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Sofia Moratti

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Sofia Moratti

Associate professor
Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture
Faculty of Humanities

sofia.moratti@ntnu.no
Dragvoll, Bygg 6, Rom 6421
About Research Publications Teaching Outreach

About

Sofia Moratti is associate professor in Gender, Equality and Diversity Studies. She leads the research group Gender, Science, and Technology.

Her research focuses on the societal, ethical, and legal aspects of new technologies, as well as on equality and diversity in academic careers. She is involved in several national and international projects on these topics, which are listed under Research.

Her background is in law, sociology, and philosophy with a focus on ethics. She has a PhD from the University of Groningen (2009). Before joining NTNU in 2016, she worked at the European University Institute in Florence and at the University of Trieste.

Moratti teaches and supervises students at all levels and has been actively engaged in research dissemination through various national and international projects, as described under Teaching and Outreach.

Research

Recent and ongoing projects:

  • DISPLACEDSCHOLARS [Fritt Ord foundation, 2024-25]. Academic freedom and knowledge-sharing in Norway and at home: Displaced scholars speak out (project leader)
  • GEN-PHD [Fremtidens Campus project, 2023-24]. GENder perspectives on Physical/Hybrid/Digital working practices at NTNU (project leader)
  • ProGender [EEA Iceland-Norway-Liechtenstein grants, 2021-22]. A digital hub on gender, the COVID-19 crisis and its aftermath (project coordinator for NTNU)
  • GENDIM [NFR BALANSE, 2019-23]. Understanding gender balance among university professors (WP leader)
  • Likestilling nedenifra [NFR BALANSE, 2015-19]. Making gender balance from below: Stimulating gender equality among university professors (project member)
  • EpiJustInf [NFR SAMRISK, 2020-24]. Risk in the information society: Towards epistemic justice (project member)
  • Robotics4EU [H2020 ICT, 2021-24]. Responsible robotics in Europe (project member)
  • BIAS [H2020 RIA, 2022-26]. Mitigating diversity bias of Artificial Intelligence in the labour market (project member)
  • Gender, Science and Technology (GST)

Publications

  • Chronological
  • By category
  • All publications registered in NVA

2026

  • Moratti, Sofia; Hellstrand, Ingvil; Bruijning, Nienke; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2026) Gender imaginaries in sci-fi and real-life AI and the ongoing relevance of second-wave feminism. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2026) The home as a normative space: working from home and the persistence of women’s ‘mental load’. Journal of Gender Studies
    Academic article

2024

  • Ask, Kristine; Moratti, Sofia; Arntsen, Kim-Andre Myhre; Wang, Shan; Kristiansson, Nora Lovise Erika; Nygaard, Birgitte. (2024) Editorial. Celebrating Young Scholars. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
    Editorial
  • Hembre, Rikke; Moratti, Sofia; Sletten, Martine. (2024) "Det er vanskelig å skulle lære opp noen til noe, når loven sier noe helt annet" - En kvalitativ undersøkelse av unge voksnes holdninger til voldtekt, samtykke og lovgivning i Norge. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Reynisdottir, Audur Helga; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2024) «Men vi er jo en klinikk for prevensjon, vi er jo ikke en skeiv organisasjon!»: Et studie av seksuell helsehjelp for lesbiske. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Drågen, Ask Kristian Bergseth; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2024) “Neither man nor Woman, Neither and Both”: Exploring Gender/Sex Outside the Binary in Speculative Fiction. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Thorsen, Marte; Moratti, Sofia; Ringrose, Priscilla Marie. (2024) Fra Midtøsten til Øst-Europa: Variasjoner i Norges behandling av flyktninger under to krisetider - En kvalitativ studie basert på erfaringene til ansatte i flyktningtjenesten. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Mackessy, Hannah Thronæs; Moratti, Sofia; Sætermo, Turid Fånes. (2024) "Også skjer det noe snedig, for plutselig er vi en gruppe" En kvalitativ studie av hvordan festivalfrivillighet kan bidra til innvandreres integrering i det norske samfunnet. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis

