News from TIK - Page 8

The OSIRIS team in Manchester has recently appointed Maria Karaulova as postdoctoral researcher.

The OSIRIS team's presentations on the impact of research are now available online.

On March 27th, OSIRIS, in cooperation with NOS-HS, hosted a Nordic workshop on impact in the social sciences and humanities.

The Little Tools project organized a workshop on the sea and its economies on March 9^th – 10^th in Kabelvåg, Lofoten

The Norwegian Research Council has a limited understanding of the role of research in society, writes Kristin Asdal in the Norwegian business newspaper Dagens Næringsliv.

Kristin Asdal speaking at the Department of Culture Studies and Oriental Languages, University of Oslo, 15:00 on February 15th

The edited volume 'Humans, Animals and Biopolitics: The More-than-Human Condition' has been reviewed favourably in the journal cultural geographies.

Within the LittleTools project, you may find interesting, fun and relevant ideas for master theses about science, politics, the economy, and the environment - with a special focus on oceans, fish, and aquaculture.

The Little Tools team convened on Lysebu to discuss current projects and plan for the future.

If you were unable to join the launch seminar at UiO in October - never fear, the entire thing is now available for viewing.

The Little Tools project is now recruiting a new postdoc with background from STS, valuation studies, economic history or economic sociology.

Kristin Asdal has published an essay in Klassekampen on politics as work.

Kristin Asdal on the concept of valuation in the newly published anthology New Big Science in Focus.

In a new journal article, Kristin Asdal and Bård Hobæk suggest a new way to analyze parliaments: As sites in which the little tools of paperwork and parliamentary procedures enable political issues to be assembled and even be transformed.

TIK's ERC Starting Grant project Little Tools welcomes three new research assistants onboard.

The TIK centre will be involved in TEMPEST, a new inter-diciplinary project coordinated by the Institute of Transport Economics (TØI).

Two new positions have been announced in the Little Tools project:

- One PhD Research Fellow - see announcement here

- One Postdoctoral Fellow - see announcement here

Application deadline for both positions is 30 November 2015

Kristin Asdal has published a new article: "Enacting values from the sea. On innovation devices, value practices and the co-modifications of markets and bodies in aquaculture". This is the first publication from from the framework of the Little Tools project, and can be found in the new volume Value Practices in the Life Sciences and Medicine on Oxford University Press, edited by Isabelle Dussauge, Claes-Fredrik Helgesson and Francis Lee. A preview of the first pages can be read here

Professor Kristin Asdal at TIK has received funding for a five year research project on the new bioeconomy

This news article was originally published in Norwegian in February 2015, written by Amalie Kvame Holm.

Former drone pilot Brandon Bryant and director Tonje Hessen Schei visited the TIK center on the 23. of October for an exclusive showing of the documentary film Drone.

Innovation has become a very popular term lately. In his new TIK Talk, Professor Magnus Gulbrandsen has three messages for aspiring innovators.

At one of the last energy seminars offered this spring, Ronan Bolton spoke about how the United Kingdom is currently reconfiguring the market to promote low carbon investment.  

This summer TIK will organize a PhD course called Knowledge, Innovation & Networks in Today's Economy.

TIK has experienced great interest in its upcoming PhD course “The Politics and Practices of Methods”. The PhD course is now fully booked with a waiting list.

In the TIK-seminar held Thursday February 12th, professor Marko Hekkert told an interesting story of the development of the technological innovation system (TIS) approach as a new, and now widely adopted, way of analyzing the emergence of new technologies.