TIK news is back after a short break due to the flu, travels and the intensive planning of the TIK25 final seminar 4 December. Thus a bit long - but please stay put all the way to the deadlines at the end!
We are glad that both potential new rectors at the UiO have agreed to come and talk about the role of the UiO in the green transition. And thanks to all who contribute from TIK!
Remember to sign up - to seminar and party - and share the invitation! Det gr?nne skiftet – Hvor er det n?? Eksisterer det fortsatt? Og hva er veien videre?
Warm congratulations to B?rd Hob?k whose thesis “Efficient Fish: Controversies and problematizations of feed in Norwegian salmon farming, 1970- 2000” has been approved for defense for the ph.d. degree! The committee consists of Professor Hannah Landecker, Professor, UCLA, Associate Professor Terje Finstad, NTNU, and was chaired by our own Ana. Save 17 January in your calendars for the defense!
Next week Max Fochler, who is currently associate professor II at TIK, will visit TIK. He is a well known scholar in STS, primarily "forms of knowledge production at the interface of science and other societal domains (such as the economy), as well as on the impact of new forms of governing science on academic knowledge production" (from Univ. of Vienna website).
New research projects
Magnus and Silje T.'s project "Organising impact" is among the selected few that receives financing from the Norwegian Research Council's FORINNPOL programme.
Kristin is part of the project "Konflikthantering i klimatomst?llningen" that has received financing from the Swedish Research Council (Vetenskapsr?det). The PI is professor G?ran Sundquist, formerly TIK, now at the University of Gothenburg.
Congratulations!
Outreach og conference activitities
Diana participated in the Regional Studies Winter Conference in London next 6 – 7 November, where she chaired a discussion panel about planetary boundaries as points of reference for geographical research. This panel is inspired in the recently published paper titled ‘economic geography and planetary boundaries: embracing nature’s uncompromising call to action’ (https://doi.org/10.1016/j.peg.2024.100021). In the same conference, Diana also presented the results of her recent work on inclusive innovation in Belfast and Medellín.
Magnus and Silje's new project will follow up some of the research from OSIRIS. OSIRIS' final conference the 8 November was a great success: Hundrevis av sm? skritt skal til for at forskning kan gj?re en forskjell . Well done!
On 7 November around 50 guests found their way to Litteraturhuset (The House of Literature), where TIK and DIGIT (Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture, and Society) hosted a panel on society as a digital guinea pig with Lars Nyre (UiB), Malcolm Langford (UiO), Suhas Govind Joshi (UiO) and Lilly Pijnenburg Muller (King's College London/Guest Researcher at TIK). The event was organized by our PhDs Torjus, who also moderated the event, and Tanja as part of TIK25. Read more.
Publications
Helge's book "Norwegian oil rig history. Through smooth and stormy waters" receives very good reviews - Stavanger Aftenblad calls it an impressive work and the rig worker the foremost symbol of the modern Norwegian nation. Read the whole review i Norwegian here: /english/for-employees/unitpages/sv/tik/news/2024/rigghistorie.jpg
New publication! In a recently published book chapter titled ‘tourism and sustainability transitions: a scalar analysis of agency in Costa Rica’, Diana and her coauthor discuss how agency is mobilised across different scales to transform a Costa Rican region from agriculture and monocrops to a global example of nature-based tourism, recovering thousands of hectares of forest along the way, but creating spatial exclusions that remain to be solved. The book chapter (and the book), are open access and can be accessed here Tourism and Sustainability Transitions: A Scalar Analysis of Agency in Costa Rica | SpringerLink
A new STS encyclopedia has recently been published, with Kristin among the contributors: Elgar Encyclopedia of Science and Technology Studies .
PhD courses
20 PhD students from several institutions attended Kristin and Hilde's PhD course "Dokuprax: Dokumentanalyse og dokumentarbeid i demokrati, politikk og byr?krati" in the first week of November. In addition to lecture and writing exercises, the course visited the parliament.
13 PhD students will attend the STS introduction course the first week of December. You will meet the attendants at the TIK25 event as this is part of the course! Tone is responsible for the course.
Other upcoming events
- 5 December TIK Board meeting
- 6 December PhD final seminar of Lisa
- 12 December PhD midway seminar of Chantale
- 17 December Network gathering: Oil & Society, co-organized by B?rd
- 18 December Staff meeting and Christmas lunch
- 8 January (new date) PhD final seminar of J?rgen
Student excursion
As part of the introductory course TIK4001 the students are regularly on visits to different professional actors outside the university. The students thus get a glimpse of how their fields of study is put into practice on a daily basis. E.g. how different actors work with innovation or how knowledge is produced. An impressive range of actors welcome our students: Deloitte, the laboratory of Centre for Ecological and Evolutionary Synthesis at the UiO, Lillestr?m municipality, Green Producers' Club.
Innovation Certificate
20 candidates passed the oral group exam part of the final exam in TIK2000 – Innovation and Society, and their written submissions are subject to evaluation the coming weeks. The student feedback is positive, with the initial group expressing satisfaction with the course overall. The course evaluation report will be published after it has ended.
Registration for our brand new elective courses, TIK2111 – Innovation and Sustainability Transitions and TIK2201 – Innovation in The Life Sciences and Social Change, open on December 3. Students in the introductory course, TIK2000, were presented the elective courses on the day of their oral group exam.
Deadlines
- For travel and expense claims to be paid in 2024, they must be registered and sent in DF? by 25 November the latest! The last payment of travel and expense claims is the 19 December.
- For suggesting new publication channels for the Norwegian register for scientific journals, series and publishers: 30 November
- For PhD candidates to send in posters for the exhibition at the TIK25 final seminar and party: 2 December
- Finalized exam assignment in TIK4001 – Teknologi, innovasjon og kunnskap: 2 December