Katrin Bauer
As a researcher, Katrin has a passion for public entrepreneurship and social innovation in the public sector. Her approach to methodology embraces mixed methods while bringing broad practical experience from project management in industry, politics and sports governing bodies.
Away from her work, Katrin enjoys musical and cultural events, team handball and photography.
Achievements include
- Dr. rer. pol. in Business Administration, TU Dortmund University
- Best paper award, 2024 International Social Innovation Research Conference, Bern, Switzerland
- Ad-hoc reviewer in leading entrepreneurship and public administration journals
- Member of the Academy of Management (i.a., ENT Division)
- Head of Accreditations for the World Championships (indoor handball) and Project Manager Beach Handball, German Handball Federation (2016-2017, alongside studies)
- Parliamentary Secretary, Social Democratic Party of Germany (2015-2018, alongside studies)
In my own words…
Notwithstanding the everywhere-discussed threats, and considering what tech for good has increasingly taught us already, I see a tremendous potential in AI and data science for common good, and a bidirectional flow between social innovation and data science that involves research in and throughout different disciplines to catch all actors.
By understanding better and from multiple perspectives how AI enables social innovation and affects its ecosystem and, likewise, how the inclusion of social innovation in the AI arena affects the latter's development, we will be all set for an ethical and sustainable path to solve the world's most pressing problems, using emerging tech for social innovation.
Simply, my vision for Datavysts and its legacy is having a large stake in a future where we, as humans, build on AI and data science to change social practices while being self-efficacious about staying within ethical boundaries.