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Kjetil Rommetveit

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Professor

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E-mail: kjetil.rommetveit@uib.no
Phone number: +47 55583006
Visitor address: Parkveien 9
5007 Bergen
Postal address: P.O. Box 7805

NO-5020 Bergen

Norway

Kjetil Rommetveit

Position

Professor

Affiliation

Research groups

Research

I have a background in philosophy, law and science and technology studies (Vitenskapsteori). My main research interests are in governance and politics of technoscience, and in the overall evolution of the knowledge society and modernity into conditions that we would call non-modern. I have studied interrelations of politics, governance and technoscience in domains ranging from biomedicine (genomics), over security (biometrics, surveillance and privacy) to energy transition and climate policies. Over the last years, my research has increasingly dealt with efforts to bring ever-more aspects of material, social and biological reality into digital mediation and datafication (such as Internet of Things, smart electricity, ‘smart’ technologies and AI).

Outreach

2024

Moderator: The Nils Klim Symposium: "Reflect and Act: Energy Social Science and Impact!" 04.06.2024
Opinion piece: In a post-truth world, scientists need to embrace activism. University World News, 18.05.2024
Talk: Expertise and democracy in the making of digital collective futures. GET-together seminars (Governing Energy Transitions), University of Stavanger, 09.04.24
Presentation of University of Bergen's Master in Sustainability together with student Ingrid Thorsen during the Day Two session Utdanning i en krisetid: De gode eksemplene på veier videre, SDG Conference 2024, 09.02.24
Panelist in Day Zero workshop The researcher as activist, SDG Conference 2024, 07.02.24

2023

Opinion piece about the Ukraine war: Våpenstøtte: En forfeilet debatt. Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 03.05.23 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
Comment: Fosen - et svart hull i konstitusjonen? Agenda magasin, 07.03.23 (in Norwegian)
Panel organizer: Mapping the territories of digital contact tracing, 6th Nordic STS Conference 2023: Disruption and Repair in and beyond STS. University of Oslo, 7-9 June 2023

2022

CoPol reading group: Bruno Latour's political philosophy, SVT, 30.11.2022
Livet i "mulighetsrommet". A reply to responses to Scenarioenes makt in Klassekampen, 04.11.2022 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
Scenarioenes makt. Opinion piece in Klassekampen, 28.10.2022 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
CEDIC talks: Extracting users. Regimes of engagement in Norwegian smart electricity transition. Lecture on the digitalization of the Norwegian energy production. 22.08.22
Panel with Niels van Dijk: Design-based responsible digital innovation? Workshop: Responsible Research and Innovation in/under Urgency, Greece 03.06.22
Pandemifrokost #8. Rommetveit presented the research project CoPol, which is concerned with political, legal and social dimensions connected to digital contact tracing of Covid-19. 20.05.22
Krigens mediatåke Opinion piece in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 7.05.2022 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
Hvorfor blir vi enige om noe som helst (Why do we agree on anything at all)? Article with Roger Strand in Aftenposten Viten - Norwegian daily Aftenpostens's space for research and science, where researchers and experts from all over the country contribute. 15.03.22 (in Norwegian)
Ekspertintervjuet: Hvorfor gjør vi så lite når vi vet så mye? Interview in Energi og klima, 09.03.2022 (in Norwegian)

2021

Talk: Data as evidence for action - the case of Covid-19 digital contact tracing. SVT's 2021 symposium Sick Society, 03.12.2021
Kraftbransjens tillitsproblem. Opinion piece in Norwegian daily Dagens Næringsliv with Siddharth Sareen and Ingrid F. Ballo, 22.10.2021 (in Norwegian)
Bærekraft og tverrfaglighet som universitetspolitiske problem. Article in the research magazine Forskningspolitikk, 1 June 2021 (in Norwegian)
Epistemic Communities: The Role of Scientists for Deep Decarbonization. Podcast in the series ClimatenergyTalks! by Centre for Climate and Energy Transformation (CET).
Varslet misnøye. Commentary on Brexit in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 27.01.2021 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
På grensen til uvirkeligheten. Opinion piece on Brexit in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 16.01.2021 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)

2020

Overgang uten ende. Commentary on Brexit in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 19.12.2020 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
Video: GET-together with Kjetil Rommetveit- 03.12.2020 - Make way for the robots! - University of Stavanger
Prosjekt frykt blir realitet. Commentary on Brexit in Klassekampen, 09.09.2020 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)

Previous communication

Video presentation: "Personvern i biobank og helseregisterforskning, norsk lovgivning og forskningsetikk i lys av lovgivningspraksis og forskningsetikk i andre land". Open meeting in The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, 10.12.2013 (presentation in Norwegian)

Teaching

As a teacher I have led the development of the interdisciplinary master's program on sustainability and interdisciplinarity, which I also coordinate and teach. The program involves teachers from four faculties at the University of Bergen, namely: humanities, natural science, social sciences and law. Our approach to teaching is interdisciplinary, student-centric and problem-oriented. We combine such approaches with more traditional classrooms-based approaches, dealing with the history, institutions and ways of knowing involved in sustainability science and politics.

