Academic interests
My research integrates scholarship on global environmental governance and cognitive theory to study actor motivations, beliefs and agency, institutional and policy design and effectiveness related to climate change. I am interested in challenges at the science-policy-society interface, including the use of scientific knowledge in environmental decision-making, and the role of ideologies in advancing or preventing effective societal responses to climate change. My current research focusses on the role of future thinking (imagination) in sustainability transformations and the study of social tipping points. I am coordinating governance-related work for the Global Tipping Points Report 2023.
Courses taught
- SGO2302 Environment and Society, Spring 2021, 2022, 2023; https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/iss/SGO2302/v21/index.html
- SGO2500 North-South Development: Energy Transitions and Sustainability, Fall 2021, 2022; https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/iss/SGO2500/
- SOS2920 Introduction to Digital Research Methods, Spring 2022, 2023; https://www.uio.no/studier/emner/sv/iss/SOS2920/
Background
Dr. Milkoreit received her Ph.D. in Global Governance from the University of Waterloo (Canada) and a Master of Public Policy from the Harvard Kennedy School. Prior to joining the University of Oslo, she was a faculty member in the Department of Political Science at Purdue University, and a Postdoctoral Researcher at Arizona State University’s Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability. At ASU she lead the Imagination and Climate Futures Initiative, an interdisciplinary effort to engage scholars, writers and the public in a conversation about the role of imagination in societal responses to climate change.
Appointments
- Discovery Park Visiting Scholar, Center for the Environment, Purdue University
Positions held
- Assistant Professor, Department of Political Science, Purdue University (2016-2020)
- Postdoctoral Researcher, Wrigley Global Institute of Sustainability, Arizona State University (2013-2016)