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

The ProjectSTEP group (also referred to as "Critical Friends" in the project's English description) is included in the project's RRI design and has now had its first meeting.

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.

TIK*s PhD candidate Henrik Schwabe has won the prize for best PhD paper at the annual meeting of the Norwegian Association for Economists.

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

Did you know that around one third of global food produced for human consumptions is wasted?

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.

INTRANSIT researcher Tuukka Mäkitie defended his PhD thesis in innovation studies at UiO on 23 October 2019, amongst other things focussing on policy mixes to advance sustainability transitions in the norwegian oil and gas industry.

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.

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 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.

OSIRIS researchers from Oslo and Manchester participated with a total of three papers in this year's ECPR conference in Wrocław.

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".