TIK NEWS WEEK 26

Kari-Elisabeth submitted her thesis titled “Using research: Perspectives from inside policy organisations”, making it the sixth thesis handed in this spring!

Two new TIK-babies have arrived. Congratulations to Knut J?rgen and Nicholas!

Conferences

11-13 June most of the STS group at TIK was in Stockholm at the 7th Nordic STS Conference 2025 . Several of TIK's researcher organized panels:

  • Stine and B?rd; Agency in owning: The politics of investment, in and out of markets
  • Tone; Fleshy and Digital Doppelgangers in and out of the Life Sciences
  • Susanne; The production and use of official statistics

This week, 23-26 June, several of the Innovation group researchers are in Lisbon on the IST Conference Tensions and trade-offs in structural changes for sustainability transitions.

Several TIK researchers are track organizers:

  • Kejia; New Conceptual Understandings of Transitions
  • Diana; Societal Aspects of Sustainability Transitions: Social Acceptance, Justice and Global South Perspectives
  • Allan; Multi-system Dynamics in Sustainability Transitions

Research, cooperation and dissemination  

Next week, Kristin is invited lecturer with Jeannette Pols at two workshops at the University of Amsterdam on "What’s next in Valuing" and on the book on practice-oriented document analysis. She will also be in Paris in capacity of jury member on a thesis at CSI and have a Value threads projects meeting.

She just recently wrote an opinion piece (in Norwegian) in the paper Forskerforum on science-democracy relations with the current US context as the backdrop. See here: Vitenskap og demokrati: Fem tiltak for at samfunnet skal st? skulder ved skulder for vitenskapen om fem ?r

 

Markus has been awarded NOK 12 million from the Research Council to examine the role of public administration in the ongoing energy transition: TIK Centre receives funding for research into Norway’s energy transition - TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture
 

As announced in the last newsletter, TIK is part of SURE-AI and TRUST, two of the six new AI centres. Read more about the grant here: The faculty of social sciences participates in three AI centres - Faculty of Social Sciences

Helge has been granted financing for the last part of the project SAFE.

Susanne will give the keynote “Data critters: a partial inventory” at the PhD summer school “Ecological Data. Data Ecologies”, Goethe University Frankfurt, 30 June - 4 July 2025.

She also has a new publication: Bauer, Susanne; Güttler, Nils & Schlünder, Martina (2025). “'Birds Have Procedures Too': Avian Mobility, Airport Infrastructure, and Mixed Knowledges.” Osiris 40: 260–280. doi: https://doi.org/10.1086/735526

Knut J?rgen has been in the NRK podcast Verdib?rsen and talked about Tolstoy, non-violence and the war in Ukraine: https://radio.nrk.no/podkast/verdiboersen/l_d02cca3e-616b-4694-acca-3e616b1694f4, as well about Ayn Rand and why she would have disliked Donald Trump and Elon Musk: https://radio.nrk.no/podkast/verdiboersen/l_e31fc7b4-b7f9-453f-9fc7-b4b7f9d53f4f

He has also written two op-eds about school and education:  

TIK-administration holiday plan

If you have administrative questions, there will be someone available throughout all summer. 

  • Inger-Johanne: available weeks 26, 31 - 33 (on phone if urgent matters the whole summer)
  • Ingrid: available weeks 26 - 27, 32 - 33
  • Petter: available weeks 26 - 29
  • Lara: available weeks 28 onward

Master programs

Congratulations to our graduates!

All candidates that submitted their theses within the initial deadline have now defended them and are on track to be awarded diplomas in a few weeks. Congratulations to all of them, and thank you all for contributing to both supervision and thesis grading.

Looking ahead: Welcoming a new cohort

The new class is about to be admitted as we have now considered all 499 applications for admission to the next academic year. Admission offers will be sent in two weeks and you can meet the new group of students on Monday, August 18 in the lounge/lunch area.

Hearing on centre policy for the Faculty of Social Sciences

At the request of the Faculty Board, a working group is investigating what kind of center policy the Faculty of Social Sciences should have. The group's report  En senterpolitikk for Det samfunnsvitenskapelige fakultet is now sent to all departments and centres.

The TIK leadership group will discuss an answer from TIK before the hearing deadline 25 August. 

Until the deadline all employees are welcome to express their opinion about the report, by email to the dean Anne Julie Semb or the faculty director Gudleik Grimstad.

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