Next week is partly public holiday due to Easter (Thursday 17 April - Monday 21 April). Inger-Johanne will be at TIK Monday-Wednesday. The rest of the administration will be out of office.
Last Friday, Kasper Rogde S?yland handed in his PhD thesis titled "The Aluminium Industry in Holmestrand. Innovation and Structural Change in Norwegian Fabrication 1917–2024". Congratulations!
Congratulations to Ana on being awarded a new FRIPRO project: "DataMines: Governing data infrastructures and clouds in digitally mediated natural resources extraction and exploitation". The project aims to map the digitalization of biodiversity's genetic resources in both Norway and Brazil, with a specific focus on how this digital transformation impacts and challenges existing legal frameworks and governance mechanisms. Read more about the project here.
TIK is with Ana and Fulvio's project the only department at the Faculty of Social Sciences having succeeded in the FRIPRO competition - research projects based on groundbreaking excellence - after the RCN changed their application procedures last year. This is a bright feather in the hat to the researchers and research administration at TIK!
Recent publications
Allan and Kejia are two of the co-authors of the recently published article "The acceleration of low-carbon transitions: Insights, concepts, challenges, and new directions for research" in Energy Research & Social Science.
Amir has published "Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies" in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
Gro and Hilde have published the article "Making space for digital statecraft. The work of consultancy models in an audit of police digitalisation" in the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies.
Markus and H?kon have co-authored the article "Changes in road safety following regional administrative reforms in Norway" in Accident Analysis and Prevention.
Markus has co-authored this editorial in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions: "Geographies of mission-oriented innovation policy"
Stine has published "On Green Swans and Catastrophic Futures: Climate change as risk and uncertainty in central banking" in Valuation Studies.
Taran is co-author on "Becoming Similar, but Drifting Apart: Partnerships Between Universities and Public Research Organizations" published in Minerva.
Kristin is editor and has written the introduction to a special issue of valuation studies on valuation and critique in the good economy together with Liliana Doganova:
ttps://valuationstudies.liu.se/issue/view/496
If you also have a new publication, please register it in Cristin!
Cooperation and outreach activities
Tanja is on a research stay at the University of Cambridge from 7 April to the end of June.
Kristin was at SCORE, Stockholm University this week. While in Sweden she was also giving a lecture at the University of Uppsala.
Recruiting
The deadline for the post doctor fellowship at the "Stakes of Democracy" project is Tuesday 22 April:
Postdoctoral Fellow in STS/Cultural History (275135) | University of Oslo
Upcoming events
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22 April, 13:00-14:45
PhD midway seminar of Elisabeth Fosseli Olsen: "Fighting Poverty with Finance: Rethinking Impact Investing in Tanzania" -
5 May, 15:00-17:00
Celebrating this year's master candidates, Kitchen area - 6 May
TIK publication lunch (more info TBA) - 16 May
Oil & Society network gathering: Oil and finance - 16 June, 13:15-15:00
PhD final seminar of Benjamin Donald Smith - 25 June, 12:15-14:00
PhD final seminar of Tanja Knaus - See also the Science Studies Colloquium Series event calendar for upcoming talks by Vibeke Pihl and others.
Remember your card when using the staircases
Changes to access permissions - For employees - University of Oslo
Scholarship announcements
The Science Studies Colloquium (Forum for vitenskapsteori) has announced master and qualification scholarships for spring 2025 (application deadline: 1 June). We appreciate help in spreading information to relevant persons. More information here.
Vacation applications
We have all received an email from about the deadline 1 May for applying for the main holiday period, i.e. the summer vacations. Even though we are not maintaining the deadline 1 May very strict at TIK, we ask all to register their vacations each year. The general rule is that we are obliged to take as much vacation as we have earned holiday pay the precedent year. E.g. when we have worked a complete calendar year in 100 % we have 25 full days of vacation the following year.
For guidelines on how to apply: Requests for absence | DF?
For more information about the regulation of holidays: Holiday - For employees - University of Oslo