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Kristin Asdal and Bård Hobæk write about parliamentary politics in new issue of Social Studies of Science. 

OSIRIS is fundamentally about understanding the process through which research makes some kind of difference in society. These strange and dramatic times highlight why we need such knowledge. In our most recent blog post, we reflect upon how our work touches on the current coronavirus situation.

The blog post can be found here.

OSIRIS is fundamentally about understanding the process through which research makes some kind of difference in society. These strange and dramatic times highlight why we need such knowledge.

A PhD course on the bioeconomy was held in Oslo 9-13 December as part of the ERC Little Tools project.

Most likely yes, but removing barriers is not the same as opening the floodgates, says OSIRIS ph.d candidate Lars Wenaas.

The Little Tools team met for two days of lively discussions on the project and works in progress.

On November 8th, professor Barry Bozeman (Arizona State University) visited the OSIRIS consortium meeting and gave a keynote speech titled Public values criteria in science policy and evaluation: Challenges of moving from theory to application.

On November 7th, Mireille Matt visited OSIRIS and gave a talk on  real-time impact assessment.

On November 7-8, OSIRIS gathered for an intensive consortium workshop. Seven drafts for scientific papers were presented and reviewed, as well as several new ideas for upcoming papers and case studies.

Little Tools postdoc Hilde Reinertsen participates in panel on our relationship to nature.

The lecture, on "an ethnography of documents", was part of a PhD course on ethnography in STS.

On September 11, Hilde Reinertsen participated in panel on the value of the ocean at the National Theater in Oslo.

The workshop was held at Tøyen in Oslo 14-15 October, with open lectures from invited speakers Eve Chiapello and Andrew Barry.

TIK participated in organizing a stand at the Oslo Science Expo, 20-21 September.

Kristin Asdal held a presentation on document analysis at a workshop on methods held in Trondheim, 17 September.

The 2019 conference of the Society for Social Studies of Science took place from September 3 to 7 in New Orleans. TIK was there!

Kristin Asdal and Béatrice Cointe presented a paper at the 2019 EGOS Colloquium in Edinburgh.

OSIRIS researchers from Oslo and Manchester participated with a total of three papers in this year's ECPR conference in Wrocław.

The new working paper is co-written by all members of the Little Tools Research team, and titled "The Good Economy: Re-casting the bioeconomy, its normativities and its trouble."

The new working paper is titled "Experiments in co-modification: A relational take on the becoming of commodities and the making of market value". 

What can we learn from Brexit? What can we expect from the newly elected European Parliament and the new leaders of the Commission, and what does it mean for Norway? These were some of the main questions ARENA asked at Arendalsuka. 

Kristin Asdal represented the Little Tools team at the European Society for Environmental History (ESEH) conference in Tallinn.

Hilde Reinertsen and Kristin Asdal address how the blue economy is calculated in a new article in Journal of Cultural Economy.

In autumn 2019, OSIRIS will organize a workshop with Norwegian firms on measuring industrial R&D.

What does it take for research to be put into use? OSIRIS invited 32 practitioners from Norwegian public organizations to Blindern in April 2019 for an intro course in research policy and the impact of science.