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So we have a...

I'm involved in a recently started, uh, Marie Curie project, uh, called Voice Communication Sciences, uh, or VoCS, and I have a one, one PhD student work- working there, and she's basically working to understand how humans are doing, uh, defect detection.

So we are kind of like trying to model the, the human uncertainties and decision processes and human-in-the-loop kind of like things, which involves things like, you know, cognitive, um, neuroscience aspects and this kind of like human decision-making, which is completely different from the automatic systems.

Uh, so I, I would, uh, I, I, I personally think that there is a lot of scope on, uh, going, uh, let's say, looking beyond the automatic systems and also, and not forgetting the basic sciences on the neural communication and the phon-phonetical sciences, all of that.

The first one funded by the German Academic Exchange Service.

The second one was Marie Curie.

And they had slightly different foci.

And I mainly worked at the field station of Uppsala University, the Aachen Laboratory, which is at a beautiful lake, roughly an hour's drive from Uppsala, where most of my work has happened.

Our discussion is around her latest monography, Welfare Work Without Welfare: Women and Austerity in Interwar Bucharest, published by De Gruyter Brill in 2025 in open access.

Alexandra Gitz is a Marie Curie postdoctoral fellow at the Leibniz Institute for the History and Culture of Eastern Europe.

Her research interests include women's labor history and the history and sociology of social policy.

Alexandra Gitz, welcome to our podcast.