Bao-Chau Pham, MA (Hons) MA

Researcher (prae doc)

Tel.: +43-1-4277-49617
eMail: bao-chau.pham@univie.ac.at

Biography

Bao-Chau Pham joined the Department of Science and Technology Studies as university assistant (prae doc) in September 2020. She is part of Univ.-Prof. Sarah Davies’ research group on Technosciences, Materiality and Digital Cultures.

Bao-Chau’s academic background is in international relations and conflict and security studies. She completed her undergraduate degree at the University of St Andrews and her Master’s at the War Studies Department, King’s College London. During her Master’s degree Bao-Chau became interested in the intersection of artificial intelligence and international security. For her PhD she explores the co-production of artificial intelligence and society, especially in security settings, as well as public sense-making and the governance of artificial intelligence.

Publications

Schmid S, Pham BC, Ferl AK. Trust in artificial intelligence: Producing ontological security through governmental visions. Cooperation and Conflict. 2024 Oct 19. Epub 2024 Oct 19. doi: 10.1177/00108367241288073

Davies S, (ed.), Schikowitz A, (ed.), Mora-Gámez F, (ed.), Goldberg E, (ed.), Dessewffy E, (ed.), Pham BC, (ed.) et al. Revisiting Reflexivity: Liveable Worlds in Research and Beyond. Bristol University Press, 2025. 272 p. (Dis-positions: Troubling Methods and Theory in STS).

Pham BC , Davies S. Policy as infrastructure: Enacting artificial intelligence and making Europe. In Klimburg-Witjes N, Trauttmansdorff P, editors, Technopolitics and the Making of Europe: Infrastructures of Security. London: Routledge, Taylor & Francis. 2024. p. 125–140 Epub 2023.

Pham BC , Davies S. What problems is the AI act solving? Technological solutionism, fundamental rights, and trustworthiness in European AI policy. Critical Policy Studies. 2024 Jul 2. Epub 2024 Jul 2. doi: 10.1080/19460171.2024.2373786

Schikowitz A , Dessewffy E , Davies S , Pham BC, Gregory K, Goldberg E et al. Writing Choreographies: (STS) Knowledge Production in Post- digital Academia. Tecnoscienza: Italian Journal of Science & Technology Studies. 2025 Jan;1.

Pham BC, Gregory K, Davies S , Schikowitz A , Dessewffy E, Goldberg E et al. Academic citizenship, together: Prioritising care and reflexivity in scholarly life. Journal of Praxis in Higher Education. 2024 Mar 5;6(2):66–79. 6. doi: 10.47989/kpdc478

Davies S , Pham BC. Luck and the ‘situations’ of research. Social Studies of Science. 2023 Apr;53(2):287-299. Epub 2022 Oct. doi: 10.1177/03063127221125438

Riegler N , Brockhaus M, Zogu G, Bumann N, Illes A, Wardemann RK et al.. Doctor it! Episode 9: Managing time 2023.

Avkiran AS , Pham BC, Holmer C, Schikowitz A , Dessewffy E , Mora-Gámez F et al. Pandemic Research: Reflecting an on auto-ethnography of mundane academic practice in pandemic times. In DIY Methods: A Mostly Screen-Free, Zine-Full, Remote- Participation Conference on Experimental Methods for Research and Research Exchange. The Low-Carbon Research Methods Group. 2022. p. 243-253

Dessewffy E , Pham BC. Reflecting on care in research: Using collaborative autoethnography to find our place as PhD students at the STS department University of Vienna. 2022.

Davies S , Pham BC , Dessewffy E , Schikowitz A , Mora-Gámez F. Pinboarding the Pandemic: Experiments in Representing Autoethnography. Catalyst: Feminism, Theory, Technoscience. 2022;8(2). doi: 10.28968/cftt.v8i2.38868