Thor Olav Iversen

PhD Candidate

Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities

E-mailThor.Iversen@uib.no
Phone+47 55 58 29 83
Visitor Address
Parkveien 9
Postal Address
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5020 BERGEN

The doctoral project seeks to develop a critical framework for assessing food security quantification. Food insecurity and hunger is still endemic in developing countries. According to the most used food security indicator, 800 million people remain undernourished globally, down 170 million from two decades ago. Such estimates however depend on the methodology used to quantify food security. Measurement methods also impact the form, targeting, scale and timing of an aid response.

UiB articles

Ethics of Quantification - podcast with Professor Ted Porter

Understanding global societal challenges

With a critical eye on food security quantification

Morgenbladet (articles in Norwegian)

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Research groups

Research Group Theory of science

Ethics of Quantification - podcast with Prof. Ted Porter

PhD candidate Thor Olav Iversen talked to the acknowledged Professor Theodore Porter about the history of numbers in science and society, governing by privatized algorithm and many other things.

Understanding global societal changes

SVTs Silvio Funtowicz and Thor Olav Iversen about "the crisis in science" and the origin on post normal science.

With a critical eye on food security quantification

Thor Olav Iversen's doctoral project seeks to develop a critical framework for assessing food security quantification. We had a quick talk with the PhD candidate.