In the same year Ernest Braun, together with the late Bill Williams and Michael Gibbons founded an interuniversity group known as “Science in a Social Context” (SISCON).

This group obtained some funding and hired research fellows who produced teaching texts published by Butterworth.

The purpose was to assist in the teaching of social aspects of science and technology to undergraduates in a variety of disciplines.

The TPU at Aston University started an MSc course under the title “Social Aspects of Science and Technology” and also recruited several doctoral students.

In 1988, this group became the Technology Assessment Unit (FTB), headed by him till his retirement from the OAW in 1991, when he returned to England.

When he finally retired in 1994 he lived for five years in Portugal and in 2010 moved to Austria with his wife Doris (née Luttenberger), a painter.

This short biography is based on an autographic curriculum vitae by E. Braun as well as research carried out at the Institute of Technology Assessment in Vienna, among others published in this article (in German): Nentwich/Peissl, 2005, 20 Jahre Technikfolgenabschätzung in Österreich.