Gitte Hanssen Koksvik
About
Associate professor in Social Anthropology
I have a background in religious studies, philosophy and social anthropology. My research has primarily centred on health and the medical domain, with particular focus on the borders of life and end of life.
My areas of interest include
- Assisted dying
- Palliative care
- Aging and old age
- The relationship between human and machine
- Ethics in healthcare (medicine, bioethics, nursing ethics)
- Ethnographic methods in applied ethics
- Neoliberalism and individual responsibilisation
- Technologies in use
- Corporate social responsibility
Affiliated researcher with University of Glasgow End of Life Studies Group.
Publications
2022
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Koksvik, Gitte;
Myskja, Bjørn Kåre.
(2022)
Sustainable seaweed food and feed – hope or hype?.
Wageningen Academic Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2021
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Thorseth, May Britt;
Alvarez, Allen Andrew;
Stabell, Espen Dyrnes;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2021)
Fostering hope and resilience amidst intractable ethical dilemmas brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Etikk i praksis
Editorial
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Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi.
(2021)
Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’.
Mortality
Academic article
2020
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Koksvik, Gitte.
(2020)
Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: Examples from Quebec.
Wellcome Open Research
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi;
Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Materstvedt, Lars Johan;
Clark, David.
(2020)
Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying.
Health
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2020)
Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement.
International journal of cultural studies
Academic article
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Richards, Naomi;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Clark, David.
(2020)
The Global Spread of Death Café: A Cultural Intervention Relevant to Policy?.
Social Policy and Society
Academic article
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Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi;
Materstvedt, Lars Johan;
Clark, David.
(2020)
Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Québec.
Annals of Palliative Medicine
Academic literature review
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Simonsen, Jan Ketil;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2020)
For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, innblanding og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
Academic article
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Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi;
Materstvedt, Lars Johan;
Clark, David.
(2020)
The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Academic literature review
2018
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Lettmayer, Gudrun;
Schwarzinger, Stephan;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Velte, Daniela;
Dimitrova, Elena.
(2018)
The impact of “Energy memories” on Energy Cultures
and energy consumption patterns.
ECHOES project
Report
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Sæther, Simen Rostad;
Qiu, Xinlu;
Skaar, Marianne;
Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth;
Nilsen, Marie;
Gauteplass, Asle.
(2018)
Policy Recommendations:
An analysis on collective and energy related decision- making processes of three formal social units.
EC/H2020
Report
-
Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe;
Nilsen, Marie;
Demir, Muhittin Hakan;
Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2018)
Examining the barriers and motivators affecting European decision-makers in the development of smart and green energy technologies.
Journal of Cleaner Production
Academic literature review
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2018)
Medically timed Death as an enactment of good Death: An ethnographic study of Three European intensive care units.
Omega - Journal of Death and Dying
Academic article
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Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Throndsen, William;
Ryghaug, Marianne;
Fjellså, Ingvild Firman;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2018)
Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: New empirical and conceptual insights.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
2017
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Throndsen, William;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Ryghaug, Marianne.
(2017)
Case study report Norway - Findings from case studies of PV Pilot Trøndelag, Smart Energi Hvaler and Asko Midt-Norge.
MATCH project
Report
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Koksvik, Gitte.
(2017)
Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred.
Implicit Religion
Academic article
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Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe;
Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe;
Burov, Angel;
Carrus, Giuseppe;
Demir, Muhittin Hakan;
Dimitrova, Elena.
(2017)
ECHOES Report. Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings - A comprehensive Literature Review.
European Commission
European Commission
Report
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Koksvik, Gitte.
(2017)
Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død .
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
Academic article
2016
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Koksvik, Gitte.
(2016)
Blurry lines and Spaces of tension. Clinical-ethical and Existential issues in Intensive Care.
A study of Three European Intensive Care Units.
Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2016:184)
Doctoral dissertation
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Koksvik, Gitte.
(2016)
Silent subjects, loud diseases: Enactment of personhood in intensive care.
Health
Academic article
2015
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Koksvik, Gitte.
(2015)
Dignity in Practice: Day-to-Day Life in Intensive Care Units in Western Europe.
Medical Anthropology
Academic article
2013
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Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen;
Clark, David.
(2013)
Death and Dying.
Sage Publications
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Journal publications
-
Thorseth, May Britt;
Alvarez, Allen Andrew;
Stabell, Espen Dyrnes;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2021)
Fostering hope and resilience amidst intractable ethical dilemmas brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic.
Etikk i praksis
Editorial
-
Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi.
(2021)
Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’.
Mortality
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2020)
Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: Examples from Quebec.
Wellcome Open Research
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi;
Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Materstvedt, Lars Johan;
Clark, David.
(2020)
Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying.
Health
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2020)
Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement.
International journal of cultural studies
Academic article
-
Richards, Naomi;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Clark, David.
(2020)
The Global Spread of Death Café: A Cultural Intervention Relevant to Policy?.
Social Policy and Society
Academic article
-
Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi;
Materstvedt, Lars Johan;
Clark, David.
(2020)
Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Québec.
Annals of Palliative Medicine
Academic literature review
-
Simonsen, Jan Ketil;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2020)
For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, innblanding og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid.
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
Academic article
-
Gerson, Sheri Mila;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Richards, Naomi;
Materstvedt, Lars Johan;
Clark, David.
(2020)
The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature.
Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
Academic literature review
-
Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe;
Nilsen, Marie;
Demir, Muhittin Hakan;
Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2018)
Examining the barriers and motivators affecting European decision-makers in the development of smart and green energy technologies.
