About

I am an associate professor at the Department of Sociology and Political Sciences at NTNU, Trondheim. My research focus is on technology and social change. Currently, I am particularly interested in questions of democracy, power, and the public good when it comes to data governance and natural resource management. I did research on science governance, biotechnology politics, farmed salmon, sustainability transitions, transdisciplinarity, and digitalization. I am a member of the Standing group 'Theoretical perspectives on policy analysis.' I use a broad range of qualitative, interpretive methods, and I mainly draw on Critical Policy Studies and Science and Technology Studies (STS). While my PhD was in political sciences, I know work within sociology.

Research Interests

Citizenship, Civil Society, Contentious Politics, Cyber Politics, Democracy, Environmental Policy, Gender, Governance, Policy Analysis, Political Theory, Public Policy, Knowledge, Political Sociology, Critical Theory, Feminism, Post-Structuralism, Qualitative Comparative Analysis, Climate Change, Comparative Perspective, Lobbying, Mobilisation, Power, Technology, Activism, Big Data, Capitalism

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Standing Groups and Research Networks

• Theoretical Perspectives in Policy Analysis