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
Postboks 7805

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.

Media

UiB articles

Ethics of Quantification - podcast with Professor Ted Porter

Understanding global societal challenges

With a critical eye on food security quantification

Rethinking Economics Norway (articles in Norwegian)

Den samfunnsøkonomiske inkvisjonen

Klassekampen (articles in Norwegian)

Svoltkatastrofa i Jemen (behind paywall)

Morgenbladet (articles in Norwegian)

Kritiske fag er demokratiets kanarifuglar (behind paywall)

På marknadsplassen døyr vitskapen

Vil vitskapen redde oss?

Bergens Tidende (articles in Norwegian)

Norsk våpeneksportkontroll held verken vatn eller kuler

Kvifor gjev UiB sin mest kjente talarstol til ein blodtørst krigshauk? (behind paywall)

Røyst (article in Norwegian)

Låge krav til krigshauk

Events

Youth Atlantic Treaty Association Norway

Event: Bærekraftskonferansen 2021 (Sustainability Conference 2021) - 23.-24.10.2021. Presentation: Food security and indicators for the sustainability goals. Thor Olav speaks about his doctoral project about quantification of food security.

Centre on Law & Social Transformation

Event: The Quality of Life Agenda in Norway - Master's week 2020 - 10.02.2020

Research groups

Research Group Theory of science

Twitter

Tweets by @toiversen

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.