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I have a background in philosophy, law and science and technology studies (Vitenskapsteori). My main research interests are in governance and politics of technoscience, and in the overall evolution of the knowledge society and modernity into conditions that we would call non-modern. I have studied interrelations of politics, governance and technoscience in domains ranging from biomedicine (genomics), over security (biometrics, surveillance and privacy) to energy transition and climate policies. Over the last years, my research has increasingly dealt with efforts to bring ever-more aspects of material, social and biological reality into digital mediation and datafication (such as Internet of Things, smart electricity, ‘smart’ technologies and AI). 

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As a teacher I have led the development of the interdisciplinary master's program on sustainability and interdisciplinarity, which I also coordinate and teach. The program involves teachers from four faculties at the University of Bergen, namely: humanities, natural science, social sciences and law. Our approach to teaching is interdisciplinary, student-centric and problem-oriented. We combine such approaches with more traditional classrooms-based approaches, dealing with the history, institutions and ways of knowing involved in sustainability science and politics.

 

Select publications in English

Ballo, I.F., Rommetveit, K., 2023. Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context. Urban Geography 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2229709

Remme, D., Sareen, S., Haarstad, H., Rommetveit, K., 2023. Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism. poldev. https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.5406

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., 2022. Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary. Soc Stud Sci 52, 853–877. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127221119424

Bærøe, K., Gundersen, T., Henden, E., Rommetveit, K., 2022. Can medical algorithms be fair? Three ethical quandaries and one dilemma. BMJ Health Care Inform 29, e100445. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2021-100445

Rommetveit, K., 2021. Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience, 1st ed. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429053061

Rommetveit, K., 2021. Introduction: Post-truth – another fork in modernity's path, in: Post-Truth Imaginations. Routledge, London, pp. 1–30. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429053061-1

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., 2021. Governing the Median Estate, in: Post-Truth Imaginations. Routledge, London, pp. 199–220. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429053061-10

Rommetveit, K., Ballo, I.F., Sareen, S., 2021. Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition. Science, Technology, & Human Values 016224392110528. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211052867

Sareen, S., Saltelli, A., Rommetveit, K., 2020. Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation. Palgrave Commun 6, 20. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0396-5

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., Gunnarsdóttir, K., 2020. Make Way for the Robots! Human- and Machine-Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership. Minerva 58, 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-019-09386-1

Rommetveit, K., Dijk, N.V., Gunnarsdóttir, K., O’Riordan, K., Gutwirth, S., Strand, R., Wynne, B., 2019. Working responsibly across boundaries? Some practical and theoretical lessons, in: Von Schomberg, R., Hankins, J. (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00012

Silvast, A., Williams, R. A., Hyysalo, S., Rommetveit, K. and Raab, C. (2018) Who 'uses' smart grids? The evolving nature of user representations in layered infrastructures. Sustainability. Volume 10 (10), 1-21

Strand, R., Saltelli, A., Giampietro. M., Rommetveit, K. & Funtowicz, S. (2018) “New Narratives for Innovation”. The Journal of Cleaner Production, 197(2), 1849-1853.

Van Dijk, N., Tanas, A., Rommetveit, K., Raab., C. (online 10 Apr 2018) Right engineering - The redesign of privacy and personal data protection. International review of law computers & technology. Volume 32 (2-3), 230-256

Rommetveit, K. Tanas, A., van Dijk, N. (2018) Data Protection by Design: Promises and Perils in Crossing the Rubicon Between Law and Engineering. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Volume 526, 25-37

Rommetveit, K., Wynne, B. (2017) “Technoscience, imagined publics and public imaginations”. Public Understanding of Science, 26(2): 133–147.

Rommetveit, K., Wynne, B. (2017) “Editorial: Imagining public issues in the technosciences”. Special Issue Public Understanding of Science, 26(2), 128-132.

Gunnarsdottír, K. and Rommetveit, K. (2017) “Biometry and the securitization agenda. (Dis)trust in a policy vacuum”. Public Understanding of Science. 26(2): 26(2), 195–211.

