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

Ida Bloms hus

5007 Bergen
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, 768 million people remain undernourished globally, up 135 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.

You can read more about the project here.

Mentions

As one of three researchers, Thor Olav was mentioned by the Dean, Camilla Brautaset, in her presentation of the Faculty of Humanities at the university board meeting 2 February 2022. She highlighted his research as an example of the insights that can be found in humanities-based projects. Thor Olav's research on the methods used in food security quantification is important, since it can impact policies for reducing hunger.

Media

UiB articles

Ethics of Quantification - podcast with Professor Ted Porter

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

Samviten (student magazine for the Faculty of Social Science at UiB)

Interviewed in the article Fra "søppel" til kunst (From "garbage" to art)

Events

Bergen Global (CMI/UiB)

Event moderator for Bergen Global events (2021-)
In conversation with Julia Marinaccio (UiB) and Harald Bøckman (UiO: All that Xi wants: A conversation on China-Taiwan relations
In conversation with Morten Bøås (Nupi) about DR Kongo's UN problem (August 2022)
Moderator for Fire konflikter forklart (Four conflicts explained - Ethiopia, Sudan, Mosambique and Afghanistan). Organized by Bergen Global in collaboration with National Science Week (September 2021)
Podcast conversation with Silvio Funtowicz: On Post-Normal Science (November 2019)
Chaired lecture with Silvio Funtowicz: On the rhetoric of sustainability (November 2019)

SAIH

Panelist at SAIH Bergen event Decolonization of academia: What, why, how? (October 2022)

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

All that Xi wants: A conversation on China-Taiwan relations

Black and white picture of Prime Minister Viktor Orbán

Orbán Out?

In the upcoming Hungarian elections, national conservative Orbán stands against another conservative. The opposition is a united front of 11 parties and social movements, all seeking to bring down Orbán. But will they succeed?

Blue sky and yellow wheat field, alluding to the flag of Ukraine

Fury, Fuel & Food

What are the global consequences of the war in Ukraine?

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

SVT's Silvio Funtowicz and Thor Olav Iversen about "the crisis in science" and the origin of 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.