Heidrun Åm
About
I am an Associate Professor at the Department for Sociology and Political Science at the Norwegian University for Science and Technology (NTNU). My background is in Political Sciences, and Science and Technology Studies (STS). My research is on the governance of science and technology, with a focus on nano- and biotechnology research, sustainable energy and society, and interdisciplinarity. I am particularly interested in the governance of commons and in democratic decision-making. My research is based on qualitative methods. My approach draws on interpretive (policy) analysis, concepts from STS (such as co-production of science and society, and actor-network theory), and political discourse theory.
Currently, I am leading the research project “Res Publica. Responsibility, practice, and the public good across Digital Life”. This project is a concomitant research project to the newly founded, national Centre for Digital Life Norway. From 2016-2018, I was group leader for "Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI)" at this center. In 2017, I have become enrolled in NTNU's Outstanding Academic Fellows Programme.
Publications
2022
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Metzler, Ingrid;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2022)
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power.
Policy & Politics.
volum 50 (2).
Academic article
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Åm, Heidrun.
(2022)
Oppdrettslaks i medvind og motvind.
Matens meglere. Kontroll, kvalitet og kunnskap i den industrielle matens tid.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2021
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Delgado, Ana;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2021)
Biologisk mangfold og selvråderett - hvorfor digitale genetiske data ikke er "den nye oljen".
Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.
volum 38 (01-02).
Academic article
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Åm, Heidrun.
(2021)
A critical policy study on why introducing resource rent taxation in Norwegian salmon aquaculture failed.
Marine Policy.
volum 131.
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Frøyhaug, Marte.
(2021)
Dokumenter som kvalitative primærdata.
En smak av forskning. Bacheloroppgaven som prosjekt, prosess og produkt.
Chapter
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Åm, Heidrun;
Frøyhaug, Marte;
Tøndel, Gunhild.
(2021)
Helsedata som gullgruve? Forventninger til kommersialisering av helsedata i Norge.
Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.
volum 38 (1-2).
Academic article
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Åm, Heidrun;
Fuglestad, Eirik Magnus;
Vik, Jostein.
(2021)
Grunnrentelandet.
Klassekampen.
Feature article
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Åm, Heidrun;
Magin, Melanie.
(2021)
Bruk av andres forskning.
En smak av forskning. Bacheloroppgaven som prosjekt, prosess og produkt.
Chapter
2020
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Hesjedal, Maria Bårdsen;
Åm, Heidrun;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan;
Strand, Roger.
(2020)
Transforming Scientists’ Understanding of Science–Society Relations. Stimulating Double‑Loop Learning when Teaching RRI.
Science and Engineering Ethics.
volum 26.
Academic article
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Åm, Heidrun;
Solbu, Gisle;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan.
(2020)
The imagined scientist of science governance.
Social Studies of Science.
Academic article
2019
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Åm, Heidrun.
(2019)
Limits of decentered governance in science-society policies.
Journal of Responsible Innovation.
volum 6 (2).
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2019)
What next, DLN?.
Website (informational material)
2018
-
Delgado, Ana;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2018)
Experiments in interdisciplinarity: Responsible research and innovation and the public good.
PLoS Biology.
volum 16:e2003921 (3).
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2018)
Ethics as ritual: smoothing over moments of dislocation in biomedicine.
Sociology of Health and Illness.
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Åm, Trond Grønli.
(2018)
Forskningsetikk: Mindre press framfor flere krav.
www.universitetsavisa.no.
Letter to the editor
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Åm, Heidrun;
Åm, Trond Grønli.
(2018)
Tappet for energi.
www.universitetsavisa.no.
Letter to the editor
2017
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2017)
Forskningspolitikken må tenke nytt.
NITO-refleks.
Feature article
2016
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Brautaset, Trygve;
Åm, Heidrun;
Aune, Marie Hjelmseth.
(2016)
Dragvoll og Gløshaugen trenger hverandre.
Adressavisen.
Feature article
-
Finstad, Terje;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2016)
Hva slags utdanning og kunnskap trengs for å skape en bedre verden?.
Universitetsavisa.
Feature article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2016)
Den evige usikkerheten.
Klassekampen.
Feature article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2016)
Making policy move. Towards a politics of translation and assemblage, by John Clarke, Dave Bainton, Noémi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs.
Critical Policy Studies.
volum 10 (2).
Academic literature review
2015
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2015)
Co-production and public policy: evidence, uncertainty, and socio-materiality.
Handbook of Critical Policy Studies.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2015)
The sun also rises in Norway: Solar scientists as transition actors.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
volum 16.
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan.
(2015)
Preparing for new solar cells through integrated research: challenges in translating social robustness into the selection of materials.