Rommetveit, K. Guimares-Pereira, A., Pedrosa, T. (2016) ”Digital Globes: Layers of meaning and technology, redefining geographies and communities”. In: Delgado, A. (Ed. 2016) Technoscience, Citizenship, Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society. New York: Springer.

Rommetveit, K. (2016) “Introducing biometrics in the European Union: practice and imagination”. In: Delgado, A. (Ed. 2016) Technoscience, Citizenship, Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society. New York: Springer.

Van Dijk, N., Gellert, R., Rommetveit, K. (2016) “A Risk to a Right? Beyond Data Protection Risk Assessments”. Computer Law Security Review. 32(2), 286-307.

Rommetveit, K. (2015) "Biometrics". The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees. Online resource available here.

Rommetveit, K., Gunnarsdóttir, K., Jepsen, K. S., Bertilsson, M., Verrax, F. and Strand, R. (2013): “The Technolife Project: An experimental approach to new ethical frameworks for emerging science and technology”, The International Journal of Sustainable Development, 16(1-2), 23–45.

Rommetveit, K. (2013) ”Who’s Autonomous now?” Bioethica Forum, 6 (3), 107-109.

Rommetveit, K. Scully, J. L., Porz, R. (2013) “The Role of Moral Imagination in Patients’s Decision-Making”. J Med Philos. Apr; 38(2),160-72.

Rommetveit, K. ”Immortality”. In Øyen, Olsen & Vaage (Eds. 2012) Sacred Science? On Science and its interrelations with religious worldviews. Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Delgado, A., Rommetveit, K. (2012) “’Our strength is diversity’: imaginaries of nature and community in a Brazilian social movement". International Journal of Sustainable Development 15 (4), 353-373.

Delgado, A., Rommetveit, K., Lemkow, L, Barcelo, M. (2012): “Imagining high-tech bodies: Science fiction and the ethics of enhancement”, Science Communication, 34(2), 200-240.

Rommetveit, K. (2011). “ICTs and responsible innovation: imaginaries of information and community”. In von Schomberg (ed.), “Governance and Ethics of Emerging ICT and Security Technologies”. Publication series Governance and Ethics, DG Research, European Commission.

Rommetveit, K. (2011). “Tackling epistemological naivety: large-scale information systems and the complexities of the common good”, Cambridge Quartely of Healthcare Ethics, 20, 1–12.

Rommetveit, K., “Genetic enhancement, futures tense” (2011) Futures, 76–85.

Rommetveit, K., Funtowicz, S. and Strand, R. (2010): “Knowledge, Democracy and Action in Response to Climate Change” in Roy Bhaskar et. al, "Interdisciplinarity and Global Warming", London and New York: Routledge, 149-165.

Rommetveit, K. (2009): “Bioethics, biopower and the post-genomic challenge”. In: Gunning, J., Holm, S. Kenway, I., "Ethics, Law and Society" Vol VI book series, Ashgate Publishers, 165-186.

Rommetveit, K., Porz, R. (2009) "Tragedy and boundary situations in predictive genetic testing", Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 12(1), 9–16.

Rommetveit, K. (2008). "Towards a hermeneutic of technomedical objects", Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 29:2, 103-120.

Rommetveit, K. (2007): "Biotechnology: Action and choice in second modernity", PhD

Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen.

     Helland, T., Rommetveit, K. (2006. "Current dyslexia research seen in the light of I.

Lakatos philosophy of research programmes", in C. B. Haies (ed.), Dyslexia in Children:

New Research. New York: Nova Sciences Publishers Inc.

Select publications in Norwegian

Rommetveit, Kjetil (2021). Digital? Suverenitet? Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 38(01): 111-123

Rommetveit, K. (2015) ”Den Lange Marsjen ved et veiskille”. Vagant 2/2015.

Strand, R., & Rommetveit, K. (2013) “Hva har verden lært av klimavitenskapen?”. 2°C. 02.2013.