2023

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2023) Criminal Insanity in Norwegian Law between Care and Societal Protection.
    Academic chapter

2022

  • Klubben, Ada; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Moratti, Sofia. (2022) "Det handler ikke om å telle, det handler om å prøve å få ut potensialet" En kvalitativ studie om likestilling og mangfold på norske arbeidsplasser i lys av arbeidsgivers aktivitets- og redegjørelsesplikt. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Moratti, Sofia; Ask, Kristine. (2022) Editorial. Reflecting on communal responsibility in science. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
    Editorial
  • Mikkelsen, Line; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2022) Tenk på en kvinne du ser opp til: En fenomenologisk undersøkelse av norske kvinners rollemodeller. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Bergsaker, Adeleide Charlotte Riise; Moratti, Sofia; Ringrose, Priscilla Marie. (2022) Koronapandemiens skoletaper? En kvalitativ casestudie om hvordan kontaktlærere har erfart kjønnede forskjeller blant 10.klasse-elever under skolestengningen våren 2020. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Pedersen, Hanna Elise; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2022) Representasjoner av voldtekt på Stortinget – En dokumentanalyse av de folkevalgtes uttalelser om voldtekt. NTNU
    Master thesis
  • Meek, Margret; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2022) “Man gjør det jo bare for oppmerksomhet”. En analyse av unge bifiles opplevelser med fordommer i det norske samfunnet og konsekvensene disse møtene har. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Jacobsen, Isak Nathaniel Løberg; Moratti, Sofia; Engh, Mari Haugaa. (2022) "You are either a man or a woman - you can't do both." A critical analysis of transmasculine negotiations of pregnancy, gender and cisnormativity. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2022) «Academic excellence» på norsk? Critical genealogy of a gendered, imported concept.
    Academic chapter

2021

  • Kharas, Mark William; Søraa, Roger Andre; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Societal Readiness Plan for Robotics4EU. Robotics4EU Project
    Research report
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
    Academic article
  • Holm, Ingrid Kvist; Moratti, Sofia; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2021) Nytt sted, nytt språk og nytt system - En kvalitativ studie av hvordan foreldre som selv er født og oppvokst i et annet land opplever å være barnehageforeldre i Norge. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Kirpichenko, Maria; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Lie, Merete; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Bioteknologiske framtider. Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Academic article

2020

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2020) A woman’s place is in the ‘home’? Gender-specific hiring patterns in academia in gender-equal Norway. Journal of Sociology
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2020) Do Low-Openness, Low-Transparency Procedures in Academic Hiring Disadvantage Women?. Social Sciences
    Academic article

2019

  • Sivertsen, Ida; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Moratti, Sofia. (2019) Et kjønnsblikk på barnehagelærerutdanningen - en studie av hvordan kjønn virker gjennom utdanningsløpet fra rekruttering til faglig opplegg og i barnehagepraksis. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Moratti, Sofia. (2019) The publication culture at the Faculty of Humanities, NTNU A survey. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Research report

2018

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2018) What's in a word? On the use of metaphors to describe the careers of women academics. Gender and Education
    Academic article

2016

  • Moratti, Sofia; Patterson, Dennis. (2016) Legal Insanity and the Brain. Bloomsbury Academic
    Non-fiction monograph

2015

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2015) Fertility control.
    Academic chapter

2014

  • Moratti, Sofia; Patterson, Dennis. (2014) Adverse Psychological Effects to Deep Brain Stimulation: Overturning the Question. AJOB Neuroscience
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2014) Schmitz, il progressista borghese. Lo Svevo politico [Schmitz, the progressive bourgeois. Svevo's political writings].
    Non-fiction chapter

2013

  • Moratti, Sofia; Ceva, Emanuela. (2013) Whose self-determination? Barriers to access to Emergency Hormonal Contraception in Italy. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Brain Imaging as a Diagnostic and as a Communicative Tool in Disorders of Consciousness. European University Institute Working Papers
    Academic article