Practices of Innovation and Responsibility: insights from methods, governance and action.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
2014
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Durnová, Anna;
Åm, Heidrun;
Portschy, Jürgen;
Braun, Kathrin;
Turnbull, Nick;
Fischer, Frank.
(2014)
Herbert Gottweis remembered by colleagues.
Critical Policy Studies.
volum 8 (4).
Short communication
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2014)
Quibbling and the Fallacy of Critical Scholarship: Response to Thorstensen.
NanoEthics.
volum 8 (3).
Short communication
2013
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2013)
‘Don’t make nanotechnology sexy, ensure its benefits, and be neutral’: Studying the logics of new intermediary institutions in ambiguous governance contexts.
Science and Public Policy.
volum 40 (4).
Academic article
2012
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2012)
Buchbesprechung Wullweber: HEGEMONIE, DISKURS UND POLITISCHE ÖKONOMIE Haddad: ZWISCHEN LABOR UND GESELLSCHAFT.
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft.
Book review
2011
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2011)
Crossroads as Places.
EASST Review.
volum 30 (3).
Editorial
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2011)
Regulating the Unknown: Governing Nanotechnologies by a Logic of Pre-emption.
2011.
Doctoral dissertation
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Åm, Heidrun.
(2011)
Trust as Glue in Nanotechnology Governance Networks.
NanoEthics.
volum 5 (1).
Academic article
2010
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2010)
Uncertainty, Governance.
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society.
Lexical introduction
Journal publications
-
Metzler, Ingrid;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2022)
How the governance of and through digital contact tracing technologies shapes geographies of power.
Policy & Politics.
volum 50 (2).
Academic article
-
Delgado, Ana;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2021)
Biologisk mangfold og selvråderett - hvorfor digitale genetiske data ikke er "den nye oljen".
Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.
volum 38 (01-02).
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2021)
A critical policy study on why introducing resource rent taxation in Norwegian salmon aquaculture failed.
Marine Policy.
volum 131.
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Frøyhaug, Marte;
Tøndel, Gunhild.
(2021)
Helsedata som gullgruve? Forventninger til kommersialisering av helsedata i Norge.
Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift.
volum 38 (1-2).
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Fuglestad, Eirik Magnus;
Vik, Jostein.
(2021)
Grunnrentelandet.
Klassekampen.
Feature article
-
Hesjedal, Maria Bårdsen;
Åm, Heidrun;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan;
Strand, Roger.
(2020)
Transforming Scientists’ Understanding of Science–Society Relations. Stimulating Double‑Loop Learning when Teaching RRI.
Science and Engineering Ethics.
volum 26.
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Solbu, Gisle;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan.
(2020)
The imagined scientist of science governance.
Social Studies of Science.
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2019)
Limits of decentered governance in science-society policies.
Journal of Responsible Innovation.
volum 6 (2).
Academic article
-
Delgado, Ana;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2018)
Experiments in interdisciplinarity: Responsible research and innovation and the public good.
PLoS Biology.
volum 16:e2003921 (3).
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2018)
Ethics as ritual: smoothing over moments of dislocation in biomedicine.
Sociology of Health and Illness.
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Åm, Trond Grønli.
(2018)
Forskningsetikk: Mindre press framfor flere krav.
www.universitetsavisa.no.
Letter to the editor
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Åm, Trond Grønli.
(2018)
Tappet for energi.
www.universitetsavisa.no.
Letter to the editor
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2017)
Forskningspolitikken må tenke nytt.
NITO-refleks.
Feature article
-
Brautaset, Trygve;
Åm, Heidrun;
Aune, Marie Hjelmseth.
(2016)
Dragvoll og Gløshaugen trenger hverandre.
Adressavisen.
Feature article
-
Finstad, Terje;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Åm, Heidrun.
(2016)
Hva slags utdanning og kunnskap trengs for å skape en bedre verden?.
Universitetsavisa.
Feature article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2016)
Den evige usikkerheten.
Klassekampen.
Feature article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2016)
Making policy move. Towards a politics of translation and assemblage, by John Clarke, Dave Bainton, Noémi Lendvai and Paul Stubbs.
Critical Policy Studies.
volum 10 (2).
Academic literature review
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2015)
The sun also rises in Norway: Solar scientists as transition actors.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
volum 16.
Academic article
-
Durnová, Anna;
Åm, Heidrun;
Portschy, Jürgen;
Braun, Kathrin;
Turnbull, Nick;
Fischer, Frank.
(2014)
Herbert Gottweis remembered by colleagues.
Critical Policy Studies.
volum 8 (4).
Short communication
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2014)
Quibbling and the Fallacy of Critical Scholarship: Response to Thorstensen.
NanoEthics.
volum 8 (3).
