Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen

PhD Candidate

Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities

E-mailElisabeth.Jensen@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 28 65
Visitor Address
Parkveien 9

Ida Bloms hus

5007 Bergen
Postal Address
Postboks 7805

5020 Bergen

Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen is the PhD candidate on Scott Bremer's ERC-funded project CALENDARS.

Elisabeth focuses on seasons in urban environments, asking how we can and do know the seasons in urban environments today. Elisabeth is a member of The Norwegian Researcher School in Environmental Humanities and her supervisors are Scott Bremer, Kyrre Kverndokk and Michelle Bastian.

Elisabeth was also involved in the Co-cli-serv project and the KQA-SMD project.

Interview about the primstav (perpetual calendar), NRK Opptur, 14.10.2023 (in Norwegian) The interview starts in the segment Årets første vinterdag at 15.58 (click on Tidspunkter to see the various segments).
Jury member of Bergen International Film Festival (BIFF)'s The Golden Owl award during the 2022 festival. The Golden Owl (Gulluglen) is the University of Bergen’s competition programme for research and science documentaries. The award was established in 2014 and is a collaboration between BIFF and the University.
Together with Sissel Aasheim & Scott Bremer, presentation at parallel session Local Practices at Climate Change Temporalities: Narratives, Representations and Practices - A conference on humanistic approaches to climate change, University of Bergen, Norway, August 11-13, 2021. Title: Mapping local seasonal change using primstavs. - 11.08.2021
Presentation in online seminar series Phenomenal Time: perceiving ecological temporalities: The Primstav exercise - an engaging and creative way to draw, think and talk about local seasons and climate adaptation - 28.10.2021
Part of event committee for Timely Methods for Novel Times! , an online open space format workshop exploring processes and methods to collectively understand the pressures and possibilities of time. - 12.02.2022

Academic article

Show author(s) (2021). Quality Assessment in Co-developing Climate Services in Norway and the Netherlands. Frontiers in Climate. 1-15.

Report

Show author(s) (2019). Hva sier 1,5-gradersrapporten om lavutslippsomstilling for Vestfold? 02. 02. .

Show author(s) (2018). Potensial og barrierer for kommunale klimatiltak. 03. 03. .
Show author(s) (2018). Hva sier spesialrapporten om 1,5 °C om lavutslippsomstilling for Oslo? 13. 13. .

Popular scientific lecture

Show author(s) (2018). Potensial og barrierer for kommunale klimatiltak.

Academic lecture

Show author(s) (2020). The bumpy road to low-carbon transportation: Comparing Norway’s policies on biofuels and electrification of vehicles .

Show author(s) (2018). Case study car sharing: Update on status and plans.

Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Show author(s) (2022). Local representations of a changing climate. 21 pages.

More information in national current research information system (CRIStin)

CALENDARS project

Co-cli-serv project

KQA-SMD project

Fields of competence

Environmental Humanities

Qualitative research

Science and Technology Studies

Sociology

Time

Research groups

Research Group Theory of science

Seasons they are a-changing

A rich and accessible new book from University of Bergen researchers and collaborators asks readers from all backgrounds to rethink what seasons mean to them.

A view of the front entrance of Ida Blom's hus, where SVT is located

Time flies like an arrow; fruit flies like a banana

PhD candidate Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen will present her PhD essay in the Philosophy and Ethics of the Social Sciences at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT).

Poste for arrangementet: Kvit og rosa tekst på grøn bakgrunn, samt ein illustrasjon av ein stor, rosa blome

The Primstav Exercise

Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen, PhD candidate on the CALENDARS project at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities, will do a presentation in the seminar series "Phenomenal Time: perceiving ecological temporalities."

A grid containing various clock faces and text in different colours

Timely Methods for Novel Times!

The focus for this event is to bring together those interested in working with time in groups and communities, and explore processes and methods to collectively understand the pressures and possibilities of time.

A woman, a man and a cake with a candle shaped as the number 3

Citizen science project wins 3rd place

The project Meet je Stad (Measure your City), which has links to two UiB research projects, has been named the 3rd most sustainable Dutch initiative.

Making a primstav of today

As part of our local communication and engagement work, we developed a creative exercise centered on the traditional Norwegian calendar stick, the primstav.

text on whiteboard for primstav excercise

Making a primstav of today - part II

This spring we ran the primstav exercise again, this time with a local 7th grade school class we have collaborated with and followed for one school year

CALENDARS Project

CALENDARS is an ERC funded project looking at how rapid seasonal changes are affecting institutions in society and how we can re-learn and adapt to seasonal change in new ways.

The CALENDARS project and adapting to seasonality

The CALENDARS project aims to explore how the gardens adapt to changes in seasonality.

Man holds sign saying "Support your local planet"

Knowledge quality assessment as a sensemaking device (KQA-SMD)

This project is an enquiry into the ability for climate change knowledge assessment to strengthen local communities through sensemaking.

A fast-filling Calendar

The CALENDARS project started on New Years day 2019, and it is off to an energetic start!

Co-development of place-based Climate Services for action (Co-Cli-Serv)

Co-Cli-Serv explores novel ways to transform climate science into action-oriented place-based climate services to engage, enable and empower local communities, knowledge brokers and scientists to act locally.