I am an associate professor at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture, and I and a visiting researcher at SUM. I currently lead the five-year project 'A Middle Way? Probing Sufficiency through Meat and Milk in China' (MidWay - ERC Starting Grant), which aims to gain a better understanding of the concept 'sufficiency' using the cases of meat and milk production and consumption in China.
I am also involved with research on deep decarbonisation and wide societal change in the Norwegian Centre for Energy Transition Strategies (FME NTRANS - 2019-2027), the MEATigation project (NRC 2020-2024), which explores how meat is embedded in Norwegian food practices, the COJUST-project and the GreenBlack-project.
Between May 2016 and February 2020 I was a post doctoral researcher connected to the Research Centre on Zero Emission Neighbourhoods in Smart Cities (FME ZEN) and the Centre for Sustainable Energy Studies (FME CenSES). I focussed on the role of "prosumers" and new forms of energy use in low-energy buildings and neighborhoods, comparing prosumers with respect to energy use and household practices in urban dwellings and neighborhoods in China and Norway. During my postdoc period I wrote the book "Wind and Solar Energy Transition in China". I also led task 1.1. on community building and citizen engagement in the TRANS-URBAN-EU-CHINA project (H2020).
Academic interests
- Energy Transition
- Sustainability
- Sufficiency
- China
- Innovation
- Technology and Society
- Wind and solar energy
- Meat consumption and sustainable agriculture
- Public participation and engagement
- Inter- and transdisciplinarity
- Improvisational theatre and science communication
Background
- M.Phil. in Culture, Environment and Sustainability (2012), Centre for Development and the Environment, University of Oslo. Thesis title: "The Growth of a Green Industry - Wind Turbines and Innovation in China" Link: https://www.duo.uio.no/handle/123456789/32635
- B.A. History, University of Oslo (2011)
- B.A International Relations, University of Oslo (2009)
Courses
- KULT8123 - Environmental Sustainability and Societal Transformation
- KULT2205 - STS: Innovation, Knowledge and Communication
- KULT8124 - Environmental Sustainability and Societal Transformation