Short communication
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2013)
‘Don’t make nanotechnology sexy, ensure its benefits, and be neutral’: Studying the logics of new intermediary institutions in ambiguous governance contexts.
Science and Public Policy.
volum 40 (4).
Academic article
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2012)
Buchbesprechung Wullweber: HEGEMONIE, DISKURS UND POLITISCHE ÖKONOMIE Haddad: ZWISCHEN LABOR UND GESELLSCHAFT.
Österreichische Zeitschrift für Politikwissenschaft.
Book review
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2011)
Crossroads as Places.
EASST Review.
volum 30 (3).
Editorial
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2011)
Trust as Glue in Nanotechnology Governance Networks.
NanoEthics.
volum 5 (1).
Academic article
Part of book/report
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2022)
Oppdrettslaks i medvind og motvind.
Matens meglere. Kontroll, kvalitet og kunnskap i den industrielle matens tid.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Frøyhaug, Marte.
(2021)
Dokumenter som kvalitative primærdata.
En smak av forskning. Bacheloroppgaven som prosjekt, prosess og produkt.
Chapter
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Magin, Melanie.
(2021)
Bruk av andres forskning.
En smak av forskning. Bacheloroppgaven som prosjekt, prosess og produkt.
Chapter
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2015)
Co-production and public policy: evidence, uncertainty, and socio-materiality.
Handbook of Critical Policy Studies.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Åm, Heidrun;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan.
(2015)
Preparing for new solar cells through integrated research: challenges in translating social robustness into the selection of materials.
Practices of Innovation and Responsibility: insights from methods, governance and action.
Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2010)
Uncertainty, Governance.
Encyclopedia of Nanoscience and Society.
Lexical introduction
Report
-
Åm, Heidrun.
(2011)
Regulating the Unknown: Governing Nanotechnologies by a Logic of Pre-emption.
2011.
Doctoral dissertation
INFORMASJONSMATR
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Åm, Heidrun.
(2019)
What next, DLN?.
Website (informational material)
Teaching
Courses
Media
2022
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2022) Health data policies in Norway. Sociotechnical imaginary or competing political visions?. Nordic worksop on Health, data and welfare state ; 2022-06-16 - 2022-06-17.
2021
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2021) Forestillinger om forskere i forskningspolitikk og -praksis: Forskjellige logikker i spill. NEON årskonferanse . NEON; Lillehammer. 2021-11-25 - 2021-11-26.
2020
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2020) Exploring choreographies of responsibilities: Biotechnology research, farmed salmon, and public issues. 4S/EASST conference . Society for the Social Study of Science (4S); Prague (virtual). 2020-08-18 - 2020-08-21.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2020) The Norwegian debate on tax on rent in salmon farming. A pragmatist policy analysis of an attempt of re-politicizing salmon governance. ECPR Conference: Interpretive Approaches to Policy Studies. Developments, Challenges and Ways Forward . ECPR Standing group; Virtual. 2020-09-02 - 2020-09-04.
2019
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Academic lectureSolbu, Gisle; Åm, Heidrun. (2019) How many jobs has your research created? Constructing Value From Norwegian Biotechnology Research. STS Conference Graz 2019 . Graz University of Technology; Graz. 2019-05-06 - 2019-05-07.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2019) Doing RRI in Norway. Invited lecture . Institut für Höhere Studien; Vienna. 2019-05-21 - 2019-05-21.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2019) Politics instead of ethics: Which room for transformative science policy interventions in research practice?. STS Austria Meeting . STS Austria; Vienna. 2019-02-19 - 2019-02-19.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2019) Which Common Good Do We Talk About? Digital Life Norway and Value Creation. DLN Annual Conference . Digital Life Norway (DLN); Tromsø. 2019-09-05 - 2019-09-06.
2018
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Programme participationNRK, P2; Tufte, Gunnar; Åm, Heidrun; hareide, dag; Grinde, Bjørn. (2018) Vestfrontmøtet: Vil du oppgradere til kroppen 2.0?. NRK radio [Radio]. 2018-08-02.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2018) Hvordan integrere RRI i forskningspraksis?. NARMA vårkonferanse 2018 . Norsk nettverk for forskningsadministrasjon (NARMA); Lillestrøm. 2018-03-06 - 2018-03-07.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2018) STS and democratization of science-society-relations. 30th Anniversary Center for Technology and Society at NTNU . CTS, NTNU; Trondheim. 2018-09-28 - 2018-09-28.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2018) The republic of ELSA and RRI. ELSA Norway conference . ELSA Norway Network; Hurtigruten, Norway. 2018-11-02 - 2018-11-04.
