Lars Wenaas is the first Osiris PhD candidate to submit his doctoral thesis. The thesis looks at the effects of open access. The public defense will take place at the University of Oslo on 11 November 2022.
Frauke Rohden, PhD candidate at TIK and part of the OSIRIS team, is in the final stages of her PhD work. In her thesis she looks at the role of informal science-oriented online activities for the diffusion, understanding, and use of scientific knowledge. We decided to ask Frauke some questions about her project.
Learn how to increase innovation in your lab and bridge the gap between scientist and health innovator. Sign up for course in Trondheim 23–24 November. First come, first served.
Lecturer in Law Dr Carrie Bradshaw has been appointed as a Visiting Fellow at the University of Oslo’s TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture.
Senterleder Taran Thune deltok i debatten arrangert av Innovasjon Norge under Arendalsuka, sammen med næringsminister Jan Christian Vestre, Kristin Skogen Lund (konsernsjef, Schibsted), Kristian Jul Røsjø (CEO, Antler Norway), Per-Ivar Nikolaisen (redaktør, Shifter), og Håkon Haugli (administrerende direktør, Innovasjon Norge). Moderator var Eva Camerer (direktør av strategisk stab, Innovasjon Norge).
Authors of accepted papers will be invited for workshop in Paris. Read more here for details about the call and how to send in your submission!
On May 6th, Kristin Asdal spoke at the marking of the 50 year anniversary of the Norwegian Ministry of Climate and Environment.
Read more here about what we did at the EGOS and EASST conferences in July 2022!
We have two recent additions to the INTRANSIT team. Amir Mirzadeh Phirouzabadi and Sabine de Graaff.
How does science make its way from academic research into society? There is agreement that the connection between science and society is not a linear or simple process. This blog post presents six perspectives on the complexity, long timespans and many different actors involved in scientific impact processes.
From June 1-3 2022, the Osiris team attended the yearly Eu-SPRI conference. This year’s theme was “Challenging Science and Innovation Policy” and the aim was to explore future directions for studies of Policies for Research and Innovation with a special emphasis on the topics of Digitization, Open Science and Futuring.
The conference season is upon us and INTRANSIT researchers are presenting work at several events this summer. Here is an overview of INTRANSIT's conference contributions.
As members of the STS community in Norway, we are thrilled to share that Sheila Jasanoff has been awarded the prestigious Holberg Prize for 2022 “for her pioneering research in the field of Science and Technology Studies” write TIK researchers Hilde Reinertsen, Tone Druglitrø and Ana Delgado.
A challenge in transitions is how to efficiently link research with policymakers' current issues, problems, and questions. With that in mind, INTRANSIT, the Norwegian Research Council, and the Ministry of Education and Research hosted a seminar for informal discussions between researchers and bureaucrats from different ministries.
After more than two years of zoom meetings, the Osiris consortium finally met physically again for a two-day meeting in Valencia, Spain. The meeting was hosted by Osiris partner INGENIO and took place at their offices at Ciudad Politécnica de la Innovación.
A central aim of the Lifebrain consortium is to optimize the use of European brain imaging cohorts, by enabling their combined use in research, and to reveal consistency as well as heterogeneity of factors related to brain and cognition.
The Lifebrain findings provide support for some established associations, but also challenge some tenets of lifespan cognitive neuroscience.
UiO:Life Science established in 2021 a support scheme for interdisciplinary life science courses. Departments and faculties at the University of Oslo are eligible to apply. The scheme has an no deadline, applications can be submitted at any time.
The theory, known as the ‘great replacement,’ has gained currency on popular television programs and in the halls of Congress.
Researcher Daniel Quintana receives UiO Young Researcher Award for his research on the hormone oxytocin and its importance for physical and mental health.
The Nordic Branding project has now finalized its results in a report to the UiO:Nordic.
New research shows that oxytocin system dysfunction contributes to both mental disorders and cardiovascular and metabolic health. A researcher says that oxytocin has the potential to treat mental disorders and the associated risk of cardiovascular disease and metabolic disorders.
Through the collective effort of this Special Feature of Sustainability Science, the editors and the authors offer key insights on how we can overcome the inertia and work deliberately with transformative change.
Professor Eivind Ystrøm at the Department of Psychology has been awarded a prestigious Consolidator Grant from the European Research Council to investigate why one fifth of Norwegian children do not complete secondary education, and need one fifth need treatment for a mental disorder before they reach adulthood.
Centre director, Taran Thune, has contributed to a new report on how missions can be used for tackling grand societal challenges in Norway.