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As the project reaches its final stages, the team met up for a two-day workshop to discuss works underway and the road ahead.

OSIRIS is happy to welcome a new member of the research team: Ph.D. candidate Kristin Oxley!

How to do document analysis? In a new textbook, Kristin Asdal and Hilde Reinertsen aim to help you with precisely this.

The current public support schemes for research and development should be directed more towards R&D-starters in the business enterprise sector and be based more on general criteria rather than discretion.

How can science have an impact on policy-making? In OSIRIS, we analyse the processes and conditions of research users to understand impact. Papers about the impact of science on policy-making often describe interactions between scientists and individual policymakers. While these are certainly important, the new OSIRIS discussion paper draws attention to the role of conditions in policy organisations.

The joint EASST/4S conference took place on 18-21 August - this year virtually.

OSIRIS researchers at Statistics Norway have published an article  analyzing the impact of all major sources of direct and indirect R&D subsidies to industries in Norway during the period 2002-2013.

More R&D spending in Norway leads to higher productivity as firms improve their capacity to learn from other domestic firms as well as from firms in other countries. As a result, GDP, real wages and consumption will increase in the long run.

Spring 2020 has been different in OSIRIS, as everywhere else. But through digital spaces the team has in many respects been closer than ever before, and we had a successful consortium workshop 8-9 June. 

TIKs forskningsprosjekt LITTLE TOOLS søker 1-2 vitenskapelige assistenter som kan jobbe 50-100% i perioden juni – desember 2020.

Kristin Asdal and Bård Hobæk write about parliamentary politics in new issue of Social Studies of Science. 

OSIRIS is fundamentally about understanding the process through which research makes some kind of difference in society. These strange and dramatic times highlight why we need such knowledge. In our most recent blog post, we reflect upon how our work touches on the current coronavirus situation.

The blog post can be found here.

OSIRIS is fundamentally about understanding the process through which research makes some kind of difference in society. These strange and dramatic times highlight why we need such knowledge.

A PhD course on the bioeconomy was held in Oslo 9-13 December as part of the ERC Little Tools project.

Most likely yes, but removing barriers is not the same as opening the floodgates, says OSIRIS ph.d candidate Lars Wenaas.

The Little Tools team met for two days of lively discussions on the project and works in progress.

On November 8th, professor Barry Bozeman (Arizona State University) visited the OSIRIS consortium meeting and gave a keynote speech titled Public values criteria in science policy and evaluation: Challenges of moving from theory to application.

On November 7th, Mireille Matt visited OSIRIS and gave a talk on  real-time impact assessment.

On November 7-8, OSIRIS gathered for an intensive consortium workshop. Seven drafts for scientific papers were presented and reviewed, as well as several new ideas for upcoming papers and case studies.

Little Tools postdoc Hilde Reinertsen participates in panel on our relationship to nature.

The lecture, on "an ethnography of documents", was part of a PhD course on ethnography in STS.

On September 11, Hilde Reinertsen participated in panel on the value of the ocean at the National Theater in Oslo.

The workshop was held at Tøyen in Oslo 14-15 October, with open lectures from invited speakers Eve Chiapello and Andrew Barry.

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

Kristin Asdal held a presentation on document analysis at a workshop on methods held in Trondheim, 17 September.