People news
Caroline will visit the Department of Food and Resource Economics (IFRO) at the Faculty of Science, University of Copenhagen, the week 7-11 October. She will work with Allan Dahl Andersen.
Anna Jensine Arntzen is a visiting PhD candidate at TIK until new year. She is part of the UrbTrans project, with Tone Huse as main supervisor, and Martin Refseth as PhD colleague. Her thesis is within STS and is about city planning in Nuuk, Greenland, and what consequences colonialism has today. Anna is employed at UiT The Arctic University of Norway (Troms?), and has been at Ilisimatusarfik (University of Greenland) and in Nuuk for two years of her PhD period. She is now in her last semester.
Ana is interviewed in this week's newsletter from the faculty: Kort m?te med Ana Maria Delgado Aleman
Please also remember that it is not too late to sign up for the birthday calendar on the fridge door!
Reporting deadlines
Two deadlines for progress reports not to miss on 1 October:
- The annual report from PhD candidates and supervisors on the status and progression of the PhD project. Your input is valuable to TIK and the Faculty of Social Sciences to develop and improve the PhD education. Please contact Lara if you have practical questions about the report, and Tone for academic questions.
- PIs to the Norwegian Research Council. Ingrid assisted by Ole Magnus provide information about project employment status, funding and accountability
Master course responsibles: Petter would also like to remind you that they are asked to submit finalized course descriptions by 7October!
UiO email changes and need for autumn cleaning
UiO will migrate email and calendar data to Microsoft 365 (Exchange Online). All employees are asked to go through our current email and sort what should be kept and what can and should be deleted. The most important data that cannot be migrated are "red data", i.e. data that require protection such as data containing special categories of personal data or other sensitive information.
More information is available at Let's get started! Clean up your emails before the move to MS365. On this page you will also find advices on how to proceed with the search for red data: Help! I must clean up my e-mail.
There will be zoom-courses on cleaning up the emails 30 September, 2 and 3 October: IT-kurs and the IT helpdesk is available: IT Help – your single point of contact for all IT user support at UiO
The migration will take place 12 November, please spare 30-40 minutes during October for a search and delete session, and much should be done! When the migration is done we shall find the same email program Outlook and the mail we have not deleted.
Publication launch
The first publication launch was held Wednesday this week.
- J?rgen commented and interviewed Stine on an article she and Kristin wrote together, and which was recently published in the Journal of Cultural Economy: The politics of climate risk: How the climate issue is turned into a risk issue through the little tools and operations of finance - Engen & Asdal.
- Daniela commented and interviewed Taran about Behind the scenes: Politics and pragmatism in formulating mission-oriented innovation policies in a national context - Normann, Svartefoss & Thune, which was co-authored with Silje Svartefoss and H?kon Endresen Normann and just got published in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
Teknovat?ren magazine
Students and a few staff were present when Teknovat?ren launched their last issue, Dis-Connection, Issue 26 - Teknovat?ren (teknovatoren.no). The magazine presents a nice mix of students' and staff's articles, and is in its 13th year a proof of the good academic connection (pun unintended) between students and staff at TIK.
Innovation and Society - bachelor teaching
Well into the first teaching semester of the Innovation Certificate, we have a student body of app. 20 very active students in the introductory course TIK2000 – Innovation and Society, and almost all of them have applied for the certificate.
The certificate, and thus the mandatory introduction course, are meant for students from the whole university and aim to help students understand innovation and their role in it in relation to their respective academic backgrounds.
Activities like company visits, case studies, and interdisciplinary collaboration, will enhance the students' analytical skills, creativity, critical thinking, and presentation abilities.
The students have by now visited IgNite - the students activities/methods lab at the Faculty of Mathematics and Natural sciences, IgNite - Det matematisk-naturvitenskapelige fakultet (uio.no) and Lillestr?m Municipality, where TIK master Jonas V. Olafsen presented how the municipality works with innovation.
In a later TIK news we will give you a glimpse into the activities at the master introduction course TIK4001.
Autumn vacations
Kristin is on vacation 27 September - 8 October. If anyone else is planning autumn vacation, please remember to register in the DF? portal: Attendance and absence | DF? (dfo.no)
Eilert Sundt lecture 2024
22 October 14.15-16.00 TIK is hosting the Faculty of Social Sciences annual Eilert Sundt lecture.
This year's lecturer will be professor Timothy Mitchell, University of Columbia, Timothy Mitchell | MESAAS (columbia.edu).
The Eilert Sundt Lecture 2024: Oil, climate crisis, and the alibi of growth
Professor Mitchell will also host a workshop at TIK on the 23 October. More information will follow - keep the date!
Other upcoming events
- 26 September 13-14.30
STS Methods Lab: Technologies of Colonialism? Towards thinking with(in), through(out) and (in)between colonialism(s) and context(s) with Prashanti Mayfield. - 27 September - 31 October
Tanja Knaus and Torjus Eckhoff are organizing the reading group The World as a Testbed – Online Reading Group with with professor Noortje Marres. - Kurs i kronikkskriving - SV-fakultetet
- Deadline for registration 1 October. In English spring 2025!
- Kurs: Skriv en god kronikk - Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet (uio.no)
- 10 October 13-14.30
STS Methods Lab: Fiction as a Method in STS with Geoffrey C. Bowker and Bodhisattva Chattopadhyay. - 11 October 14.15-15.30
Infrastructures must die. Guest lecture with Professor Geoffrey C. Bowker, University of California at Irvine. - PhD midway seminar of Silje Svartefoss on 18 October.?
- PhD final seminar of Gro Stueland Skorpen? on 31 October.
- 6 November 14.15-15.30
Knut J?rgen Vie: "Denial and forgetfulness: The history and social practices of research ethics" - 8 November
Closing conference OSIRIS: Registration and program at R-QUEST and OSIRIS final conference
UiO courses in research data management
Registration is mandatory - links are found on each event web page.
- Plan your research data management, 8 October 09.00 – 12.00
- Share, archive and reuse research data, 9 October 09.00 – 12.00
- Planlegging av forskningsdatah?ndtering, 13 November 09.00 – 12.00
- Del, arkiver og gjenbruk forskningsdata, 14 November 09.00 – 12.00