News from TIK

INTRANSIT is happy to announce a four-year postdoctoral positon to work on research on sustainability transitions and industrial transformations. The position is co-funded by INTRANSIT and FME NTRANS.

TIK participated in organizing a stand at the Oslo Science Expo, 20-21 September.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

In late 2018, researchers from TIK's oil & gas related projects GLOBOIL and SIVAC participated in the Norway Brazil Weeks.

Hilde Reinertsen and Kristin Asdal have published a paper in a special issue of Arr - the Norwegian history of ideas journal focused on the ocean.

The Little Tools project invites submissions for a panel they are organising at the next 4S Conference in August.

Submissions welcome for Kristin Asdal and Maximilian Fochler's panel on the entanglement of valuation and knowledge practices!

UiO:Energy wishes you all a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. We congratulate all our researchers who have received grants that can provide new knowledge on sustainable energy systems and societies. 

Kristin Asdal and Marte Mangset have written a blog post for the website Sociology Lens. They present their work on the inner working of the State.

The GlobOil team is happy to welcome two new PhD candidates to the team: Eili Skrivervik and Tèrcio Pinho Filho.