Laura von Welczeck
About
Laura von Welczeck is a research associate in the research group “Reorganisation of Knowledge Practices“ since 2025. She studied information systems, sociology, and business administration in Berlin, Stuttgart and Edinburgh. In her work, she uses neo-institutional and process-theoretical perspectives to explore phenomena of digitalisation and datafication, particularly in public administration. She is particularly interested in the future visions, potentials and expectations associated with digital technologies and data.
During her studies, she worked at the Department of Information Systems at Freie Universität Berlin and at the Max Planck Institute for the History of Science. Here, she was part of the BMG-funded projects „Maturity Model for the Digitalisation of Public Health Agencies“ (2021-2022) and „Assessment and Evaluation of the Digital Maturity of Public Health Agencies“ (2022-2025), as well as the BMBF-funded project „Modelling Socio-Epistemic Networks" (2021-2024).
She is part of the scientific editorial team of the social science YouTube format „Menschen und Muster“, produced by Rundfunk Berlin-Brandenburg in cooperation with the Weizenbaum Institute.
Research Group: Reorganization of Knowledge Practices
Fields of Research
Laura von Welczeck researches:
- Digital Transformation
- Neo-Institutionalism
- Process Theory
- Public (Health) Administration
- Science Studies
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Selected Publications
Recent Publications
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Weiß, L.; von Welczeck, L.; Vogl, M.; Düring, M.; Kaye, A.; Schmitz, J.; Schlattmann, R.; & Buarque, B. (2025). Past, Present, and Future of HNR: Reflections on the Practices and Methods in Historical Network Research Based on an Online Survey, Journal of Historical Network Research, 11, pp. 42-70.
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Eymann, T., Wolf, A.L., Schick, D., Schlömer, N., von Welczeck, L. (2024). Digitale Technologien im Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst: Das Reifegradmodell als Mess- und Managementinstrument der digitalen Transformation. In: M.A Pfannstiel (Eds.). Technologien und Technologiemanagement im Gesundheitswesen, Springer, Wiesbaden, pp. 251-272.
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Kaye, A.; Schlattmann, R.; Vogl, M.; Buarque, B.; Schmitz, J.; Weiß, L.; & von Welczeck, L. (2024). Socio-Epistemic Networks: A Framework for History of Knowledge. In C.A. Lerg, J. Östling, J. Weiß, A. Kwaschik, & C. Roesch (Eds.). History of Intellectual Culture 3/2024: Experimental Spaces: Knowledge Production and its Environments in the Long Nineteenth Century, Berlin, Boston: De Gruyter Oldenbourg, pp. 253-274.
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Eymann, T.; Fürstenau, D.; Gersch, M.; Kaufmann, A.; Neubauer, M.; Schick, D.; Schlömer, N; Schulte-Althoff, M.; Stark, J.; & von Welczeck, L. (2023). Das Reifegradmodell für den Öffentlichen Gesundheitsdienst – Ein Instrument zur Erfassung und Verbesserung des digitalen Reifegrades von deutschen Gesundheitsämtern, Bundesgesundheitsblatt, 66(2), pp. 136-142.
Recent Presentations
- Schlömer, N.; von Welczeck, L.; Kleinaltenkamp, M.; Gersch, M.; Fürstenau, D. (2025, July 26). Performing Potential: Digitalisation as a Future Imaginary in Germany's Public Sector [Paper Development Workshop]. 85th Annual Meeting of the Academy of Management, Copenhagen, Denmark
- Schlömer, N. & von Welczeck, L. (2024, July 4). Making sense of Digital Futures: Digital Transformation in Germany's Public Health Sector [Conference presentation]. 40th EGOS Colloquium, Milano.