Journal of Cleaner Production
Academic literature review
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2018)
Medically timed Death as an enactment of good Death: An ethnographic study of Three European intensive care units.
Omega - Journal of Death and Dying
Academic article
-
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Throndsen, William;
Ryghaug, Marianne;
Fjellså, Ingvild Firman;
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2018)
Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: New empirical and conceptual insights.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2017)
Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred.
Implicit Religion
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2017)
Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død .
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2016)
Silent subjects, loud diseases: Enactment of personhood in intensive care.
Health
Academic article
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2015)
Dignity in Practice: Day-to-Day Life in Intensive Care Units in Western Europe.
Medical Anthropology
Academic article
Part of book/report
-
Koksvik, Gitte;
Myskja, Bjørn Kåre.
(2022)
Sustainable seaweed food and feed – hope or hype?.
Wageningen Academic Publishers
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen;
Clark, David.
(2013)
Death and Dying.
Sage Publications
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
Report
-
Lettmayer, Gudrun;
Schwarzinger, Stephan;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Velte, Daniela;
Dimitrova, Elena.
(2018)
The impact of “Energy memories” on Energy Cultures
and energy consumption patterns.
ECHOES project
Report
-
Sæther, Simen Rostad;
Qiu, Xinlu;
Skaar, Marianne;
Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth;
Nilsen, Marie;
Gauteplass, Asle.
(2018)
Policy Recommendations:
An analysis on collective and energy related decision- making processes of three formal social units.
EC/H2020
Report
-
Throndsen, William;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Koksvik, Gitte;
Ryghaug, Marianne.
(2017)
Case study report Norway - Findings from case studies of PV Pilot Trøndelag, Smart Energi Hvaler and Asko Midt-Norge.
MATCH project
Report
-
Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe;
Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe;
Burov, Angel;
Carrus, Giuseppe;
Demir, Muhittin Hakan;
Dimitrova, Elena.
(2017)
ECHOES Report. Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings - A comprehensive Literature Review.
European Commission
European Commission
Report
-
Koksvik, Gitte.
(2016)
Blurry lines and Spaces of tension. Clinical-ethical and Existential issues in Intensive Care.
A study of Three European Intensive Care Units.
Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2016:184)
Doctoral dissertation
Media
2022
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2022) Sustainable seaweed food and feed - hope or hype?. University of Edinburgh EURSAFE 2022: Transforming Food Systems , Edinburgh 2022-09-07 - 2022-09-10
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LectureKoksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2022) Verdighet, lidelse og kontroll. Døden som kulturelt fenomen. . Landskonferansen i palliasjon 2022 2022-09-16 - 2022-09-16
2021
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LectureKoksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2021) En ny norsk tareindustri - muligheter og hindringer. Sintef SIG Seaweed , Trondheim 2021-11-26 -
2017
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Ryghaug, Marianne. (2017) Prosumers in practice: energy transitions in everyday. hopefulNESS 2017 The 13th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference 2017-06-06 - 2017-06-08
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Academic lectureRyghaug, Marianne; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Urban automation experiments and the user: Creating invasive technologies or New possibilities for inclusion?. Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Urban automation workshop , Sheffield 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-06
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2017) Legeassistert død - ars moriendi i biomedisinens samfunn?. Norsk antropologisk forening, Høyskolen i Innlandet Årskonferanse i Norsk antropologisk forening 2017 , Lillehammer 2017-05-05 - 2017-05-07
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2017) “This is what is coming”: Sociotechnical imaginaries of the energy future. A case study of Norwegian early adopters of solar panel technology. Society for social studies of science 4S , Boston 2017-08-30 - 2017-09-02
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LectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2017) Sunny Trøndelag?. NTNU MATCH project meeting , NTNU Dragvoll 2017-03-20 - 2017-03-21
2016
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LectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2016) Døden på Intensiven - kunstig eller naturlig?. Midtnorsk intensivforum 2016-03-03 - 2016-03-04
2015
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LectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2015) Something that cannot be put into words? Modern biomedicine, secularity and the sacred. . CUFF CUFF workshoå 2015-12-16 - 2015-12-18
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LectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2015) Promoting the Dignity and Integrity of Vulnerable Patients: Engaged Proximity or Respectful Distance. Ethics of Caring. 3rd National Nursing Ethics Conference. "Confersations in Ethics" 2015-03-19 - 2015-03-20
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2015) Keynote: Giving Voice to the Unexpressive Patient. Ethics of Caring. 3rd National Nursing Ethics Conference "Conversatoins in Ethics" 2015-03-19 - 2015-03-20
2014
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2014) Don’t mind me. I am just here to observe”. Moral-Ethical Quandaries of Observation in the Hospital Clinic. The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures III, Third Annual CUFF Conference 2014-08-18 - 2014-08-20
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LectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2014) Internseminar. Subjektet i intensivpleien. Internt seminar ved sosialantropologisk institutt 2014-03-26 - 2014-03-26
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2014) A voice for the inexpressive patient. Enactment of personhood in the ICU. ICCEC 2014 , Paris 2014-04-24 - 2014-04-26
2013
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Academic lectureKoksvik, Gitte. (2013) Intensive care medicine: clinical-ethical and existential issues. CUFF, NTNU The ethics and politics of objectification, measurement and standardization , Trondheim 2013-10-25 - 2013-10-27