2012

  • Moratti, Sofia; Vezzoni, Cristiano. (2012) Treatment Directives in the Netherlands: The Gap between Legal Regulation and Medical Practice.
    Academic chapter

2011

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2011) Ethical and legal acceptability of the use of neuro-muscular blockers (NMBs) in connection with abstention decisions in Dutch NICUs: interviews with neonatologists. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article

2010

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) The parents' ability to take care of their baby as a factor in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging treatment in two Dutch NICUs. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatology. Medical Law Review
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Pignotti, Maria Serenella. (2010) Regulation of treatment of infants at the edge of viability in Italy: the role of the medical profession?. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Pignotti, Maria Serenella. (2010) The Italian Ministry of Health recommends resuscitation for all pre-term infants irrespective of gestational age and parental consent. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) The Englaro case: withdrawal of treatment from a patient in a Permanent Vegetative State in Italy. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) Non-treatment decisions on grounds of ‘medical futility’ and definition of ‘quality of life’: interviews with 14 Dutch neonatologists. Issues in law & medicine
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) Management of conflicts with the parents over administration of life-prolonging treatment in two Dutch NICUs: interviews with neonatologists. Medicine and law : an international journal
    Academic article

2009

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2009) The development of medical futility: towards a procedural approach based on the role of the medical profession. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2009) La proporzionalità delle cure in neonatologia: un documento della Società Olandese di Pediatria. Bioetica
    Academic article

2008

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2008) Il Protocollo di Groningen: conversazioni con Eduard Verhagen. Bioetica
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2008) End-of-life decisions in Italy.
    Academic chapter

2007

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2007) Ontluikend begrip voor levensbeëindiging in Italië. Medisch Contact
    Popular science article

Journal publications

  • Moratti, Sofia; Hellstrand, Ingvil; Bruijning, Nienke; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2026) Gender imaginaries in sci-fi and real-life AI and the ongoing relevance of second-wave feminism. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2026) The home as a normative space: working from home and the persistence of women’s ‘mental load’. Journal of Gender Studies
    Academic article
  • Ask, Kristine; Moratti, Sofia; Arntsen, Kim-Andre Myhre; Wang, Shan; Kristiansson, Nora Lovise Erika; Nygaard, Birgitte. (2024) Editorial. Celebrating Young Scholars. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
    Editorial
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2008) Il Protocollo di Groningen: conversazioni con Eduard Verhagen. Bioetica
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2007) Ontluikend begrip voor levensbeëindiging in Italië. Medisch Contact
    Popular science article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) The parents' ability to take care of their baby as a factor in decisions to withhold or withdraw life-prolonging treatment in two Dutch NICUs. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics Through Metaphors. Feminist Encounters: A Journal of Critical Studies in Culture and Politics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) End-of-life decisions in Dutch neonatology. Medical Law Review
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Ceva, Emanuela. (2013) Whose self-determination? Barriers to access to Emergency Hormonal Contraception in Italy. Kennedy Institute of Ethics Journal
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2011) Ethical and legal acceptability of the use of neuro-muscular blockers (NMBs) in connection with abstention decisions in Dutch NICUs: interviews with neonatologists. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Pignotti, Maria Serenella. (2010) Regulation of treatment of infants at the edge of viability in Italy: the role of the medical profession?. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Pignotti, Maria Serenella. (2010) The Italian Ministry of Health recommends resuscitation for all pre-term infants irrespective of gestational age and parental consent. Archives of Disease in Childhood: Fetal and Neonatal Edition
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Patterson, Dennis. (2014) Adverse Psychological Effects to Deep Brain Stimulation: Overturning the Question. AJOB Neuroscience
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) The Englaro case: withdrawal of treatment from a patient in a Permanent Vegetative State in Italy. Cambridge Quarterly of Healthcare Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2009) The development of medical futility: towards a procedural approach based on the role of the medical profession. Journal of Medical Ethics
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Ask, Kristine. (2022) Editorial. Reflecting on communal responsibility in science. Nordic Journal of Science and Technology Studies
    Editorial
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) Non-treatment decisions on grounds of ‘medical futility’ and definition of ‘quality of life’: interviews with 14 Dutch neonatologists. Issues in law & medicine
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2010) Management of conflicts with the parents over administration of life-prolonging treatment in two Dutch NICUs: interviews with neonatologists. Medicine and law : an international journal
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia; Baggio, Giosuè. (2013) Brain Imaging as a Diagnostic and as a Communicative Tool in Disorders of Consciousness. European University Institute Working Papers
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2009) La proporzionalità delle cure in neonatologia: un documento della Società Olandese di Pediatria. Bioetica
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2020) A woman’s place is in the ‘home’? Gender-specific hiring patterns in academia in gender-equal Norway. Journal of Sociology
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2018) What's in a word? On the use of metaphors to describe the careers of women academics. Gender and Education
    Academic article
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2020) Do Low-Openness, Low-Transparency Procedures in Academic Hiring Disadvantage Women?. Social Sciences
    Academic article
  • Stuvøy, Ingvill; Kirpichenko, Maria; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Lie, Merete; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Bioteknologiske framtider. Refleksjoner over endringene i bioteknologiloven fra et kjønnsforskningsperspektiv. Tidsskrift for kjønnsforskning
    Academic article

