People news
Welcome to Ola Innset, who has started a two year-position at TIK to write a book on the history of economics in Norway. Ola holds a PhD in history, has worked with outreach at the National Library of Norway and as a postdoc at BI. His PhD dissertation was published as "Reinventing Liberalism. The Politics, Philosophy and Economics of Early Neoliberalism (1920-1947)", and he has published the monograph "Markedsvendingen – Nyliberalismens historie i Norge" (both 2020). At BI, he researched the governance of partially state-owned companies that are publicly listed, while continuing to publish about aspects of the intellectual history of neoliberalism, Norwegian economic policy, and eventually also "the green shift." Moreover, he is a writer of novels – the latest one titled "Moss" (2024) and "Under Moss" is coming this fall. Right now, he has a nonfiction book out called "Kampen om verdiene" (2024).
On 5 June, Erlend and Kristin received their PhD diplomas in the University Aula!
Congratulations to Petter, who successfully completed his Master in Media Development with a specialization in Nonfiction at OsloMet with his thesis "From Aristotle to Algorithms. A Comparative Study of Argumentation in Human-Written and Machine-Generated Nonfiction Texts on Science and Digital Media Metaphors"!
Research, cooperation and dissemination
The news just got in that both the AI centers that TIK are part of will be funded by RCN and become two of the six new AI centres!
Kristin coordinates The Norwegian Centre for Trustworthy AI, that involves TIK researchers from both STS and Innovation and is led by Arnoldo Frigessi (UiO), whereas Fulvio and Markus are part of Sustainable, Risk-averse and Ethical AI, which is led by Baltasar Beferull-Lozano (Simula).
11- 13 June, the 7th Nordic STS Conference is held in Stockholm and several members of TIK's STS research group are represented in the program.
Taran served as opponent at Matthijs Mouthaan's public defense of his PhD thesis "Solid numbers in a fluid world: The role of quantification in transformative marine governance" at Utrecht University on 19 May.
On 27 May, Hilde and Kristin hosted a workshop for the Norwegian Board of Health Supervision (Helsetilsynet) as part of the SPARK Social Innovation DOKUPRAX project.
Taran, Silje and Diana travelled to Austria 25 - 27 May, when INTRANSIT organized a workshop at Innsbruck University (visiting INTRANSIT’s co-director Prof. Birthe Soppe). The first two days was the annual research retreat for the INTRANSIT consortium, and the third day was a research workshop on the topic “Transitions and Organizations: Exploring the Complexities of Change” . The latter event is part of the INTRANSIT group’s initiatives to facilitate better connections between organization theory and sustainability transitions research communities.
Ana and Anna-Katharina held the second part of their sold out FUNGATERIA-workshop at the Waag Futurelab in Amsterdam on 5 June.
Torjus is back from his three month-research stay at DTU's Technology and Business Studies Division. At their research unit for Human-Centered Innovation he gained new perspectives on infrastructures and digital methods.
On 11 June, Fulvio presented an OSIRIS-paper at an online RISIS Research Seminar titled "R&D networks, peer effects and innovation performance".
On June 2- 3 Kristin gave a lecture and workshop at the Laboratoire Interdisciplinaire Sciences Innovations Sociétés of the Université Gustave Eiffel, Paris.
26 - 28 May, Lara and the rest of the Faculty's administrative PhD network visited one of our Circle U. partner universities, the University of Belgrade, which is at the center of the ongoing student protests (see also this open conversation).
Tone D., Silje M. and Kristin have a new article published in History and Philosophy of the Life Sciences: "Choreographies of co-modification: instrumentizing cod for immunology and the economy"
TIK board
At the TIK board meeting 6 June the board was informed about the expected financial result at the end of the year - if nothing major unexpectedly occurs, the result will be approximately as expected when the board decided this year's budget last December. The successful project acquisition plays an important role in securing TIK's economy.
The board decided on the announcement of a PhD/postdoctoral fellowship in the project "Convergence and Culture in the life sciences". The announcement will be shared as soon as it is published.
The policy for applications for external research funding for postdoctoral fellows that was decided upon by the board in the last meeting is published: Policy for applications for external research funding for postdoctoral fellows.
Vacancies
The deadline for the ORGIMP PhD position is approaching fast. Please share the posting with relevant persons in your network!
Upcoming events
- 16 June, 13:15 - 15:00
PhD final seminar of Benjamin Donald Smith - 19 June, 14:15 - 16:00
PhD midway seminar of Tokhir Pallaev - 25 June, 12:15 - 14:00
PhD final seminar of Tanja Knaus - 12 August, 13:15 - 15:00
PhD midway seminar of Rakesh Paul - 26 August, 11:00 - 13:00
TIK staff meeting - 27 August, 14:15 - 15:30
Alexandra Hui (Mississippi State University) : "The Senescent Scientist: world-making and scientific skills over a finite life" - 25 September, 09:30 - 11:15
PhD midway seminar of Torjus Solheim Eckhoff