Research projects
The Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities (SVT) is in charge of and participates in a range of larger and smaller research projects.
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SVT has the last couple of years successfully won several bids for external funding, but the centre also has several self-funded projects.
Below, you will find information about SVT’s on-going projects, project managers and funding sources and programmes. Click on the project for more information.
- You can find an overview of SVT’s completed projects here.
European Framework Programme (Horizon 2020/Horizon Europe)
Excellent Science
Under the pillar Excellent Science, SVT has two SEAS postdoctoral fellows under the Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) COFUND scheme. The COFUND scheme aims to stimulate regional, national or international programmes to foster excellence in researchers' training, mobility and career development, spreading the best practices of the Marie Skłodowska-Curie actions.
Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness
Under the pillar Global Challenges and European Industrial Competitiveness - Cluster 6: Food, Bioeconomy, Natural Resources, Agriculture and Environment, the SVT has one HORIZON-RIA (Research and Innovation Action) project.
Jeroen van der Sluijs | BUTTERFLY | HORIZON-RIA
Project: Mainstreaming pollinator stewardship in view of cascading ecological, societal and economic impacts of pollinator decline
Project manager: Jeroen van der Sluijs
Project duration: 2024-2029
Aistė Klimašauskaitė | SEAS | MSCA COFUND 2020
Project: Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability (SEAS)
Postdoctoral fellow at SVT: Aistė Klimašauskaitė
Project duration: 2022-2027
Thomas Völker | SEAS | MSCA COFUND 2020
Project: Shaping European Research Leaders for Marine Sustainability (SEAS)
Postdoctoral fellow at SVT: Thomas Völker
Project duration: 2022-2027
Research Council of Norway (NFR)
The NFR works to promote research and innovation of high quality and relevance and to generate knowledge in priority areas to enable Norway to deal with key challenges to society and the business sector.
Projects, centres and research schools financed by the NFR:
Roger Strand | ARINA | Network and learning arena – TEKNOKONVERGENS
Project: ARINA: Responsible Radical Innovation: Network and learning arena.
Project manager: Roger Strand
Project duration: 2024–2028
Kjetil Rommetveit | DIGIT | Research school – FORSKSKOLE
Project: DIGIT: Norwegian Research School on Digitalization, Culture and Society
Partner at SVT: Kjetil Rommetveit
Project duration: 2022–2030
Kjetil Rommetveit | CoPol | Researcher project – SAMRISK
Project: CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as Digital Politics
Project manager: Kjetil Rommetveit
Project duration: 2021–2025
Kjetil Rommetveit | ASMOG | Collaborative project – MAROFF-2
Project: ASMOG: Automation Shift in the Maritime Sector of the Oil and Gas Industry: Assessing Risk and Safety, Protecting Labor
Partner at SVT: Kjetil Rommetveit
Project duration: 2021–2026
Mimi E. Lam | MENSA | Researcher project – MARINFORSK
Project: Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities (MENSA)
Project manager: Mimi E. Lam
Project duration: 2020–2025
Jan Reinert Karlsen | Neuro-SysMed: Philosophy of Neurodegeneration | Centre for Clinical Treatment Research (FKB)
Project: Neuro-SysMed: Philosophy of Neurodegeneration
Project manager at SVT: Jan Reinert Karlsen
Project duration: 2019-2027
Roger Strand | CCBIO | Centre of Excellence (SFF)
Centre: Centre for Cancer Biomarkers
Lead researcher at SVT: Roger Strand
Centre duration: 2013-
From 2013-2023, the centre was funded by the SFF scheme. From 2024, CCBIO continues with funding from the University of Bergen (central level) and several sources of external funding.
PhD and postdoctoral projects
At present, SVT has nine PhDs and one UiB-funded postdoctoral fellow who are working on their theses:
Emma Jane Lord | Forest carbon offsetting | UiB
Emma Jane Lord has recently conducted a body of fieldwork on the social outcomes of forest carbon offsetting in Western Tanzania.
She is currently analyzing her results in light of questions concerning dimensions of justice (economic distribution of benefits, recognition of social groups and procedural processes of participation and representation) whether and how to design accountability mechanisms for forest carbon offsetting policies that are international in scale.
This research on deforestation processes and governance is interdisciplinary and relates to the concept of environmental justice within the field of political ecology.
Dafne Lemus | Controversies on endocrine disruptors | UiB
Dafne Lemus’ project seeks to study the role of deep uncertainty and scientific dissent on ongoing chemical risk controversies.
Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen | CALENDARS project | H2020 – ERC
Elisabeth Schøyen Jensen is the PhD candidate on Scott Bremer’s CALENDARS project.
The project will empirically explore the relationship between different institutions’ ideas of seasons and their successful adaptation through an in-depth comparative study in two local communities in Norway and New Zealand.
Magdalena Wicher | SUPER MoRRI project | H2020 – SwafS
Magdalena Wicher is the PhD candidate on the SUPER MoRRI project. In her thesis, she focuses on governance aspects of RRI.
Mathias Venning | CONFER project at NORCE | H2020 - Societal challenges
Mathias Venning is employed at NORCE and admitted to the PhD programme via the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities. He is currently working within the H2020-EU funded CONFER project, which focuses on climate adaptation through co-production of climate services in East Africa.
Johannes Andresen Oldervoll | CoPol project | NFR - SAMRISK
Johannes Andresen Oldervoll is the PhD candidate on the CoPol project, which studies Covid-19 contact tracing as digital politics and as data practice on the interfaces between technology, public health and fundamental rights.
Audun Syltevik | Normative assumptions of research in moral psychology | UiB
Audun Syltevik's project is about the normative assumptions of research in moral psychology. He asks questions about both the ethical dimensions of research on morality and the role of ethics in the sciences of morality. Hopefully this can also illuminate somewhat the question of the proper relationship between ethics and social science.
José Francisco Orozco-Meléndez | Shaping power in climate change adaptation strategies | UiB
José Francisco Orozco-Meléndez’ current research focuses on the co-production of climate knowledge and adaptation strategies with vulnerable communities in different geographies and social contexts. His research aims to discuss how power relations and dynamics can be accounted for in different traditions of extended science to support the representation of marginalized worldviews and knowledge systems in fairer climate adaptation strategies.
Ronya Reitan Solberg | How is marine sustainability translated into practice? | UiB
Ronya Reitan Solberg's PhD project broadly seeks to understand how marine sustainability is translated into practice within national and international institutions and expert panels, and hence bringing clarity on the relations between science, politics and society in questions on marine sustainability. She wants to study the science-policy interface in the UN Ocean Decade by investigating how interdisciplinary knowledge is produced and orchestrated in order to inform national policy processes driven by goals on marine sustainability.
Rose Trappes | Citizen science in ecology | UiB
Rose Trappes' postdoctoral project focuses on citizen science in ecology. She is looking at how big citizen science platforms are used around the globe to document and study biodiversity. How does public participation affect ecological research? What is the epistemic value of citizen science? She will be focusing especially on whether and how big citizen science contributes to epistemic diversity in ecology, and what this means for its value for ecological research.