Books

  • Moratti, Sofia; Patterson, Dennis. (2016) Legal Insanity and the Brain. Bloomsbury Academic
    Non-fiction monograph

Part of book/report

  • Moratti, Sofia. (2023) Criminal Insanity in Norwegian Law between Care and Societal Protection.
    Academic chapter
  • Moratti, Sofia; Vezzoni, Cristiano. (2012) Treatment Directives in the Netherlands: The Gap between Legal Regulation and Medical Practice.
    Academic chapter
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2008) End-of-life decisions in Italy.
    Academic chapter
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2015) Fertility control.
    Academic chapter
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2014) Schmitz, il progressista borghese. Lo Svevo politico [Schmitz, the progressive bourgeois. Svevo's political writings].
    Non-fiction chapter
  • Moratti, Sofia. (2022) «Academic excellence» på norsk? Critical genealogy of a gendered, imported concept.
    Academic chapter

Report

  • Kharas, Mark William; Søraa, Roger Andre; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Societal Readiness Plan for Robotics4EU. Robotics4EU Project
    Research report
  • Sørensen, Knut Holtan; Moratti, Sofia. (2019) The publication culture at the Faculty of Humanities, NTNU A survey. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Research report

Student thesis or dissertation

  • Klubben, Ada; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Moratti, Sofia. (2022) "Det handler ikke om å telle, det handler om å prøve å få ut potensialet" En kvalitativ studie om likestilling og mangfold på norske arbeidsplasser i lys av arbeidsgivers aktivitets- og redegjørelsesplikt. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Sivertsen, Ida; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø; Moratti, Sofia. (2019) Et kjønnsblikk på barnehagelærerutdanningen - en studie av hvordan kjønn virker gjennom utdanningsløpet fra rekruttering til faglig opplegg og i barnehagepraksis. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Holm, Ingrid Kvist; Moratti, Sofia; Kristensen, Guro Korsnes. (2021) Nytt sted, nytt språk og nytt system - En kvalitativ studie av hvordan foreldre som selv er født og oppvokst i et annet land opplever å være barnehageforeldre i Norge. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Mikkelsen, Line; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2022) Tenk på en kvinne du ser opp til: En fenomenologisk undersøkelse av norske kvinners rollemodeller. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Bergsaker, Adeleide Charlotte Riise; Moratti, Sofia; Ringrose, Priscilla Marie. (2022) Koronapandemiens skoletaper? En kvalitativ casestudie om hvordan kontaktlærere har erfart kjønnede forskjeller blant 10.klasse-elever under skolestengningen våren 2020. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Hembre, Rikke; Moratti, Sofia; Sletten, Martine. (2024) "Det er vanskelig å skulle lære opp noen til noe, når loven sier noe helt annet" - En kvalitativ undersøkelse av unge voksnes holdninger til voldtekt, samtykke og lovgivning i Norge. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Pedersen, Hanna Elise; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2022) Representasjoner av voldtekt på Stortinget – En dokumentanalyse av de folkevalgtes uttalelser om voldtekt. NTNU
    Master thesis