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Programme participationÅm, Heidrun. (2018) VESTFRONTMØTET: Vil du oppgradere til kroppen 2.0?. Panelsamtale under Olavsfestdagene, overført på NRK P2 [Radio]. 2018-08-02.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2018) Why STS scholars must not be innocents abroad. University of Edinburgh Science, Technology and Innovation Studies seminar series . Science, Technology & Innovation Studies; Edinburgh. 2018-10-08 - 2018-10-08.
2017
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2017) Politicizing science governance with "Responsible Research and Innovation"?. 11th Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis (IPA) . DMU Leicester; Leicester. 2017-07-05 - 2017-07-07.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun; Loeber, Anne M.C.. (2017) Addressing Res Publica in science and technology: Responsible Research and Innovation as an approach to organizing democratic practices in a networked society. Science & Democracy . Techno-Anthropology, Aalborg University; Copenhagen. 2017-11-23 - 2017-11-24.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun; Sørensen, Knut Holtan. (2017) Three coins in the fountain: anticipation, hope and responsibility in the pursuit of science. 2017 Annual S.NET Meeting ; Phoenix, AZ. 2017-10-08 - 2017-10-11.
2016
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2016) Bringing a Practice Perspective to Responsible Research and Innovation. 11th conference in Interpretative Policy Analysis ; Hull. 2016-07-05 - 2016-07-07.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2016) Cyborgs for and with society. NTNU Cyborg meeting . NTNU Cyborg project; 2016-02-05 - 2016-02-05.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2016) RRI in the Center for Digital Life Norway. ELSA Norway conference . ELSA Norway network; Hurtigruten Trondheim - Tromsø. 2016-04-11 - 2016-04-13.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2016) Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI) as decentered governance: Practices of governance and practices of freedom in researchers’ daily lives. Science and technology by other means . 4S/EASST conference; Barcelona. 2016-08-31 - 2016-09-03.
2015
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2015) Bringing STS concepts to Policy Sciences. After LSG. Looking Back & Looking Ahead . Life Science Governance Research Platform; Vienna. 2015-01-22 - 2015-01-23.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2015) Dimensions of power in democratization of science. 10th International Conference in Interpretive Policy Analysis . CERAPS; Lille. 2015-07-08 - 2015-07-10.
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LectureÅm, Heidrun. (2015) Getting it right the first time? Nanotechnology governance in the shadow of the past. Nano2021 Workshop on responsible technology development . Forskningsrådet; Oslo. 2015-04-09 - 2015-04-10.
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LectureÅm, Heidrun. (2015) "Regulating the Unknown" - Is this possible?. Nano2021 Workshop on responsible technology development . Forskningsrådet; Oslo. 2015-04-09 - 2015-04-10.
2014
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Academic lectureHeidenreich, Sara; Klimek, Alexandra; Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Åm, Heidrun. (2014) Making post carbon publics: Technoscientists’ constructions of and engagement with the public. 4S Annual Meeting ; 2014-08-20 - 2014-08-24.
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PosterÅm, Heidrun. (2014) Co-production of nanotechnology regulations. "Social construction of technology coming of age: new challenges and opportunities ahead" . Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU; Trondheim. 2014-06-03 - 2014-06-05.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2014) The SoRoSol-Case: Boundary objects as ways, means, and ends in integrated research?. Snet 6th Annual Meeting . ITAS KIT; Karlsruhe. 2014-09-21 - 2014-09-24.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun; Lagesen, Vivian Anette. (2014) How publics make publics: ‘Othering’ as an energy transitions logic. 4S/ESOCITE ; Buenos Aires. 2014-08-20 - 2014-08-23.
2013
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2013) Lys i tunnelen: Solenergiforskeres strategier og visjoner i en krisetid. CenSES årsmøte . CenSES; Oslo. 2013-12-09 - 2013-12-10.
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PosterÅm, Heidrun; Yang, Xiaodong; Thorstensen, Anne Elisabeth; Gibson, Ursula; Sørensen, Knut H.; Myskja, Bjørn; Nydal, Rune; Svendsen, Kristin V Hirsch; Fet, Annik; Ladam, Cecile; Reenaas, Turid Worren. (2013) Are solar cell scientists socially responsible?. Norwegian Solar Cell Conference . NTNU, IFE, SINTEF, UiO; Oppdal. 2013-03-13.
2012
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2012) New Materials in Solar Cells: Can Social Science Contribute?. SNET CONFERENCE 2012 . Society for the Study of Nanoscience and Emerging Techn.; University of Twente. 2012-10-22 - 2012-10-25.
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Academic lectureÅm, Heidrun. (2012) Solar Energy In Norway: Discrepancies of Presents and Futures. 4S/EASST conference 2012 . 4S and EASST; Copenhagen. 2012-10-17 - 2012-10-20.