Sara Heidenreich
Background and activities
Sara Heidenreich is researcher at the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture. Sara is educated Magistra Artium in Social Anthropology, Political Science and Comparative Literature from Freie Universität in Berlin, and PhD in Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (Science and Technology Studies - STS) from NTNU in Trondheim.
Research interests
- Energy citizenship
- Socialization of technology
- Sustainability transitions
- Public engagement
- Science communication
- Renewable energy (wind and hydropower)
Current projects
- NTNU Team Society
- HydroFlex - Increasing the value of Hydropower through Increased Flexibility (Horizon 2020)
- CliCNord - Climate Change Resilience in Small Communities in the Nordic Countries (NordForsk)
- FME NTRANS, Research area 1 "Deep decarbonization and wide societal changes"
- Capacity building for socially just and sustainable energy transitions (NORHED)
Previous projects
- SHAPE-ENERGY - Social Sciences and Humanities for Advancing Policy in European Energy (Horizon 2020)
- CenSES (Center for Sustainable Energy Studies), work package 1.3. "Public engagement to build energy citizenship" in Research Area 1 "Policy making and transition strategies"
- Peer-to-peer education on smart use of Information and Communication Technologies (useITsmartly)
- Public Acceptance of Post Carbon Strategies
Scientific, academic and artistic work
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Journal publications
- (2020) Expanding the scope and implications of energy research: A guide to key themes and concepts from the Social Sciences and Humanities. Energy Research & Social Science. vol. 63:101398.
- (2019) Who is telling whose story? The effectiveness of peer-to-peer approaches as inclusive participatory interventions towards sustainability. Sustainable Production and Consumption. vol. 21.
- (2018) Creating energy citizenship through material participation. Social Studies of Science. vol. 48 (2).
- (2017) Outreaching, Outsourcing, and Disembedding: How Offshore Wind Scientists Consider Their Engagement with Society. Science, Technology and Human Values. vol. 43 (3).
- (2016) Out of Sight, out of Mind? Controversy over Offshore Wind Energy in Norway's News Media. Science as Culture. vol. 25 (4).
- (2015) Sublime technology and object of fear: offshore wind scientists assessing publics. Environment and planning A. vol. 47 (5).
Report/dissertation
- (2019) Strategic Research Agenda of the EERA Joint Programme Hydropower. 2019.
- (2018) Hydropower Providing Flexibility for a Renewable Energy System: Three European Energy Scenarios. 2018.
- (2017) Energy & gender - a social sciences and humanities cross- cutting theme report. 2017.
- (2017) Competitive, secure, low-carbon energy supply – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography. 2017.
- (2017) Energy efficiency and using less – a social sciences and humanities annotated bibliography. 2017.
- (2016) Opplæring av Grønn IT-ambassadører. En håndbok. 2016.
- (2015) Grønn IT‐ambassadører. Didaktisk konsept for IT‐Peer opplæring. 2015.
- (2014) Chapter 4.9: NOR1_Computer games on green IT & Chapter 4.10: NOR2_Theatre play. In: Thomas Berger & Anita Thaler: D 4.1. Collection of 10 didactical concepts for the application of the vehicle approach for educational settings. 2014.
- (2014) Blowing in the wind: The socialization of offshore wind technology. 2014. ISBN 978-82-326-0484-5.
Others
- (2018) Grønn teknologi og energimedborgerskap. CenSES årskonferanse. Ren energi til alle! . CenSES; Oslo, Scandic Holmenkollen Park. 2018-11-21.
- (2017) The role of energy citizenship and material participation in socio-technical transitions. CenSES klima og energikonferanse 2017 . NTNU/CenSES; Oslo. 2017-12-07 - 2017-12-08.
- (2016) Citizen Social Science in Schools: Involving students in finding and communicating solutions for energy efficient ICT practices. First International ECSA Citizen Science Conference ; 2016-05-19 - 2016-05-21.
- (2016) Creating energy citizenship through material participation. Energy and Society Conference ; 2016-09-12 - 2016-09-14.
- (2016) Practicing proximity, doing sustainability: Experiments with cities and citizens’ responses to climate change. 4S/EASST Conference ; 2016-08-31 - 2016-09-03.
- (2015) Avfall og forbruk: Barn og unge. Medvirkningsdag: Avfall og forbruk . Trondheim Kommune, Sør-Trøndelag fylkeskommune; Trondheim. 2015-11-12.
- (2015) Konstruksjonen av en lav-karbon allmennhet: forskeres oppfatninger om og engasjement med allmennheten. CenSES årskonferanse ; 2015-12-03 - 2015-12-04.
- (2015) Socialisation of offshore wind technology: Scientists as agents of socialisation. EERA DeepWind'2015 ; 2015-02-04 - 2015-02-06.
- (2015) Grønn IT-ambassadør opplæring III: Opplæring av 60 Vg1 + Vg2 elever til grønn IT-ambassadører. Presentasjoner, workshops, gruppearbeid etc. om bl.a. IKT og energibruk, energivennlig IKT-bruk, gjenbruk og resirkulering, grønn IT etc. Grønn IT-ambassadør opplæring på Tiller vgs. Grønn IT-ambassadør opplæring ; 2015-10-21 - 2015-10-28.
- (2015) The digitalization of the school and its environmental challenges:Engaging Youth to Reflect on and Change their Use of ICTs. STS Conference Graz ; 2015-05-11 - 2015-05-12.
- (2015) Green innovation and society - a citizen perspective. Climate change, innovation and the circular economy . Climate-KIC Nordic, NTNU, World Watch Institute; Trondheim. 2015-09-25.
- (2014) Outreaching, outsourcing, and disembedding: How offshore wind scientists consider their engagement with the public. Social construction of technology coming of age: new challenges and opportunities ahead ; 2014-06-03 - 2014-06-05.
- (2014) Sosialisering av teknologi for vindkraft til havs: Forskere som sosialiseringsagenter. CenSES årskonferanse 2014 ; 2014-12-04 - 2014-12-05.
- (2014) Making post carbon publics: Technoscientists’ constructions of and engagement with the public. 4S Annual Meeting ; 2014-08-20 - 2014-08-24.
- (2014) "Miljøkommunikasjon? Den sosio-tekniske løsningen." Sammen med ungdommer fra UngEnergi hadde vi en stand på forskningstorget med ulike aktiviteter for barn og voksne om fornybar energi (med fokus på solenergi) og om IKT og energi. Forskningstorget ; 2014-09-19 - 2014-09-20.
- (2013) Imagining knowledge deficits without filling the gaps: How offshore wind scientists conceptualize science-public relations. 4S Annual Meeting ; San Diego. 2013-10-09 - 2013-10-12.
- (2013) "Out of Sight, Out of Mind". Public engagement with offshore wind energy in Norway. SFFE Lunch lecture . SFFE - Senter for fornybar energi; Trondheim. 2013-03-13.
- (2013) Welcome to my front yard! Public attitudes towards and engagement with renewable energy. Annual meeting, Society for social studies of science ; San Diego. 2013-10-09 - 2013-10-12.