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‘Healthism’ and public health in the Norwegian welfare state : A discursive theory of science approach to the translation of public health science and policy into practice
(Doctoral thesis, 2021-02-19)This dissertation employs discourse analytic reading strategies in order to examine lifestyle intervention as knowledge practices realizing public health science and policy in the Norwegian welfare state. It addresses a ... -
How often are outcomes other than change in substance use measured? A systematic review of outcome measures in contemporary randomised controlled trials
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)Issues Recovery is a theoretical construct and empirical object of inquiry. The aim was to review whether outcome measures used in randomised controlled trials of drug treatment reflect a comprehensive conceptualisation ... -
Indicator development as a site of collective imagination? The case of European Commission policies on the circular economy
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)In recent years the concept of the circular economy gained prominence in EU policy-making. The circular economy promotes a future in which linear ‘make-use-dispose’ cultures are replaced by more circular models. In this ... -
Insect decline, an emerging global environmental risk
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The Earth’s entomofauna seems in an ongoing state of collapse. Insect decline could pose a global risk to key insect-mediated ecosystem functions and services such as soil and freshwater functions (nutrient cycling, soil ... -
Insect feeds in salmon aquaculture: sociotechnical imagination and responsible story-telling
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Salmon aquaculture is a growing industry with increasing challenges of feed sustainability and availability. This global sustainability issue has led to calls for novel feeds. Aquafly, a Norwegian research project, has ... -
Intellectual Practicians: An Exploration of Professionalism among Upper Secondary School Teachers with Icelandic Mother Tongue Teachers as a Contextualized Empirical Case
(Doctoral thesis, 2015-05-21)The study Intellectual practicians explores an educational practice; more particularly that of mother tongue teachers in upper secondary school in Iceland as experienced and described by some of these teachers. The study’s ... -
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, ... -
Investigating the process of ethical approval in citizen science research: The case of Public Health
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Undertaking citizen science research in Public Health involving human subjects poses significant challenges concerning the traditional process of ethical approval. It requires an extension of the ethics of protection of ... -
Irrigated areas drive irrigation water withdrawals
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)A sustainable management of global freshwater resources requires reliable estimates of the water demanded by irrigated agriculture. This has been attempted by the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) through country ... -
Is VARS more intuitive and efficient than Sobol’ indices?
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The Variogram Analysis of Response Surfaces (VARS) has been proposed by Razavi and Gupta as a new comprehensive framework in sensitivity analysis. According to these authors, VARS provides a more intuitive notion of ... -
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 ... -
Make Way for the Robots! Human‑ and Machine‑Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019-09-13)This article is an analytic register of recent European efforts in the making of ‘autonomous’ robots to address what is imagined as Europe’s societal challenges. The paper describes how an emerging techno-epistemic network ... -
Making common sense of vaccines: an example of discussing the recombinant attenuated salmonella vaccine with the public
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2014-07-10)Researchers have iterated that the future of synthetic biology and biotechnology lies in novel consumer applications of crossing biology with engineering. However, if the new biology’s future is to be sustainable, early ... -
Making Sense of Rare Earth Elements. An interdisciplinary approach to mineral resources’ ethics and governance
(Doctoral thesis, 2013-05-24)This interdisciplinary PhD dissertation aims to identify and address the ethical challenges posed by rare earth elements, as a non-renewable, ill-distributed, and valuable resource. The overall theoretical framework in ... -
Mapping ethical and social aspects of cancer biomarkers
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2016-12)Cancer biomarkers represent a revolutionary advance toward personalised cancer treatment, promising therapies that are tailored to subgroups of patients sharing similar generic traits. Notwithstanding the optimism driving ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
Multi-scale integrated evaluation of the sustainability of large-scale use of alternative feeds in salmon aquaculture
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2020)The steady increase in production volume of salmon aquaculture has sharpened concerns about its sustainability. In particular the production of salmon feed is a reason for concern given its reliance on scarce natural ... -
‘My new routine’: Assessing the impact of citizen science on climate adaptation in Bangladesh
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)Citizen science is put forward as a method for extending science to include communities in learning about, and adapting to, climate variability and change in the places they live. But it is difficult to find evidence of ... -
Narrative review of citizen science in environmental epidemiology: Setting the stage for co-created research projects in environmental epidemiology
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Several citizen science (CS) initiatives have been adopted in environmental science to monitor air and noise pollution, and water quality related to civic concerns. Nevertheless, CS projects in environmental epidemiology ...