientific literacy’ developed in North America. Subsequently, Robertson-von Trotha developed her concept in relation to the PUSH-Memorandum of the non-profit company Wissenschaft im Dialog (WiD), founded in 1999, an initiative of the Stifterverband für die Deutsche Wissenschaft (‘Donors’ Association for the Promotion of Sciences and Humanities in Germany’), and in 2012 she carried out the first of several analyses of Public Science “in the mirror of Web 2.0 culture”. As founding director of the ZAK | Centre for Cultural and General Studies, she also institutionally established her programme of ‘Public Science in Theory and Practice’: in addition to Research and Teaching, it forms one of the three pillars on which the centre is based on.

She was also appointed to the impromptu EU Focus Working Group on Science and Culture in 2009, and is also a reviewer for the EU, the MWK (Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts of Baden-Württemberg) and the BMBF (Federal Ministry of Education and Research).

Her core concept, ‘Public Science (OW), was developed within the context of the Interfacultative Institute for Cultural Studies. (IAK), which she co- founded in 1989. It was intended to increase public awareness about the importance of science and allow for an exchange in the spirit of an all- encompassing civil society. The key concepts include “Scientific/Cultural Literacy” and “Scientist Citizen/Citizen Scientist”. She was also the founding director of ZAK. She conceived many formats that could be used to implement her theory of Public Science’.

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha Net Worth

Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha is one of the richest Sociologist from United Kingdom. According to our analysis, Wikipedia, Forbes & Business Insider, Caroline Y. Robertson-von Trotha 's net worth $5 Million. (Last Update: December 11, 2023)

Robertson-von Trotha, her father, died unexpectedly in 1967. Oban High School was closed at 15 years old. She received the Oban Hotel Association’s gold medal in 1967 after she had completed her basic training as a hotel manager (‘City & Guild Certificate’). Robertson-von Trotha, who had been working in the hotel sector for two years, began a backpacking trip through Europe and Turkey that brought her to Germany. She prepared herself for the Scottish Higher Level Examinations by working alone. She was admitted to University of Heidelberg in 1972 and she studied philosophy, political science and history in Heidelberg, Karlsruhe and other parts of Germany. After completing her dissertation on the topic “Ethnic Identity and Political Mobilisation”, she was awarded a grant by the Peter Fuld Foundation and received her PhD in 1990. She was habilitated in 2004 on the topic ‘The Dialectics of globalisation’ at the Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences of the University of Karlsruhe. She was made an adjunct professor in 2007 by the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT), formerly University of Karlsruhe. She was a founding member of Interfacultative Institute for Cultural Studies at the University of Karlsruhe (TH) and served as its managing direct from 1990 to 2002. Centre for Cultural and General Studies at the Karlsruhe Institute of Technology (KIT).

Robertson-von Trotha is an analog to her integrative approach to science communication. She researches and participates in the field socio-political Integration. She developed themes and theses about multiculturalism and integration in her early publications, which were published in the late 1980s and the early 1990s. These topics have been increasingly important in politics and research since the new millennium. She describes how ethnic identity can be used to mobilize for different political goals, and the risks that this brings, in her 1991 dissertation. Alf Mintzel, a German socioologist and political scientist, recognizes Robertsonvon Trotha’s contribution to the study of ethnic identities as a central theorem. In 2011, she was a significant contributor as a scientific consultant and coauthor to the drafting of the strategy paper Alliance for Integration’ by the Stuttgart City Council. This paper was awarded the Cities for Peace Prize in 2004 by UNESCO. In 2016, she launched the ‘World Science Cafe’ in collaboration with the International Scholars & Welcome Office at KIT. The Philipp Schwartz Initiative is supported by the German Federal Foreign Office.

Since 1995, she is a member of the Board of Trustees of the Institute for Cultural Policy of the Kulturpolitische Gesellschaft e.V., as well as founding member of the Kulturwissenschaftliche Gesellschaft e.V. (2015); since 2017, she is member of the Scientific Advisory Board (Kleines Konvent) of the Schader Foundation and member of the Netzwerk Integrationsforschung (‘Network Integration Research’) of the Baden-Württemberg Ministry for Integration.

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