Congratulations to Stine and Gro for submitting their PhD theses, "What climate change is to finance. An investigation into value and the notion of climate risk" and "Looking into the digital state. An ethnography of audit" respectively.
Congratulations as well to Tone Huse on a new position - she will join OsloMet and the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) as Head of Research, leading the division Housing, Place and Regional Studies, from 1 January. Until then, she will continue as PI for UrbTrans.
30 April was the last day for Hilde at TIK. From May on she is now full time associate professor at Department of Linguistics and Nordic Studies at the Faculty of Humanities. We wish her good luck and hope to see her from time to time at TIK events.
Staff meeting 21 May
Please remember to register for the staff seminar on 21 May by confirming the calendar invitation. Supervising and the different functions related to teaching will be part of the program.
Research projects, cooperation and outreach activities
Kristin will be in Munich the latter half of this week and give an keynote at the Technical University.
Kristin is part of a project that has received support from the RCN in the financing scheme of innovation projects for the industrial sector. The project is "Orion - Translating impact from vague assumptions to an intangible value in the P&L", led by Northstar - Impact Analytics AS.
Magnus held the opening talk at OsloMet and H?yskolen Kristiania's seminar Din forskning som drivkraft for samfunnsendringer last week.
Fulvio is at IMT School for Advanced Studies Lucca next week and invited with Arvid Raknerud to the Visiting Professor seminar series on Tuesday, May 6. You can also attend the seminar via the following link: http://imt.lu/aula2
Title: R&D networks, knowledge spillovers and innovation performance.
Abstract at the seminar page: R&D networks, knowledge spillovers and innovation performance | Scuola IMT Alti Studi Lucca
The paper is a result of the OSIRIS project.
From May 6 to 9, Diana will participate in the Regional Studies Association annual conference at the University of Porto. She will be presenting two papers: one discussing how to define and deliver inclusive innovation in Innovation Districts, and the other exploring local policy responses to climate change adaptation, along with the pressures to scale up and mobilise these strategies.
8 May Tone D will co chair a panel discussion on the political situation in the USA and the consequences for research ethics in Norway and Europe: Panelsamtale: USA, akademisk frihet og forskningsetiske utfordringer - OsloMet
PhD candidate Elisabeth has had this oped in Panorama Nyheter:
Diana has released an edited book titled “Territorial Development in Latin America: Cultural, Economic and Environmental Dimensions.” This work examines how traditional, economic-centred development strategies often fall short in addressing critical issues such as social inequality and climate change. This is a second edition and an English translation of a book published in Spanish with the same title in 2022.
The book is divided into two parts. The first part provides a historical background along with theoretical and methodological reflections on development, growth, and decolonial approaches. The second part features a series of case studies that explore how territorial development can reshape our approach to tackling societal challenges.
On May 21 at 16:00 BST / 17:00 CEST, there will be a webinar to launch the book and engage in a discussion with the authors of the various papers. Please join us:
?Webinar registration https://lnkd.in/d8JE7dni
? Access the book: https://lnkd.in/dvmA5BqH
?Here you can also find a related paper that expands on these themes and offers further insights into our findings https://lnkd.in/dX7AFMKu
Kristin has published a commentary on the current challenges for research in Klassekampen Fiendskap mot vitenskap .
If you have a new publication, please register it in Cristin!
Publication lunch 6 May
Do not miss this week's publication lunch:
Gro will present an article co-authored with Hilde R. and published in the Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies: Making space for digital statecraft: The work of consultancy models in an audit of police digitalisation
Comments by Markus.
Amir will present Run with the hare and hunt with the hounds: Hybrid technologies' multifaceted role in the transition from incumbent to emerging technologies, an article recently published in Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions. Tokhir will comment.
TIK board
The TIK board's meeting next Tuesday 6 May will have the following items on the agenda: a discussion about the publishing activity at TIK, a policy for permitting post doctors to apply for external research funding (the policy in English is linked in the agenda below), and announcement of PhD positions in the AIP and ORGIMP projects.
https://www.sv.uio.no/tik/om/organisasjon/tikstyret/styredokumenter/2025/250506-saksliste.html
The TIK board will in the next meeting be informed about how the financial situation is after the first 4 months of the year. In general the university is facing a more difficult economy in the near future: Universitetsdirekt?ren varslar t?ffare ?konomiske tider for UiO - Uniforum
Recruiting
There were 52 applications within the deadline for the post doctor fellowship at the "Stakes of Democracy" project Tuesday 22 April.
The hiring process for a temporary associate professor (replacing Kristin while she is centre director) is still running. Trial lectures and interviews are scheduled next week at the Dept of Sociology and Human Geography, the department responsible for the administrative handling of the process. We expect a decision from the Faculty Board on 22 June.
The trial lectures will be held in Norwegian.
Pr?veforelesninger avholdes i fellesarealet, 2. etasje, Harriet Holters hus. Det er ogs? mulig ? delta via zoom:
- onsdag 7. mai kl. 9.15-10: B?rd Lahn
https://uio.zoom.us/j/66143811061?pwd=ywHa9nboZfA4QYOXcr95CglYNUbYWZ.1
- torsdag 8. mai kl. 9.15-10: Daniel Normark
https://uio.zoom.us/j/65491196812?pwd=ykjMr0odrDgNsHsbrD5p6v3alghW0v.1
Forelesningen b?r innrettes for et publikum av f?rste semester masterstudenter.
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
More upcoming events
- 21 May
Staff meeting - 28 May, 9:30.11:15
PhD final seminar of Marie Stilling - 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.
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.