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)
Excellent Science
Under the pillar Excellent Science, SVT has one project funded by the European Research Council (ERC), whose mission is to encourage the highest quality research in Europe through competitive funding and to support investigator-driven frontier research across all fields, on the basis of excellent science, and two projects funded by Marie Skłodowska Curie Actions (MSCA) – grants for all stages of researchers’ careers – be they doctoral candidates or highly experienced researchers. MSCA encourages transnational, intersectoral and interdiscplinary mobility.
Project funded under Excellent Science:
Scott Bremer | CALENDARS | ERC Starting Grant
Project: Co-production of Seasonal Representations for Adaptive Insitutions
Project manager: Scott Bremer
Project duration: 2019-2024
Arnald Puy Maeso | SIZE | MSCA Global Fellowship
Project: The role of size in the sustainability of irrigation systems (SIZE)
Project manager: Arnald Puy Maeso
Project duration: 2019-2022
Simon Meisch | CANALS | MSCA European Fellowship
Project: Changing Water Cultures (CANALS)
Project manager: Simon Meisch
Project duration: 2021-2023
Science with and for Society (SwafS)
Science with and for Society (SwafS) in H2020 had as its object to build effective cooperation between science and society, to recruit new talent for science and to pair scientific excellence with social awareness and responsibility.
Projects financed under SwafS:
Roger Strand | TRANSFORM | SwafS-2019-1
Project: TRANSFORM: Territories as Responsive and Accountable Networks of S3 through new Forms of Open and Responsible decision-Making
Project manager at SVT: Roger Strand
Project duration: 2020-2022
Kjetil Rommetveit and Roger Strand | SUPER MoRRI | SwafS-2018-1
Project: Scientific Understanding and Provision of an Enhanced and Robust Monitoring system for RRI
Project managers at SVT: Kjetil Rommetveit and Roger Strand
Project duration: 2019-2023
Jeroen van der Sluijs | RECIPES | SwafS-2018-1
Project: REconciling sCience, Innovation and Precaution through the Engagement of Stakeholders
Project manager at SVT: Jeroen van der Sluijs
Project duration: 2019-2022
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 financed by the NFR:
Kjetil Rommetveit | CoPol | Researcher project – SAMRISK
Project: CoPol: Covid-19 contact tracing as Digital Politics
Project manager: Kjetil Rommetveit
Project duration: 2021–2025
Mimi E. Lam | MENSA | Researcher project – MARINFORSK
Project: Managing Ethical Norwegian Seascape Activities (MENSA)
Project manager: Mimi E. Lam
Project duration: 2020–2024
Jeroen van der Sluijs | BeeCaution | FORSTERK
Project: Bees pesticides and precaution: building an epistemic network in Norway
Project manager: Jeroen van der Sluijs
Project duration: 2020–2022
Jan Reinert Karlsen | NeuroSysMed | Centre for Clinical Treatment Research (FKB)
Project: A Systems Medicine Approach to Restructure Norwegian Clinical Neurology
Project manager at SVT: Jan Reinert Karlsen
Centre duration: 2019-2027
Anne Bremer | AFINO | SAMANSVAR
Project: Ansvarlig forskning og innovasjon i Norge (Responsible research and innovation in Norway)
Project manager at SVT: Anne Bremer
Project duration: 2019-2024
Jeroen van der Sluijs | #LoVESeSDG | MILJØFORSK
Project: #LoVeSeSDG: Localizing and developing SDG-thinking for local communities
Project manager at SVT: Jeroen van der Sluijs
Project duration: 2019-2022
Roger Strand | Res Publica | BIOTEK2021
Project: Res Publica: Responsibility, practice and the public good across Digital Life
Project manager at SVT: Roger Strand
Project duration: 2017-2022
Roger Strand | CCBIO | Centre of Excellence (SFF)
Centre: Centre for Cancer Biomarkers
Lead researcher at SVT: Roger Strand
Centre duration: 2013-2023
Co-funded projects
SVT is also involved in two co-funded projects:
SeMPER-Arctic is financed by The Belmont Forum, a partnership of funding organizations, international science councils, and regional consortia committed to the advancement of transdisciplinary science. Research councils in France, Norway, Russia, Sweden and the Netherlands are funding the project.
UNESCO Global Independent Expert Group is financed by UiB (SDG Norway – National Committee for Agenda 2030 in Higher Education) and UNESCO.
Anne Bremer | SeMPER-Arctic | The Belmont Forum: Arctic2019 – Science for Sustainability
Project: SeMPER-Arctic: Sense Making, Place attachement, and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic
Project manager at SVT: Anne Bremer
Project duration: 2020-2023
Thomas Völker | UNESCO Global Independent Expert Group | UiB and UNESCO
Project: UNESCO Global Independent Expert Group
Scientific coordinator at SVT: Thomas Völker
Project duration: 2020-2022
PhD projects
At present, SVT has seven PhDs who are working on their theses:
Thor Olav Iversen | Assessing food security quantification | UIB
Thor Olav Iversen’s 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.
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.
