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The normativity in psychiatric nosology. An analysis of how the DSM-5’s psychopathology conceptualisation can be integrated
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)The Diagnostic and Statistical Manual of Mental Disorders, Fifth Edition (DSM-5) uses the conceptualization of psychopathology to make psychiatric diagnoses operational. The use of explicit operational criteria appears to ... -
Expert accountability: what does it mean, why is it challenging - and is it what we need?
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Knowledge and Its Legitimacy, an Exploratory (Meta)Ethical Framework-Based Analysis of Narratives on Coastal Flooding Risks in a Changing Climate
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Knowledge quality assessment (KQA) has been developed in order to analyze the role of knowledge in situations of high stakes and urgency when characterized by deep uncertainty and ignorance. Governing coastal flood risk ... -
10 years and going strong? Coastal flood risk management in the wake of a major coastal event (the 2010 Xynthia storm, Charente Maritime, France)
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)2020 marked the 10th anniversary of the Xynthia storm that hit Western Europe at the end of February 2010. In France it triggered an unprecedented coastal flooding event, with most human and material damage concentrated ... -
Editorial: High-Quality Knowledge for Climate Adaptation: Revisiting Criteria of Credibility, Legitimacy, Salience, and Usability
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Editorial on the Research Topic High-Quality Knowledge for Climate Adaptation: Revisiting Criteria of Credibility, Legitimacy, Salience, and Usability Climate adaptation in human systems is a process of learning and ... -
Medisinsk revolusjon, kunstig intelligens og milliardindustri Dominerende sosiotekniske forestillinger i medieringen av kreftfeltet
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Begrepet sosiotekniske forestillinger forstås som kollektive visjoner om en samfunnsmessig, vitenskapelig og teknologisk god fremtid. I denne artikkelen bruker vi begrepet for å analysere visjoner innenfor vitenskap og ... -
Introduction. Post-truth – another fork in modernity’s path
(Chapter, 2021)This text provides an introduction to the volume as a whole, focusing on topics that were much discussed during its preparation and writing. It gives a critical overview of some main events, public and academic discussions, ... -
Governing the Median Estate: hyper-truth and post-truth in the regulation of digital innovations
(Chapter, 2021)This chapter focusses on governance of digital innovation, making two claims: first, that post - truth is not a mere surface phenomenon, but rather grounded in the general production of knowledge and ignorance. Second, it ... -
The effects of serious gaming on risk perceptions of climate tipping points
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)A growing body of research indicates that effective science-policy interactions demand novel approaches, especially in policy domains with long time horizons like climate change. Serious games offer promising opportunities ... -
Rationing of Personalised Cancer Drugs: Rethinking the Co-production of Evidence and Priority Setting Practices
(Chapter, 2022)Rising health care costs is a challenge for all health care systems, and new and expensive cancer drugs is an important contributor to this. Many countries – like Norway – have therefore established priority setting ... -
Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics and Society
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The Nexus Times
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Precise Yet Uncertain: Broadening Understandings of Uncertainty and Policy in the BPA Controversy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)Bisphenol A (BPA) is one of the most studied and most controversial chemicals used by the food packaging industry, because of its endocrine disruptive properties. Part of the controversy is due to the uncertainty that ... -
“What Was That Word? It’s Part of Ensuring Its Future Existence” Exploring Engagement Collectives at the European Commission’s Joint Research Centre
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)This paper provides an empirical analysis of an initiative to establish a Community of Practice on citizen engagement at the European Commission’s (EC) Joint Research Centre (JRC). This initiative is one of the more recent ... -
Food, energy or biomaterials? Policy coherence across agro-food and bioeconomy policy domains in the EU
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The European Union (EU) envisions a shift towards a bioeconomy to address challenges such as reducing dependence on non-renewable resources, managing natural resources sustainably and food security. As a result, biomass ... -
Questionable Research Practices and Misconduct Among Norwegian Researchers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2022)This article presents results from the national survey conducted in 2018 for the project Research Integrity in Norway (RINO). A total of 31,206 questionnaires were sent out to Norwegian researchers by e-mail, and 7291 ... -
Models and numbers: Representing the world or imposing order?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)We argue for a foundational epistemic claim and a hypothesis about the production and uses of mathematical epidemiological models, exploring the consequences for our political and socio-economic lives. First, in order to ... -
Communication as Transmission and as Ritual: Dewey’s Account of Communication and Carey’s Cultural Approach
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Communication theorist James W. Carey distinguishes between two different views of communication in the later work of John Dewey. A transmission view takes communication as transmission of messages for the control of ... -
Descriptive representation of women in international courts
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Ethical refections on the COVID‑19 pandemic in the global seafood industry: navigating diverse scales and contexts of marine values and identities
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The global crisis instantiated by the COVID-19 pandemic opens a unique governance window to transform the sustainability, resilience, and ethics of the global seafood industry. Simultaneously crippling public health, civil ...
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