My background is in Science and Technology Studies, and my overall research interest is about how knowledge is used, and shaped, to inform social and political decision-making processes around complex and uncertain issues.

I wrote my PhD (defended in 2011) about ‘reflexive interdisciplinarity’, looking at how interdisciplinary dynamics emerge and develop, and how they come to shape the science-policy interface for climate change.

Then, using a post-normal science approach, I looked at how (uncertain) marine science was used to guide decision-making in the pressing topic of whether or not to open Northern Norway to oil exploration, and how local voices came to shape the debates in important ways.

In the last few years, I have slightly changed my focus to do ELSA-type research (Ethical, Legal and Social Aspects of emerging technologies) in the context of precision cancer research, as part of my affiliation with the Centre for Cancer Biomarkers. Here, together with PhD candidates, post-docs and junior researchers, we look at the social and political context of cancer research, and question the premise of precision oncology in the context of highly complex and uncertain cancer biology. 

Since mid-2020, I am also leading the AFINO Research School, where I organise teaching/learning activities to critically look at Responsible Research and Innovation, its implementation, its evaluation, and its links to interdisciplinary and transdisciplinary research. Further looking at what responsible research means, I am part of the SeMPER-Arctic project where I help nurture reflexivity within the consortium on conducting caring and responsible narrative research in the Arctic.

With a feeling of an RRI-community. Interview on AFINO blog about the AFINO Autumn Research School 2023 (2023)

The importance of current local representations for shaping futures for the Arctic - Blog entry on the SeMPER-Arctic website. (2021)

Teaching RRI in higher education: for whom? Why? How? Blog entry on the AFINO website. (2021)

Voices from our community on the COVID-19 pandemic. Included in volume 5 of QueerSTS Forum: Queer-feminist issues in pandemic times.(2020)

CCBIO903 PhD course: "Cancer research: Ethical, Social and Economic Aspects". Since 2015, I have been co-organising and teaching in the two-weeks interdisciplinary PhD course for medical students, which is part of the Research School of CCBIO (Centre for Cancer Biomarkers). This course constitutes a space for critically thinking about the broader economic, social and ethical context of cancer research, and it gives PhD candidates the opportunity to discuss this in an open, ‘slow’ and participatory way.

Leader of the WP3 'AFINO Research School': Since 2021, I have been teaching in and organising various activities such as PhD summer/autumn schools and workshops for early career researchers, aimed at reflexively and creatively looking at Responsible Research and Innovation (RRI), its theoretical contours, its implementation, its evaluation, its links to inter- and transdisciplinary research, and the ways RRI can be ‘reinvented’ to support critical research. The underlying objective of the AFINO Research School is to nurture a supportive community of researchers and practitioners around RRI, for them to share reflections, experiences and resources in a context of fast research that is often driven by ideals of speed, performance and excellence.

Master in Sustainability: Since 2021, I have been teaching parts of the SDG310 course “Interdisciplinary Approaches to Sustainable Development” in the Master in Sustainability, and supervising Master students. My teaching in SDG310 focusses on interdisciplinarity and transdisciplinarity as reflexive ways of understanding and navigating complex and uncertain sustainability issues.

2024

• De Grandis, Giovanni; Blanchard, Anne (2024). The Fragility of Responsibility: Norway’s Transformative Agenda for Research, Innovation and Business. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne; Strand, Roger (2024). East in the West: Europeans rethinking RRI with the help of Daoist Philosophy. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne; Bjørnerud, Erik (2024). Navigating tensions around RRI in higher education. (external link)

2023

• Gulseth, Elise; Måren, Inger Elisabeth; Blanchard, Anne (2023). Hvorfor ser naturmangfold så ofte ut til å tape overfor andre interesser i konsekvensutredninger etter Statens Vegvesen sin håndbok V712?. (external link)

2022

• Bremer, Anne; Strand, Roger (2022). Precision Oncology and Cancer Biomarkers. Issues at Stake and Matters of Concern. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne; Strand, Roger (2022). Introduction. (external link)
• Bremer, Scott; Bremer, Anne; Iversen, Lisbeth et al. (2022). Recognising the social functions of climate services in Bergen, Norway. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne; Wik, Elisabeth; Akslen, Lars Andreas (2022). HER2 Revisited: Reflections on the Future of Cancer Biomarker Research. (external link)
• Strand, Roger; Blanchard, Anne (2022). Conclusions: The Biomarkers That Could Be Born. (external link)

