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Gitte Koksvik

Gitte Koksvik

Associate Professor
Department of Social Anthropology

gitte.koksvik@ntnu.no
+4773591751 Låven, Dragvoll
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About

I am a researcher at the programme for applied ethics.

My background is in religious studies, social anthropology and philosophy. My research is mostly centred on health and medicine, with particular emphasis on questions regarding the borderlands of life, end of life, and death. I have also conducted research on energy transitions and adoption of new energy technologies.

My interests include

  • Assisted dying
  • The relationship(s) between human and machine
  • Healthcare ethics
  • Ethnographic methods in applied ethics
  • Neoliberalism and individual responsibilisation
  • Technologies in use/practice
  • Corporate responsibility
  • Business and ethics
  • RRI

Competencies

  • Antropologi
  • Applied ethics
  • Clinical Ethics
  • Death
  • Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Ethnography
  • Euthanasia
  • Neoliberalism
  • Qualitative methods
  • Research ethics
  • Responsible Research and Innovation
  • Terminal care

Publications

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2022

  • Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2022) Sustainable seaweed food and feed – hope or hype?. Transforming food systems: ethics, innovation and responsibility.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

  • Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality.
    Academic article
  • 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. volum 15 (2).
    Editorial

2020

  • 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. volum 10 (3).
    Academic literature review
  • 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
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement. International journal of cultural studies.
    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
  • 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. volum 19 (4).
    Academic article
  • Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, innblanding og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 32 (3).
    Academic article

2018

  • 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. volum 198.
    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
  • Lettmayer, Gudrun; Schwarzinger, Stephan; Koksvik, Gitte; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Velte, Daniela; Dimitrova, Elena; Tasheva-Petrova, Milena; Burov, Angel; Mutafchiiska, Irina; Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Solak, Berfu. (2018) The impact of “Energy memories” on Energy Cultures and energy consumption patterns. 2018.
    Report
  • 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. volum 46.
    Academic article
  • Sæther, Simen Rostad; Qiu, Xinlu; Skaar, Marianne; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Nilsen, Marie; Gauteplass, Asle; Johansen, Jens Petter Kirkhus; Klöckner, Christian A.; Moe, Espen; Koksvik, Gitte; De Boer, Luitzen. (2018) Policy Recommendations: An analysis on collective and energy related decision- making processes of three formal social units. 2018.
    Report

2017

  • Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Burov, Angel; Carrus, Giuseppe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Dimitrova, Elena; Fritsche, Immo; Kaplan, Melike Demirbag; Kløckner, Christian; Koksvik, Gitte; Masson, Torsten; Mutafchiiska, Irina; Panno, Angelo; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Schwarzinger, Stephan; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Tasheva, Milena; Tiberio, Lorenza; Velte, Daniela; Vesely, Stepan. (2017) ECHOES Report. Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings - A comprehensive Literature Review. 2017.
    Report
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 28.
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred. Implicit Religion. volum 20 (2).
    Academic article
  • 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. 2017.
    Report

2016

  • 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. 2016. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2016:184).
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Silent subjects, loud diseases: Enactment of personhood in intensive care. Health. volum 20 (2).
    Academic article

2015

  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Dignity in Practice: Day-to-Day Life in Intensive Care Units in Western Europe. Medical Anthropology. volum 34 (6).
    Academic article

2013

  • Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen; Clark, David. (2013) Death and Dying. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

  • Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality.
    Academic article
  • 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. volum 15 (2).
    Editorial
  • 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. volum 10 (3).
    Academic literature review
  • 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
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement. International journal of cultural studies.
    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
  • 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. volum 19 (4).
    Academic article
  • Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, innblanding og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift. volum 32 (3).
    Academic article
  • 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. volum 198.
    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. volum 46.
    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. volum 28.
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred. Implicit Religion. volum 20 (2).
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Silent subjects, loud diseases: Enactment of personhood in intensive care. Health. volum 20 (2).
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Dignity in Practice: Day-to-Day Life in Intensive Care Units in Western Europe. Medical Anthropology. volum 34 (6).
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2022) Sustainable seaweed food and feed – hope or hype?. Transforming food systems: ethics, innovation and responsibility.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen; Clark, David. (2013) Death and Dying. Key Concepts in Medical Sociology.
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Lettmayer, Gudrun; Schwarzinger, Stephan; Koksvik, Gitte; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Velte, Daniela; Dimitrova, Elena; Tasheva-Petrova, Milena; Burov, Angel; Mutafchiiska, Irina; Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Solak, Berfu. (2018) The impact of “Energy memories” on Energy Cultures and energy consumption patterns. 2018.
    Report
  • Sæther, Simen Rostad; Qiu, Xinlu; Skaar, Marianne; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Nilsen, Marie; Gauteplass, Asle; Johansen, Jens Petter Kirkhus; Klöckner, Christian A.; Moe, Espen; Koksvik, Gitte; De Boer, Luitzen. (2018) Policy Recommendations: An analysis on collective and energy related decision- making processes of three formal social units. 2018.
    Report
  • Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Burov, Angel; Carrus, Giuseppe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Dimitrova, Elena; Fritsche, Immo; Kaplan, Melike Demirbag; Kløckner, Christian; Koksvik, Gitte; Masson, Torsten; Mutafchiiska, Irina; Panno, Angelo; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Schwarzinger, Stephan; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Tasheva, Milena; Tiberio, Lorenza; Velte, Daniela; Vesely, Stepan. (2017) ECHOES Report. Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings - A comprehensive Literature Review. 2017.
    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. 2017.
    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. 2016. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2016:184).
    Doctoral dissertation

Teaching

Courses

  • SANT1022 - Ethnographic Method

Media

2022

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2022) Verdighet, lidelse og kontroll. Døden som kulturelt fenomen. Landskonferansen i palliasjon 2022 ; 2022-09-16 - 2022-09-16.
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2022) Sustainable seaweed food and feed - hope or hype?. EURSAFE 2022: Transforming Food Systems . University of Edinburgh; Edinburgh. 2022-09-07 - 2022-09-10.

2021

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2021) En ny norsk tareindustri - muligheter og hindringer. SIG Seaweed . Sintef; Trondheim. 2021-11-26.

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Legeassistert død - ars moriendi i biomedisinens samfunn?. Årskonferanse i Norsk antropologisk forening 2017 . Norsk antropologisk forening, Høyskolen i Innlandet; Lillehammer. 2017-05-05 - 2017-05-07.
  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Sunny Trøndelag?. MATCH project meeting . NTNU; NTNU Dragvoll. 2017-03-20 - 2017-03-21.
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) “This is what is coming”: Sociotechnical imaginaries of the energy future. A case study of Norwegian early adopters of solar panel technology. 4S . Society for social studies of science; Boston. 2017-08-30 - 2017-09-02.
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, 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.
  • Academic lecture
    Ryghaug, Marianne; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Urban automation experiments and the user: Creating invasive technologies or New possibilities for inclusion?. Urban automation workshop . Urban Institute, University of Sheffield; Sheffield. 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-06.

2016

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Døden på Intensiven - kunstig eller naturlig?. Midtnorsk intensivforum ; 2016-03-03 - 2016-03-04.

2015

  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, 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.
  • Lecture
    Koksvik, 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.
  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Something that cannot be put into words? Modern biomedicine, secularity and the sacred. CUFF workshoå . CUFF; 2015-12-16 - 2015-12-18.

2014

  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2014) A voice for the inexpressive patient. Enactment of personhood in the ICU. ICCEC 2014 ; Paris. 2014-04-24 - 2014-04-26.
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, 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.
  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2014) Internseminar. Subjektet i intensivpleien. Internt seminar ved sosialantropologisk institutt ; 2014-03-26 - 2014-03-26.

2013

  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2013) Intensive care medicine: clinical-ethical and existential issues. The ethics and politics of objectification, measurement and standardization . CUFF, NTNU; Trondheim. 2013-10-25 - 2013-10-27.
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