  • Reynisdottir, Audur Helga; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2024) «Men vi er jo en klinikk for prevensjon, vi er jo ikke en skeiv organisasjon!»: Et studie av seksuell helsehjelp for lesbiske. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Drågen, Ask Kristian Bergseth; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2024) “Neither man nor Woman, Neither and Both”: Exploring Gender/Sex Outside the Binary in Speculative Fiction. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Thorsen, Marte; Moratti, Sofia; Ringrose, Priscilla Marie. (2024) Fra Midtøsten til Øst-Europa: Variasjoner i Norges behandling av flyktninger under to krisetider - En kvalitativ studie basert på erfaringene til ansatte i flyktningtjenesten. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Meek, Margret; Moratti, Sofia; Stubberud, Elisabeth. (2022) “Man gjør det jo bare for oppmerksomhet”. En analyse av unge bifiles opplevelser med fordommer i det norske samfunnet og konsekvensene disse møtene har. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Mackessy, Hannah Thronæs; Moratti, Sofia; Sætermo, Turid Fånes. (2024) "Også skjer det noe snedig, for plutselig er vi en gruppe" En kvalitativ studie av hvordan festivalfrivillighet kan bidra til innvandreres integrering i det norske samfunnet. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis
  • Jacobsen, Isak Nathaniel Løberg; Moratti, Sofia; Engh, Mari Haugaa. (2022) "You are either a man or a woman - you can't do both." A critical analysis of transmasculine negotiations of pregnancy, gender and cisnormativity. Norges teknisk-naturvitenskapelige universitet
    Master thesis

Teaching

Courses

  • KULT3300 - Project management, research and communication
  • HFO1003 - Contemporary cross-disciplinary perspectives on diversity
  • KULT2207 - Gender and Norwegian Culture: Questions of Equality 1
  • KULT2208 - Gender and Norwegian Culture: Questions of Equality 2

The above are the courses I currently lead (2025/26). In addition, I teach (and have taught) several others in the past few years:

  • KULT2202 and KULT2206 - Perspectives on Gender I and II
  • KULT3305 - Theories on Gender, Equality and Diversity
  • KULT3310 - Tools for the Analysis of Gender, Equality and Diversity
  • KULT8874 - Selected Topics in Gender- and Diversity Studies: The Norwegian Research School in Gender Research
  • KULT6502 - Gender and Diversity in Organization and Management
  • KULT2201 - Digitalization and Social Change
  • KULT8880 - Science, Technology and Society
  • KULT8851 - Theories of Science
  • KULT3302 - Qualitative Methods
  • KULT8861 - Talk, Text and Interpretation. Doctoral Course in Qualitative Methodology

I have designed and developed courses at all levels, both in Norway and internationally.

Supervision

You can find the list and full text of the MA theses I have recently supervised in the Norwegian Research Information Repository. 

I am currently supervising two PhD students: Maja Urbanczyk (EpiJustInf project) and Shan Wang (BIAS project).

Training

I am a trained supervisor, lecturer and public speaker. My training includes: UNIPED’s Pedagogy Program for permanent staff at NTNU, the Max Weber Postdoctoral Programme Teaching Certificate (European University Institute, Florence), UNI Smart læring (NTNU), and several courses in academic supervision and science communication.