2018

• Bremer, Scott; Stiller-Reeve, Mathew Alexander; Bremer, Anne et al. (2018). Co-producing "post-normal" climate knowledge with communities in northeast Bangladesh. (external link)

2017

• Bremer, Scott; Bremer, Anne; Mamnun, Nabir et al. (2017). Narrative as a method for eliciting tacit knowledge of climate variability in Bangladesh. (external link)
• Bremer, Anne; Strand, Roger; Cairns, John Alexander et al. (2017). Cancer Biomarkers: Ethics, Economics and Society. (external link)

2016

• Blanchard, Anne (2016). Mapping ethical and social aspects of cancer biomarkers. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne (2016). Mouse models: some reflections from the lab. (external link)

2015

• Blanchard, Anne; Bremer, Scott (2015). Climate change and agri-cultural knowledge: Bangladesh through a mirror and magnifying glass. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne (2015). Choosing our Food Futures Through Participation? A Critique of ‘Scenario Workshops’ in Lofoten. (external link)
• Bremer, Scott; Blanchard, Anne; Kaiser, Matthias (2015). Challenges to Evaluating Coastal Management in the Twenty-First Century: Lessons from the Lofoten Archipelago. (external link)

2014

• Hauge, Kjellrun Hiis; Blanchard, Anne; Andersen, Gisle et al. (2014). Inadequate risk assessments – A study on worst-case scenarios related to petroleum exploitation in the Lofoten area. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne; Hauge, Kjellrun Hiis; Andersen, Gisle et al. (2014). Harmful routines? Uncertainty in science and conflicting views on routine petroleum operations in Norway. (external link)

2013

• Blanchard, Anne; Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul (2013). Pre-requisites to interdisciplinary research for climate change: lessons from a participatory action research process in Ile-de-France. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne (2013). Oil versus fish’ in northern Norway: perspectives of the market, the law, and the citizen. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne; Bremer, Scott (2013). Reflexively Mapping the Science-Policy Interface for Coastal Zones. (external link)

2012

• Blanchard, Anne (2012). Climate Change and Biodiversity: A Need for 'Reflexive Interdisciplinarity. (external link)
• Blanchard, Anne; Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul (2012). Interdisciplinarité et outils réflexifs : vers une approche globale des trames vertes urbaines. (external link)

2011

• Blanchard, Anne; Strand, Roger; Vanderlinden, Jean-Paul (2011). Reflexive interdisciplinarity: Supporting dialogue on the role of science for climate change. (external link)

2010

• Blanchard, Anne (2010). Dissipating the fuzziness around interdisciplinarity: The case of climate change research. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

• AFINO project (2019-2024): NFR-funded research project 'Ansvarlig forskning og innovasjon i Norge', a centre for developing, networking and reflecting on Responsible research and Innovation in Norway.
• CCBIO project (2014 - 2023): As part of the Centre of Excellence Centre for Cancer Biomarkers (CCBIO), Bergen, related to the ethical, legal and social aspects of cancer biomarkers.
• SeMPER-Arctic project (2020-2023): Funded by The Belmont Forum: 'Sense Making, Place attachment, and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic'
• CoCliServ project (2017-2021): Funded by the ERA4CS (European Research Area for Climate Services): 'Co-development of place-based climate services for action'

Previous projects:

• TRACKS project (2014 - 2017): NFR-funded research project 'TRAnsforming Climate Knowledge with and for Society'
• UncAP project (2011 - 2013): NFR-funded research project 'Uncertainty Assessments Related to Opening New Areas for Petroleum Activity in the Lofoten'
• RAMONS project (2008 - 2011): Research project funded by the Parisian Scientific Consortium for Climate, Environment and Society: 'Research and Animation: Mobilisation of Interdisciplinary Knowledge for Climate Change and Science-Policy Interface'