Publications

Select publications in English

Ballo, I.F., Rommetveit, K., 2023. Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context. Urban Geography 1–22. https://doi.org/10.1080/02723638.2023.2229709

Remme, D., Sareen, S., Haarstad, H., Rommetveit, K., 2023. Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism. poldev. https://doi.org/10.4000/poldev.5406

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., 2022. Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary. Soc Stud Sci 52, 853–877. https://doi.org/10.1177/03063127221119424

Bærøe, K., Gundersen, T., Henden, E., Rommetveit, K., 2022. Can medical algorithms be fair? Three ethical quandaries and one dilemma. BMJ Health Care Inform 29, e100445. https://doi.org/10.1136/bmjhci-2021-100445

Rommetveit, K., 2021. Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience, 1st ed. Routledge, London. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429053061

Rommetveit, K., 2021. Introduction: Post-truth – another fork in modernity's path, in: Post-Truth Imaginations. Routledge, London, pp. 1–30. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429053061-1

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., 2021. Governing the Median Estate, in: Post-Truth Imaginations. Routledge, London, pp. 199–220. https://doi.org/10.4324/9780429053061-10

Rommetveit, K., Ballo, I.F., Sareen, S., 2021. Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition. Science, Technology, & Human Values 016224392110528. https://doi.org/10.1177/01622439211052867

Sareen, S., Saltelli, A., Rommetveit, K., 2020. Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation. Palgrave Commun 6, 20. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-020-0396-5

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., Gunnarsdóttir, K., 2020. Make Way for the Robots! Human- and Machine-Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership. Minerva 58, 47–69. https://doi.org/10.1007/s11024-019-09386-1

Rommetveit, K., Dijk, N.V., Gunnarsdóttir, K., O’Riordan, K., Gutwirth, S., Strand, R., Wynne, B., 2019. Working responsibly across boundaries? Some practical and theoretical lessons, in: Von Schomberg, R., Hankins, J. (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing. https://doi.org/10.4337/9781784718862.00012

Silvast, A., Williams, R. A., Hyysalo, S., Rommetveit, K. and Raab, C. (2018) Who 'uses' smart grids? The evolving nature of user representations in layered infrastructures. Sustainability. Volume 10 (10), 1-21

Strand, R., Saltelli, A., Giampietro. M., Rommetveit, K. & Funtowicz, S. (2018) “New Narratives for Innovation”. The Journal of Cleaner Production, 197(2), 1849-1853.

Van Dijk, N., Tanas, A., Rommetveit, K., Raab., C. (online 10 Apr 2018) Right engineering - The redesign of privacy and personal data protection. International review of law computers & technology. Volume 32 (2-3), 230-256

Rommetveit, K. Tanas, A., van Dijk, N. (2018) Data Protection by Design: Promises and Perils in Crossing the Rubicon Between Law and Engineering. IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Volume 526, 25-37

Rommetveit, K., Wynne, B. (2017) “Technoscience, imagined publics and public imaginations”. Public Understanding of Science, 26(2): 133–147.

Rommetveit, K., Wynne, B. (2017) “Editorial: Imagining public issues in the technosciences”. Special Issue Public Understanding of Science, 26(2), 128-132.

Gunnarsdottír, K. and Rommetveit, K. (2017) “Biometry and the securitization agenda. (Dis)trust in a policy vacuum”. Public Understanding of Science. 26(2): 26(2), 195–211.

Rommetveit, K. Guimares-Pereira, A., Pedrosa, T. (2016) ”Digital Globes: Layers of meaning and technology, redefining geographies and communities”. In: Delgado, A. (Ed. 2016) Technoscience, Citizenship, Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society. New York: Springer.

Rommetveit, K. (2016) “Introducing biometrics in the European Union: practice and imagination”. In: Delgado, A. (Ed. 2016) Technoscience, Citizenship, Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society. New York: Springer.

Van Dijk, N., Gellert, R., Rommetveit, K. (2016) “A Risk to a Right? Beyond Data Protection Risk Assessments”. Computer Law Security Review. 32(2), 286-307.

Rommetveit, K. (2015) "Biometrics". The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees. Online resource available here.

Rommetveit, K., Gunnarsdóttir, K., Jepsen, K. S., Bertilsson, M., Verrax, F. and Strand, R. (2013): “The Technolife Project: An experimental approach to new ethical frameworks for emerging science and technology”, The International Journal of Sustainable Development, 16(1-2), 23–45.