Rommetveit, K. (2012) “Anmeldelse av Regjerningens Nasjonale strategi for bioteknologi 2011-2020”. Salongen – Nettstedet for filosofi og idehitsorie. http://salongen.no/

Rommetveit, K. (2011). ”Biometri: forskningsetiske utfordringer” Online resource, Norwegian Committee for research-ethics in science and technology. http://www.etikkom.no/In-English/Committee-for-Research-Ethics-in-Scienc...

Strand, R. & Rommetveit, K. “Avstand og Avmakt”. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 1/2012.

Strand, R. & Rommetveit, K. (2011) “Trond, Tora og Askeladden – et forskningspolitisk eventyr”. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 3/2011.

Select reports

Rommetveit, K, Dunajcsik, M. Tanas, A. Silvast, A. and Gunnarsdóttir, K. (2017). The CANDID Primer: Including Social Sciences and Humanities scholarship in the making and use of smart ICT technologies (edited by K Gunnarsdóttir). CANDID (H2020-ICT-35- 2016) D5.4, available at http://candid.no/progress

Rommetveit, K. Gunnarsdóttir, K., van Dijk, N., Smits, M.  Making robotic autonomy through science and law? EPINET project report. April 2015. Available at goo.gl/7XXfEb

Van Dijk, N, Rommetveit, K. A Risk to a Right? Cross-Cutting Lessons for Data Protection Impact Assessments Summary of findings and policy recommendations. April 2015. Available at:  goo.gl/RxDaR9

Rommetveit, K., Strand, R., Fjelland, R., Funtowicz, S. (2013) “What can history teach us about the prospects of a European Research Area?”. European Commission, JRC scientific and policy reports. Available at http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/fileadmin/repository/eas/saia/docs/201310_Histera_final_ report.pdf

Overview of publications in Cristin:

