HI, I'M SIMY


Ph.D, she/her. I'm a PostDoc in the section for Technologies in Practice at the IT University of Copenhagen, and I primarily research all things schooling and digitalisation through Science and Technology Studies (STS), critical education studies, and media studies approaches. In addition, my interests span philosophy of science and technology, epistemology, experimental practice, and feminist and decolonial STS.

Crouching in front of a mirror on a decorative table in the old nuclear reactor at KTH. Photo: Emilie Groth, 2025

PUBLICATIONS


Douglas-Jones, R., Cakici, B., Cohn, M., Gahoonia, S. K., Ojala, M., & Laursen, C. S. (2024). Spaceships and Poetry: Enlivening the Lab as a Site of Feminist Critical Pedagogy. Engaging Science, Technology and Society. https://doi.org/10.17351/ests2023.1915


Gahoonia, S. K.(2024). Chapter 7 Matters of subjects: the digital citizen in technology comprehension. In J. Perriam & K. M. Kjær (Eds.), Digitalization in Practice. DeGruyter. https://doi.org/10.1515/9783110787641-008


Gahoonia, S. K.(2024). Technology Comprehension In-The-Making: Discipline-ing, Translating, Prototyping. [PhD thesis, IT University of Copenhagen]. https://pure.itu.dk/da/publications/technology-comprehension-in-the-making-discipline-ing-translating


Gahoonia, S. K.& Gad, C. (2024). Prototypes All the Way Down: Prototyping in the Teaching and Development of Technology Comprehension. STS Encounters 16(1). https://doi.org/10.7146/stse.v16i1.145136


Gahoonia, S. K.(2023). Makers, Not Users: Inscriptions of Design in the Development of Postdigital Technology Education. Postdigital Science and Education. https://doi.org/10.1007/s42438-023-00431-7


Henriksen, L., Kjær, K. M., Blønd, M., Cohn, M., Cakici, B., Douglas-Jones, R., Ferreira, P., Feshak, V., Gahoonia, S. K., & Sandbukt, S. (2021). Writing bodies and bodies of text: Thinking vulnerability through monsters. Gender, Work and Organization. https://doi.org/10.1111/gwao.12782


Gahoonia, S. K., Ferreira, P., Cohn, M., Henriksen, L., Kjær, K. M., Hockenhull, M., Cakici, B., Blønd, M., Douglas-Jones, R., Laursen, C. S., & Zell, S. (2020). Upon Not Opening The Black Box. Extended Abstracts of the 2020 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems, 1–9. https://doi.org/10.1145/3334480.3381813