Guido Ruivenkamp is chairing the CTC group, and currently leading a number of interdisciplinary research programmes. After completing his studies in Sociology at the University of Leiden (1977), he worked for several years at the University of Milan
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Guido Ruivenkamp is chairing the CTC group, and currently leading a number of interdisciplinary research programmes. After completing his studies in Sociology at the University of Leiden (1977), he worked for several years at the University of Milan as research assistant at the "Dipartimento di Scienze del Territorio". In 1984 he started his PhD research "The introduction of biotechnology into the agro-industrial chain of production: changing over towards a new form of labour organisation" at the University of Amsterdam (1984-89). He has subsequently been appointed as senior agricultural researcher at the Centre for Technology and Policy Studies of the Netherlands Organisation for Applied Scientific Research (TNO-STB), and has been the director of the Centre for Agriculture and Biotechnological Developments of the (Dutch) Western Farming and Horticultural Organisation (WLTO). In 1993, he started working as assistant professor for the Technology and Agrarian Development (TAD) group of Wageningen University, where he set up a new reseach and educational programme. In 2005, he was appointed associate professor at the Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam, and one year later he initiated the Critical Technology Construction group as a new platform for critical constructivist studies into the relation between modern technologies and social relations.
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