  • Show author(s) (2023). Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context. Urban Geography.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Electric vehicle paradise? Exploring the value chains of green extractivism. 26 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2023). Derfor trenger vi en akademisk boikott av Israel. Klassekampen.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Scenarienes makt. Klassekampen.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Producing the ‘user’ in smart technologies: a framework for examining user representations in smart grids and smart metering infrastructure.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary. Social Studies of Science. 853-877.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Pandemifrokost #8.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Krigens medietåke. Klassekampen.
  • Show author(s) (2022). Hvorfor blir vi enige om noe som helst? Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
  • Show author(s) (2022). Forsker på myndighetenes smittesporing. På Høyden ( UiBs nettavis).
  • Show author(s) (2022). Ekspertintervjuet: Hvorfor gjør vi så lite når vi vet så mye?
  • Show author(s) (2022). Design-based responsible digital innovation?
  • Show author(s) (2022). Can medical algorithms be fair? Three ethical quandaries and one dilemma. BMJ Health & Care Informatics. 1-6.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Post-truth – another fork in modernity’s path. 30 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Governing the Median Estate: hyper-truth and post-truth in the regulation of digital innovations. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition. Science, Technology and Human Values. 1-28.
  • Show author(s) (2021). Data as evidence for action – the case of Covid – 19 digital contact tracing.
  • Show author(s) (2021). DIGITAL? SUVERENITET? – et politisk grunnspørsmål, ti år senere. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 111-123.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Make Way for the Robots! Human-and Machine-Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership. Minerva. 47-69.
  • Show author(s) (2020). Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation. Humanities & Social Sciences Communications.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Working responsibly across boundaries? Some practical and theoretical lessons. 83-100. In:
    • Show author(s) (2019). INTERNATIONAL HANDBOOK ON RESPONSIBLE INNOVATION A Global Resource. Edward Elgar Publishing.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Smart gridlock? Challenging hegemonic framings of mitigation solutions and scalability. Environmental Research Letters.
  • Show author(s) (2019). Make Way for the Robots! Human‑ and Machine‑ Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership. Minerva. 1-23.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Who 'uses' smart grids? The evolving nature of user representations in layered infrastructures. Sustainability. 1-21.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Right engineering - The redesign of privacy and personal data protection. International review of law computers & technology. 230-256.
  • Show author(s) (2018). Data Protection by Design: Promises and Perils in Crossing the Rubicon Between Law and Engineering . IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. 25-37.
  • Show author(s) (2017). The biometric imaginary: (Dis)trust in a policy vacuum. Public Understanding of Science. 195-211.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Tekno-politiske visjoner: løsning eller problem? ingeniørens stemme.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Technoscience, imagined publics and public imaginations. Public Understanding of Science. 133-147.
  • Show author(s) (2017). Editorial. Public Understanding of Science. 128-132.
  • Show author(s) (2017). CANDID PRIMER: Including Social Sciences and Humanities scholarship in the making and use of smart ICT technologies. .
  • Show author(s) (2016). New narratives for innovation. Journal of Cleaner Production. 1849-1853.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Introducing biometrics in the European Union: practice and imagination. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). Digital Globes: Layers of meaning and technology, redefining geographies and communities. 14 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2016). A risk to a right? beyond data protection risk assessments. Computer Law and Security Review. 286-306.
  • Show author(s) (2015). ”Genetikk og etikk i resten av Europa” eller: Hva som skjedde da genetikk møtte etikk.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Working Paper The future social robustness of smart electricity networks in Europe. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). The Median Estate: Breaking down boundaries & reconstituting rights.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Report from workshop: Making robotic autonomy through science and law? .
  • Show author(s) (2015). Policy recommendations: “Making autonomy in robotics and law”. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). Policy recommendations: Towards socially robust smart grids. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). Overvåkning og Offentlig Meningsdannelse.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Impact assessments: Quality issues in the policy making process.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Gadgets on the move and in stasis Consumer and medical electronics, what's the difference? .
  • Show author(s) (2015). EPINET conceptual analysis: Integrated assessments in technoepistemic networks. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). EPINET and Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) – observations and reflections. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). EPINET Final report. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). Den Lange Marsjen ved et veiskille. Vagant.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Case study of autonomous robotics. A summary of case study results and policy recommendations.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Case Study on In-Vitro Meat Policy Report, March/April 2015 Summary of findings and policy considerations. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). Assessments as governance: From Epistemic Networks to Techno-epistemic networks.
  • Show author(s) (2015). Application, Innovation and Two More Technomoral Scenarios. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). A report on the networking/embedding event, 'Making sense of wearables: New-emerging markets and mediascapes'. .
  • Show author(s) (2015). A Risk to a Right? Cross-Cutting Lessons for Data Protection Impact Assessments Summary of findings and policy recommendations. .
  • Show author(s) (2014). The future social robustness of smart electricity networks in Europe. .
  • Show author(s) (2013). What can history teach us about the prospects of a European Research Area? .