Recent Outreach

I have been deeply involved in science communication over the past few years, both in Norway and internationally, mainly through three roles: as the NTNU coordinator for the ProGender project, through the Robotics4EU project, and as the coordinator of the GenderHub network. For all three, I organized in-person and online seminars, lectures, and events with numerous invited speakers, listed under "Outreach". 

Outreach

Conference "Academic Freedom and Knowledge-Sharing in Norway and at Home: Displaced Scholars Speak Out" (12.11.2024)

The conference highlighted voices of scholars who fled war and persecution, with keynotes on academic freedom globally and in the Norwegian Constitution. Organisers: Sofia Moratti and Priscilla Ringrose (with Nancy Bazilchuk, Fritt Ord, SAR and SAIH).

2024

  • Lecture
    Kristensen, Guro Korsnes; Kirpichenko, Maria; Moratti, Sofia. (2024) Reproduction and biopolitics: ​Activities and Grant applications​. EcoRepro Network meeting
  • Interview
    Kirpichenko, Maria; Moratti, Sofia. (2024) The Emergence of Feminist Technoscience in the Nordics: Interview with Cecilia Åsberg.
  • Conference lecture
    Kirpichenko, Maria; Moratti, Sofia. (2024) New Materialisms. The GST Colloquia – Concepts, Theories, Paradigms
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2024) The Timeliness of Academic Freedom and Knowledge Sharing in Today's World. Academic Freedom and Knowledge Sharing in Norway and at Home: “Displaced Scholars Speak Out”
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia; Sørensen, Siri Øyslebø. (2024) GenderHub March 8 Gender Research Relay. GenderHub March 8 Gender Research Relay
  • Lecture
    Larsen, Eirinn; Moratti, Sofia; Besnier, Elodie Anne Suzanne. (2024) GenderHub Lecture Series – A haven of gender equality or clever marketing? A history perspective on women’s rights. GenderHub Lecture Series
  • Lecture
    Hartline, france rose; Moratti, Sofia. (2024) GenderHub Lecture Series – Trans in Japan. GenderHub Lecture Series

2023

  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2023) Legal insanity in Norwegian law between care and societal protection. Book Launch: Neurolaw in the Courtroom. Comparative Perspectives on Vulnerable Defendants
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2023) FIELD lecture – Gendered academic career patterns. FIELD lecture

2022

  • Conference lecture
    Utoft, Ea Høg; Moratti, Sofia. (2022) "All the single ladies" as the ideal academic under COVID-19? (Chair role). ProGender Lecture Series
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2022) Contemporary Fairy Tales. Narrating Women Academics through Metaphors. RaAM15 Conference – The Social Impact of Metaphor
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2022) Contemporary Fairy Tales: Narrating Women Academics through Metaphors. University struggles. Intellectual challenges of and strategies for new beginnings
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2022) Women and Gender in Science during COVID-19. Gender Perspectives of the Pandemic: Women in Research and Governance
  • Conference lecture
    Søraa, Roger Andre; Cheng, Yu; Kharas, Mark William; Moratti, Sofia. (2022) Engaging citizen stakeholders on the topic of social robotics in healthcare. ISG 2022: ORAL PAPER PRESENTATION 1: HOUSING AND DAILY LIVING
  • Conference lecture
    Cheng, Yu; Moratti, Sofia; Kharas, Mark William; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2022) Health-tech-care in the year 2050: Workshop on the future of technologized care | ROBOTICS4EU. Robotics4EU Project Workshop
  • Conference lecture
    Søraa, Roger Andre; Cheng, Yu; Kharas, Mark William; Moratti, Sofia. (2022) Responsible Robotics workshop: Robots with and for society (RESP-R) workshop. IEEE Ro-Man 2022
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia; Søraa, Roger Andre; Cheng, Yu; Kharas, Mark William; Pink, Sarah; Ask, Kristine; Bruijning, Nienke. (2022) Workshop | Working and Living with Robots. Robotics4EU Healthcare Workshop
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2022) A critical genealogy of the concept of "academic excellence". BALANSE book seminar: Kjønn i akademia