Rommetveit, K. (2013) ”Who’s Autonomous now?” Bioethica Forum, 6 (3), 107-109.

Rommetveit, K. Scully, J. L., Porz, R. (2013) “The Role of Moral Imagination in Patients’s Decision-Making”. J Med Philos. Apr; 38(2),160-72.

Rommetveit, K. ”Immortality”. In Øyen, Olsen & Vaage (Eds. 2012) Sacred Science? On Science and its interrelations with religious worldviews. Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Delgado, A., Rommetveit, K. (2012) “’Our strength is diversity’: imaginaries of nature and community in a Brazilian social movement". International Journal of Sustainable Development 15 (4), 353-373.

Delgado, A., Rommetveit, K., Lemkow, L, Barcelo, M. (2012): “Imagining high-tech bodies: Science fiction and the ethics of enhancement”, Science Communication, 34(2), 200-240.

Rommetveit, K. (2011). “ICTs and responsible innovation: imaginaries of information and community”. In von Schomberg (ed.), “Governance and Ethics of Emerging ICT and Security Technologies”. Publication series Governance and Ethics, DG Research, European Commission.

Rommetveit, K. (2011). “Tackling epistemological naivety: large-scale information systems and the complexities of the common good”, Cambridge Quartely of Healthcare Ethics, 20, 1–12.

Rommetveit, K., “Genetic enhancement, futures tense” (2011) Futures, 76–85.

Rommetveit, K., Funtowicz, S. and Strand, R. (2010): “Knowledge, Democracy and Action in Response to Climate Change” in Roy Bhaskar et. al, "Interdisciplinarity and Global Warming", London and New York: Routledge, 149-165.

Rommetveit, K. (2009): “Bioethics, biopower and the post-genomic challenge”. In: Gunning, J., Holm, S. Kenway, I., "Ethics, Law and Society" Vol VI book series, Ashgate Publishers, 165-186.

Rommetveit, K., Porz, R. (2009) "Tragedy and boundary situations in predictive genetic testing", Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 12(1), 9–16.

Rommetveit, K. (2008). "Towards a hermeneutic of technomedical objects", Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 29:2, 103-120.

Rommetveit, K. (2007): "Biotechnology: Action and choice in second modernity", PhD

Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen.

Helland, T., Rommetveit, K. (2006. "Current dyslexia research seen in the light of I.

Lakatos philosophy of research programmes", in C. B. Haies (ed.), Dyslexia in Children:

New Research. New York: Nova Sciences Publishers Inc.

Select publications in Norwegian

Rommetveit, Kjetil (2021). Digital? Suverenitet? Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 38(01): 111-123

Rommetveit, K. (2015) ”Den Lange Marsjen ved et veiskille”. Vagant 2/2015.

Strand, R., & Rommetveit, K. (2013) “Hva har verden lært av klimavitenskapen?”. 2°C. 02.2013.

Rommetveit, K. (2012) “Anmeldelse av Regjerningens Nasjonale strategi for bioteknologi 2011-2020”. Salongen – Nettstedet for filosofi og idehitsorie. http://salongen.no/

Rommetveit, K. (2011). ”Biometri: forskningsetiske utfordringer” Online resource, Norwegian Committee for research-ethics in science and technology. http://www.etikkom.no/In-English/Committee-for-Research-Ethics-in-Science-and-Technology/

Strand, R. & Rommetveit, K. “Avstand og Avmakt”. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 1/2012.

Strand, R. & Rommetveit, K. (2011) “Trond, Tora og Askeladden – et forskningspolitisk eventyr”. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 3/2011.

Select reports

Rommetveit, K, Dunajcsik, M. Tanas, A. Silvast, A. and Gunnarsdóttir, K. (2017). The CANDID Primer: Including Social Sciences and Humanities scholarship in the making and use of smart ICT technologies (edited by K Gunnarsdóttir). CANDID (H2020-ICT-35- 2016) D5.4, available at http://candid.no/progress

Rommetveit, K. Gunnarsdóttir, K., van Dijk, N., Smits, M. Making robotic autonomy through science and law? EPINET project report. April 2015. Available at goo.gl/7XXfEb

Van Dijk, N, Rommetveit, K. A Risk to a Right? Cross-Cutting Lessons for Data Protection Impact Assessments Summary of findings and policy recommendations. April 2015. Available at: goo.gl/RxDaR9

Rommetveit, K., Strand, R., Fjelland, R., Funtowicz, S. (2013) “What can history teach us about the prospects of a European Research Area?”. European Commission, JRC scientific and policy reports. Available at http://ipsc.jrc.ec.europa.eu/fileadmin/repository/eas/saia/docs/201310_Histera_final_ report.pdf