  • Show author(s) (2013). The role of moral imagination in patients decision-making. Journal of Medicine and Philosophy. 160-172.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The Technolife Project: An experimental approach to new ethical frameworks for emerging science and technology. International Journal of Sustainable Development. 23-44.
  • Show author(s) (2013). The TECHNOLIFE Project.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Personvernet ofres. Dagens næringsliv.
  • Show author(s) (2013). Hvem tjener på den genetiske nypaternalismen? Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Immortality : An essay on science, technology and religion. 16 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Imagining converging technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Imagining High-Tech Bodies: Science Fiction and the Ethics of Enhancement. Science communication. 200-240.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Gode helseregistre på avveier. Morgenbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Beyond ELSA.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Betraktninger over et tiår med bioteknologi og ELSA.
  • Show author(s) (2012). Avstand og Avmakt. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 106-110.
  • Show author(s) (2012). 'Our strength is diversity': imaginaries of nature and community in a Brazilian social movement. International Journal of Sustainable Development. 353-373.
  • Show author(s) (2011). trond, tora og askeladden – et forskningspolitisk eventyr. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 263-272.
  • Show author(s) (2011). technolife: imaginarios de la sociedad digital.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Technolife: Films, Social Media, and Imaginaries in Emerging Technologies.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Tackling epistemological naivety: large-scale information systems and the complexities of the common good. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 584-595.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Tackling Epistemological Naivety: Large-Scale Information Systems and the Complexities of the Common Good. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics. 584-595.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Imagining high-tech bodies: Science fiction and the ethics of enhancement (published online). Science communication.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Genetic enhancement, futures tense. Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies. 76-85.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Genetic enhancement, futures tense. Futures: The journal of policy, planning and futures studies. 76-85.
  • Show author(s) (2011). Biometri: forskningsetiske utfordringer.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The Technolife Project: Implications for policy.
  • Show author(s) (2010). The Technolife Project.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Technolife: Digital Globes.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Technolife Biometrics and Mobility.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Tackling epistemological naivety: understanding values, choices and the complexities of the greater good?
  • Show author(s) (2010). Overview of the policy process introducing biometrics in the EU.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Knowledge, democracy and action in response to climate change. 15 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Irresponsible, Reckless and Deeply Immoral”—Knowledge, Democracy and Action in Response to Climate Change”. In. Bhaskar, R. et. al Interdisciplinarity and Climate Change Transforming Knowledge and Practice for Our Global Future. Routledge.
  • Show author(s) (2010). Imagining Enhanced Bodies: How Can Science Fiction Contribute to Ethics for the Governance of Emerging Technologies?
  • Show author(s) (2010). "Biometrics: Technology of (Dis)trust".
  • Show author(s) (2009). Tragedy and Grenzsituationen in genetic prediction. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. 9-16.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Lifeworld and imaginaries in foresight and ethics: a new transdisciplinary “frontier” for ecological economics? A GIS Case study.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Klimaforhandlinger og demokrati.
  • Show author(s) (2009). I pandemiens tidsalder. Bergens Tidende.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Chair, session "Legitimacy, Ethics, and Trust", EIGHTH ANNUAL MEETING OF THE SCIENCE AND DEMOCRACY NETWORK, Harvard University, 01.07.2009.
  • Show author(s) (2009). Bioethics, biopower and the post-genomic challenge. 22 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Viljen er ikke stor nok. Aftenposten (morgenutg. : trykt utg.).
  • Show author(s) (2008). Tragedy and boundary situations in predictive genetic testing. Medicine, Health care and Philosophy. 9-16.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Towards a hermeneutic of techno-medical objects. Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics. 103-120.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Moral imagination and decision making.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Fremtidige utfordringer forbundet med genetisk testing av friske personer.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Dysleksi, et flerfaglig forskningsfelt. Aktuell dysleksiforskning sett i lys av Imre Lakatos' filosofi om forskningsprogram. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2008). Bioteknologi og bioetikk.
  • Show author(s) (2008). "Teknologi, naturvitenskap og samfunn" for faget Teknologi og Forskningslære (ToF X/ToF 1).
  • Show author(s) (2007). Norway: unwritten rules and hidden hierarchies.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Nanoparticles, IPRs and Strict Liability.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Institutions for Sustainable Governance of Nanotechnology: Ethics and Liability.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Hermeneutics reloaded: Closing up gaps of theory and practice in bioethics.
  • Show author(s) (2007). Genomisk medisin: frie valg og informerte beslutninger?
  • Show author(s) (2007). Biotechnology: Action and choice in second modernity.
  • Show author(s) (2006). “ELSA research: the context of Norway”.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The virtuous patient.
  • Show author(s) (2006). The contextualisation of epistemic things.
  • Show author(s) (2006). ELSA research: the context of Norway.
  • Show author(s) (2006). Current dyslexia research seen in the light of Imre Lakatos' philosophy of research programmes. 20 pages.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Middelalder og vitenskap. Dagbladet.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Juridifisering av medisinen.
  • Show author(s) (2005). Bioteknologiloven i en helserettslig sammenheng. Kritisk juss. 168-183.
  • Show author(s) (2004). Autonomy, discourse ethics and the dimension of ontology.

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