2021

  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2021) ProGender Lecture Series – Women scientists during the pandemic. ProGender Lecture series
  • Lecture
    Hesjedal, Maria Bårdsen; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Interdisciplinarity in Practice: Experiences from Digital Life Norway (DLN). Post-webinar workshop - Digital Transformation: How to succeed with cross-disciplinary collaboration?
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia; Brynjarsdottir, Eyja; Chryssochoou, Xenia; Tzoulaki, Ioanna; Jorunn, Dahl Norgård; Penner, Angelina. (2021) ProGender Panel Discussion Series – The impact of COVID-19 on women scientists. ProGender Panel Discussion Series
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Contemporary fairy tales. Narrating women academics though metaphors. ProGender Seminar Series – Gendered structures, practices and representations in science and the knowledge society
  • Conference lecture
    Hesjedal, Maria Bårdsen; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Interdisciplinary Collaboration: Assumptions, Expectations and Experiences. Webinar - Digital Transformation: How to succeed with cross-disciplinary collaboration?
  • Interview
    Valkenburg, Govert; Søraa, Roger Andre; Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Stillingsstruktur i tåkeheimen.
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia; Søraa, Roger Andre; Cheng, Yu; Bruijning, Nienke; Azarmanesh, Ilghar. (2021) Workshop | Exploring caring imaginaries: Futures of roboticized healthcare. Robotics4EU Project Workshop
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Garbage in, garbage out? Gender bias in machine learning. FO Kvinnekonferanse 2021
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2021) What values should guide your professional practice? Reflecting on the relationship between professional and personal values in the exercise of your profession. Guest Lecture, Institute for Religion, Philosophy and History, Faculty of Humanities and Pedagogy, University of Agder, Norway
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Women in STEM. The power of images. Bedre innovasjon med kjønnsperspektiver?
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2021) Sociological perspectives on welfare and work. Theoretical and methodological challenges. Guest Lecture, Department of Sociology and Political Science, Faculty of Social and Educational Sciences, NTNU

2020

  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2020) One size does not fit all: the «academic excellence» standard and its implementation. Forskningsrådet – The Research Council of Norway
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2020) "Ulysses" and "Penelope": Gendered patterns of professorial recruitment. GENDIM Workshop on gender equality in academia
  • Interview
    Moratti, Sofia. (2020) Vi bestemmer om glasstaket finnes. Metaforer som beskriver kvinners karriere i akademia er verken inkluderende eller maktkritiske.
  • Interview
    Moratti, Sofia. (2020) Hvis alle kvinnelige stipendiater hadde skrevet hver sin kronikk, så hadde man sett at dette ikke bare er anekdoter.
  • Lecture
    Søraa, Roger Andre; Bruijning, Nienke; Moratti, Sofia. (2020) Movie screening: "The Stepford Wives" (1975). Introduction by Sofia Moratti. IMRO-Lab Cyborg Cinema Series
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2020) Gender bias. BIAS

2019

  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2019) From natural events to fairy tales: narrating women academics through metaphors. NTNU Vitenskapsteoretisk Forum talk series
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2019) The use of the tie-break preference rule for candidates of the underrepresented gender (moderat kjønnsvotering) in a decade of professorial hiring at one NTNU Faculty. Section Leaders Workshop, NTNU Institute of Biology
  • Conference lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2019) Are internationalisation and excellence policies bad for women?. NORDICORE conference: Endelig likestilling i akademia?
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2019) Contemporary fairy tales: narrating women academic through metaphors. 30-year Jubilee of the NTNU Center for Gender Research
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2019) Gender-specific career paths in academia in Norway?. Nordic Law & Gender Conference 2019 –– Faculty of Law, University of Oslo
  • Lecture
    Moratti, Sofia. (2019) A maze of metaphors on women academics. Kjønnsforskerstafett på kvinnedagen – Women's day event, POPUP Feministhus

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