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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 ... -
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 ... -
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 ... -
The Nexus Times
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The notion of ‘responsible development’ in new approaches to governance of nanosciences and nanotechnologies
(Doctoral thesis, 2010-10-08)This PhD dissertation looks at the development of nanosciences and nanotechnologies (nanoST), a field that has gained tremendous political and economic momentum in the first decade of the 21st century. It is also a field ... -
On Cultures and Artscience. Interdisciplinarity and Discourses of “Twos” and “Threes” after Snow’s Two Cultures
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2015)At least since C.P. Snow’s seminal Rede lecture The Two Cultures, the idea of a significant difference in kind between the natural sciences and the arts and humanities has been prevalent in Western culture. A gap has been ... -
Peirce’s classification of the sciences
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2019)This article considers Charles Peirce’s classification of the sciences from shortly after the turn of the 20th Century. The classification has two main sources of inspiration: Comte’s science classification and Kant’s ... -
Pollinator conservation requires a stronger and broader application of the precautionary principle
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)The accumulating scientific evidence on global insect and pollinator decline is fuelling calls for pollinator conservation policies. A broad range of regulating and incentivising policies is undoubtedly needed to address ... -
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 ... -
Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands
(Journal article; Peer reviewed, 2021)Climate services, and research on climate services, have mutually developed over the past 20 years, with quality assessment a central issue for orienting both practitioners and researchers. However, quality assessment is ...