Harald A. Mieg

Harald Ludwig Albert (Alard) Mieg (August 8, 1961 in Munich) is a German social scientist and editor of scientific compendia. 
== Life ==
Harald A. Mieg grew up in Deisenhofen near Munich. He comes from the widely documented and branched Mieg family with roots in AlsaceCarl Banzhaf (1925): Die Mieg's und ihr Geschlecht, Stuttgart. Philippe Mieg (1934): Histoire généalogique de la famille Mieg 1395-1934, Mulhouse. and is related, for example, to the Swiss composer Peter Mieg. Mieg is an honorary professor of geography at Humboldt University of Berlin, and the president of the Berlin Society for the Study of Science. He is married, has two children, and lives with his family in Berlin.
== Studies ==
Harald Mieg studied psychology, mathematics, and philosophy at the Universities of Munich, Paris Sorbonne, Vienna, and Mannheim. He obtained a PhD in social psychology at the University of Mannheim (with Martin Irle) and his habilitation in social environmental sciences at ETH Zurich, the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology (with Roland W. Scholz). He served as assistant in philosophy (to Harald Delius, Mannheim) and was a visiting scholar at the University of Chicago (with Andrew Abbott, sociology).
== Work ==
Harald Mieg has published numerous review works that serve to define research fields. Mieg's work links issues of learning (e.g., higher education, interdisciplinarity, professionalism) and planning (urban, corporate and political planning). The guiding question is what kinds of expertise and knowledge enable people to plan effectively - and what role sciences can play in this process.Conclusions for management with experts. In: H. A. Mieg (2001), The Social Psychology of Expertise. Mahwah, NJ, pp. 162-177.
Since the 1990s, Mieg has been active in promoting and implementing student research (learning by research, research-based learning) at an international scale. He assisted and advised universities in SwitzerlandAt the Swiss Federal Institute of Technology, Zurich: Mieg, Harald A. (1996). Managing the interfaces between science, industry, and education. In: UNESCO (Ed.), World Congress of Engineering Educators and Industry Leaders (Vol. I, pp. 529-533). Paris: UNESCO. , GermanyGerman national project "ForschenLernen" (2014-2017): , and AustriaMieg, Harald A. (2019). The development of research-based teaching and learning and the internationalization prospects through learning by research/undergraduate research. Report to the Austrian Federal Ministry of Education, Science and Research (BMBWF). , particularly on community-based student research for sustainable developmentMieg, Harald A. (2000). University-based projects for local sustainable development: Designing expert roles and collective reasoning. International Journal of Sustainability in Higher Education, 1, 67-82. Scholz, Roland W., Mieg, Harald A., & Oswald, Jenny (2000). Transdisciplinarity in groundwater management: Towards mutual learning of science and society. Water, Air, & Soil Pollution, 123, 477-487.. In 2021, he initiated the Paris Statement on Digital Undergraduate Research. He was lead editor of the Cambridge Handbook on Undergraduate Research, in cooperation with the US Council on Undergraduate Research CUR.
== Varia ==
2002 Founding of the non-profit foundation "Stiftung Herdforschung Rosemarie Mieg" for research into the relationship between oral pathologies and general diseases (e.g., Focal infection theory).
== Publications ==
=== Monographs (selection) ==
* Computers as experts? On the non-existence of expert systems. Peter Lang, Frankfurt/New York 1993, ISBN: 9783631427484. 
* The social psychology of expertise: Case studies in research, professional domains, and expert roles. Lawrence Erlbaum, Mahwah 2001, ISBN: 9780415652766.
=== Edited Works (selection) ===
* Harald A. Mieg, Klaus Töpfer (Eds.) (2013): Institutional and social innovation for sustainable urban development. London: Earthscan. ISBN: 9781138780552.
* Heike Oevermann, Harald A. Mieg (Eds.) (2015): Industrial heritage sites in transformation: Clash of discourses. London: Routledge. ISBN: 9780815347002.
* Harald A. Mieg (Ed.) (2019): Inquiry-based learning — undergraduate research: The German multidisciplinary experience. Cham: Springer. ISBN: 9783030142223.
* Harald A. Mieg, Elizabeth Ambos, Angela Brew, Dominique M. Galli, Judith Lehmann (Eds.) (2022): The Cambridge handbook of undergraduate research. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781108835923.
* Harald A. Mieg (Ed.) (2022): The responsibility of science. Cham: Springer. ISBN: 9783030915964.
Category:1961 births 
Category:German social scientists
Category:German editors
Category:People from Munich