Maria Weickardt Soares, M.A.
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Doctoral Research Associate
NameMaria Weickardt Soares M.A.
in the research project FRAMENET
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Maria Weickardt Soares is a research associate and PhD Candidate at the Chair of International Politics at the Institute of Political Science at TU Dresden. In the trinational research project 'Framenet'', she focuses on current and historical discourses and networks in global health. Before joining TU Dresden, she already worked for the research group 'Global Humanitarian Medicine' at the Social Science Research Center Berlin, the Alexander von Humboldt Institute for Internet and Society, the University of Liverpool and the Goethe Institute Brazil.
Maria Weickardt Soares holds an M.A. in Political Science from Freie Universität Berlin and a B.A. in Political Science as well as Media and Communication Studies from Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg (MLU). During her studies, she spent a semester abroad in Hyderabad, India. She also lived in Brazil for two years, where she worked primarily as a tutor and academic lecturer for German, English, and Brazilian Portuguese. She is a member of the Global Health Hub Germany and is involved in public health policy in Brazil.
Her research interests include international institutions, clashes of norms, health inequality discourses and theories, North-South disparities in global health, and critical, poststructuralist, and discourse analytic approaches to inter- and transnational politics.
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Publications
Julia Hellmer, Maria Weickardt Soares, Claire Galesne (2019): “Expertise Macht Politik”, WZB Mitteilungen 166, Schwerpunktheft “Haben, Nehmen, Lassen”, https://bibliothek.wzb.eu/artikel/2019/f-22614.pdf.
Exhibitions
„Kindersoldat*in: Opfer oder Täter*in?“, Online-Ausstellung zur medialen Perzeption von Kindersoldat:innen, Berlin (Germany), 05/2019 (mit Cornelia Hinderks, Saskia Kunert, Laura Meijer, Jana Noelke).
Conferences
International Studies Association Annual Conference 2023, Montreal, panelist for "Methods, Measures, and Data in the Study of International Organizations" and presentation of the paper "Discourse Networks in Health Data and Biobanking Governance: Explaining Policies on the Global Circulation of Human Specimens and Data" (together with Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter).
6th International Academic Conference on Research in Social Sciences 2023, Oxford, presentation about the dissertation: "International organisations as gatekeepers of epistemic (in)justice? A Critical Policy Discourse Analysis on health data inequality within the World Health Organisation".
APSA Annual Convention 2022, Panelist for "Tracing Actor and Frame Interdependence in Global Policy Networks" and presentation of the paper: "Human bodies unleashed – Evolving debates on the global circulation of human specimens and health data".
Plenary Lectures/Workshops
Dresdner Seniorenakademie (23.02.2023), lecture on "The international health system - lessons from the pandemic".
Global Health Summer School (16 to 23.07.2022), workshop on "Digitalisation and data - necessity, empowerment or surveillance".
Lectures
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B.A./M.A. seminar "International Theories of the Global South: Critical Analysis of current Human Rights Discourse", winter term 2022/2023, Technische Universität Dresden B.A./M.A. research seminar "Health Equity Between Aspiration and Reality: Global Processes and Local Realities", summer term 2022, together with Prof. Dr. Anna Holzscheiter, Technische Universität Dresden B.A./M.A. seminar "Introduction to Global Health", summer term 2022, Technische Universität Dresden |