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Congratulations to Ana on her application sent to the RCN, "DataMines: Governing data infrastructures and clouds in digitally mediated natural resources extraction and exploitation"! Good luck!
Congratulations to Helge on the publication of his book "Norwegian oil rig history. Through smooth and stormy waters." The book is a result of a 2 1/2 year cooperation project between TIK and the Norwegian Petroleum Museum in Stavanger.
Next week Kristin is keynote speaker at the conference Social studies of energy and the making and unmaking of energy resources held by the Danish Association for Science and Technology Studies. B?rd will participate with a paper.
Eilert Sundt lecture and workshop
A fully packed auditorium attended professor Timothy Mitchell's lecture "Oil, climate crisis, and the alibi of growth".
On Wednesday 23 October professor Mitchell and Kristin held a rewarding workshop for both TIK researchers and other interested academics. After the workshop a cross disciplinary network for oil researchers were launched, Oil and society. Please contact B?rd if you want to know more!
Kristin thanks Lara and Annemieke (from the faculty administration) for their support with the practical matters around these events.
TIK has with the honorary doctorate to Marion Fourcade and now the Eilert Sundt lecturer Timothy Mitchell put our mark on two important events at the Faculty of Social Sciences this year. To all involved - well done!
Email changes
Kind reminder about the need to go through email and remove red data before Outlook is moved to a cloud solution 12 November!
Time to clean up your email! - For employees - University of Oslo
Upcoming events
31 October: PhD final seminar: Gro Stueland Skorpen
6 November: Knut J?rgen Vie: "Denial and forgetfulness: The history and social practices of research ethics"
7 November: Samfunnet som digital pr?vekanin – Panelsamtale p? Litteraturhuset
8 November - complete program coming next week: R-QUEST and OSIRIS final conference
- The conference is almost fully booked - do remember to register soon if you want to attend!
9 November: Presentation techniques for researchers when meeting the press
Researchers at the Faculty of Social Sciences (SV) are offered a course in presentation techniques related to meeting journalists.
More information and registration:
Course: Presentation and Interview Techniques - Faculty of Social Sciences
TIK Board
The board met Thursday 24 October. The main points on the agenda were the budget for next year and how the economic situation will develop in the coming 5 year period, as well as the activity plan for 2025-2027.
The board discussed the conditions and possibilities for TIK's staff to continue the lasting good results on acquiring external research funding and by this funds to cover the centre's permanent costs. The board's discussion also emphasized the importance of the teaching capacity and the obstacles the centre meets today in order to develop this according to our wishes.
As for the activity plan, the board was concerned with the activities around the teaching activities. The leadership will involve the students in identifying obstacles and possible solutions for the students progression. A first impression is that conditions around the the master thesis will be looked at. The board was also concerned about the follow up of the program evaluation of the master programs and will be more informed about this in a later meeting.