News

From 30 September, ARENA will be located in new premises at Gaustadalléen 30. 

The 2019 conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science took place from September 3 to 7 in New Orleans. TIK was there!

Kristin Asdal and Béatrice Cointe presented a paper at the 2019 EGOS Colloquium in Edinburgh.

As parents, we are often interested in following the development of our children and finding out how much they have learnt at different points in the early years of life. Understanding what children know and how they learn is also important for researchers interested in understanding their development.

The new working paper is co-written by all members of the Little Tools Research team, and titled "The Good Economy: Re-casting the bioeconomy, its normativities and its trouble."

The new working paper is titled "Experiments in co-modification: A relational take on the becoming of commodities and the making of market value". 

Kristin Asdal represented the Little Tools team at the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) conference in Tallinn.

INTRANSIT invites candidates to apply for two PhD Fellowships at the University of Oslo.

Hilde Reinertsen and Kristin Asdal address how the blue economy is calculated in a new article in Journal of Cultural Economy.

On June 20-21, the Little Tools team gathered once again at Tøyen Hovedgård in Oslo to discuss works-in-progress and the road ahead.

SINTEF Digital is now searching for a Research Scientist who will work with INTRANSIT and FME NTRANS.

On August 15th, INTRANSIT visits Arendalsuka to discuss the possible green future of Norwegian industry.

INTRANSIT begun its work with a two-day kick-off meeting at the University of Oslo on 6-7 May 2019, including a workshop with invited stakeholders.

UiO:Nordic is an interdisciplinary initiative at UiO aimed at promoting new and relevant knowledge on the Nordic region and Nordic perspectives in an international context, partly through a critical focus on concepts and notions of ‘the Nordic model’.

On May 6-7, the 18th Annual STS Conference took place in Graz, Austria, with a focus on "Critical issues in Science, Technology and Society Studies". Professor Kristin Asdal and postdoc Béatrice Cointe represented the Little Tools Team.

Diabetes, organ donation, consciousness, the immune system, evidence in rape cases, mental illnesses, medicinal plants and cancer. These are societal challenges that will be examined in interdisciplinary life science research groups at the University of Oslo.

TIK celebrated its 20th anniversary with a conference last week. Researchers from the Little Tools project were well-represented among the speakers.

Department of Political Science congratulates Kacper Szulecki with the Environmental Politics Article of the Year Award 2018

The article "Bureaucratic power in note-writing: authoritative expertise within the state" was awarded a prize from Sosiologen.

Kristin Asdal was invited as a visiting professor at the Department of Sociology and Work Science of the University of Gothenburg for two months this spring.

The Little Tools team met for two days of intense discussion on writings in-progress.