I am a social scientist at the CEARC research centre of Université Paris-Saclay, UVSQ, France. I work in the CLIMArcTIC project “From regional to global impacts of climate change in the Arctic: an interdisciplinary perspective”.

Before, I have been a senior researcher employed by the Copernicus Institute of Sustainable Development, Utrecht University (UU), and based at the Norwegian Semper Arctic project team at the Centre for the Study of the Sciences and the Humanities at University of Bergen (UiB).

I have a mixed background with a training in science and technology (Narvik University College) and in educational research (PhD from Western Norway University of Applied Sciences, HVL). My PhD research (monograph) focused on institutional culture in higher education institutions and how educators operate in the field of tension between government regulation and institutional freedom.

From 2021, I have been associate professor at HVL until Autumn 2023, where I have developed, coordinated and taught several MSc courses and have been supervising MSc students. At present I am a guest researcher at UiB.

My present work at UVSQ/UiB is in the field of environmental studies / environmental humanities.

ORCiD

 

R. Roos (2024) Improving how we do research with indigenous and local communities. Guest blog at Integration and Implementation Insights A community blog and repository of resources for improving research impact on complex real-world problems

Making knowledge inclusive? Improving how we do research with Indigenous and local communities, News item Utrecht University, 25 March 2024.

 

 

 

Before I started in academic research, I have worked for eight years as a teacher at various secondary schools in Norway, teaching the subjects mathematics, physics, chemistry, and biology at the pre-university level. From 2015 to 2023, I worked as a teacher educator at Western Norway University of Applied Sciences (HVL), first as an assistant professor, and later as associate professor. At HVL I developed, coordinated, and taught 3 Master courses in respectively “Theory of Science and Methods” [15 ECTS], “Literature Review and Action Research” [15 ECTS], and, “Seminar on the MSc Project” [45 ECTS], and I have supervised several master students to completion.

Academic article

• Roos, Roxana; Sluijs, Jeroen P van der (2025). Bridging different ways of knowing in climate change adaptation requires solution-oriented cross-cultural dialogue. (external link)
• Roos, Roxana (2024). “Maybe you need to do something about it”: challenges in global environmental change research with and within local communities. (external link)
• Roos, Roxana (2024). Researchers’ perceptions of their collaboration with indigenous and local people in environmental change research. (external link)
• Roos, Roxana (2024). The role of frames in shaping the representation of local knowledge and concerns in scientific texts. (external link)
• Singh, Oksana (2017). Danningsperspektiver på utforming av lærersubjektet i læreverket i matematikk. (external link)
• Singh, Oksana; Engelsen, Knut Steinar; Espeland, Magne (2016). Improvisasjon i lærerutdanning. (external link)

Doctoral dissertation

• Singh, Oksana (2021). Med fokus på lærerutdanneres frihet - En diskursanalytisk studie om hvordan frihet framtrer i matematikklærerutdanneres utforming av faget matematikk for trinn 5-10 i kontekst av styringsdokumenter. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

ORCiD

Roos, R. (2024) The role of frames in shaping the representation of local knowledge and concerns in scientific texts. Frontiers in Climate, 6, fclim.2024.1358503 

Roos, R. (2024) “Maybe you need to do something about it”: challenges in global environmental change research with and within local communities. Humanit Soc Sci Commun 11, 429. https://doi.org/10.1057/s41599-024-02942-5

Roos, R. "We need to reflect on this". Challenges researchers face in projects, including local and indigenous people. Oral presentation (31 May 2024) in session  5.12 Cross/Trans-Disciplinary Collaborations and Advancing Community, Equity, and Inclusion in Arctic Research,  Arctic Congress 2024, 29 may - 3 June 2024, Bodø, Norway.

Karlsdottir, A., Huctin, J-M and Roos, R. (2024) Working with and for Arctic communities: practical lessons from the fieldwork in Greenland. Oral presentation (30 May 2024) in session 4.1.3. Indiginizing community-based monitoring - pathways to co-learning, co-generating knowledge, empowerment and action, Arctic Congress 2024, 29 may - 3 June 2024, Bodø, Norway.

Singh, O. (2023) The making of representations of concerns and knowledge of local and indigenous people. Presentation at AFINO workshop “Inter- and transdisciplinary challenges in practice”, 1 Aug 2023, Metochi Study Centre, Lesvos, Greece. 

Singh, O. (2023) Transparens i foucauldiansk diskursanalyse i utdanningsforskning. (Transparency in Foucauldian discourse analysis in educational research, in Norwegian with English abstract) Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift 107 (1): 93–104. doi:10.18261/npt.107.1.9

Singh, O. (2021) Hva kan internasjonal Foucault-basert forskning på læreplaner og praksis tilby matematikkutdanning og undervisning i norsk kontekst? Transkripsjon av prøveforelesning knytet til disputas, 12.11.2021 HVL, Bergen, Norge, Ph.D-program av danning og didaktiske praksiser.

Singh, O. (2021). Med fokus på lærerutdanneres frihet - En diskursanalytisk studie om hvordan frihet framtrer i matematikklærerutdanneres utforming av faget matematikk for trinn 5 – 10 i kontekst av styringsdokumenter. PhD thesis. (Monograph, in Norwegian), Bodoni AS / Høgskulen på Vestlandet. Bergen, Norway. ISBN 978-82-93677-66-6.

Singh, O. (2017). Danningsperspektiver på utforming av lærersubjektet i læreverket i matematikk. Norsk pedagogisk tidsskrift, 101(03), 266-277.

Singh, O., Engelsen, K.S., Espeland, M. (2016). Improvisasjon i lærerutdanning, Tangenten 4/2016: 40-48.

Singh, O.F. (2016). Måling i barnehagen. Tangenten 3/2016: 8-14.

Singh, O. (2014), I øyeblikket: En studie om IKT sin medierende rolle i improvisatoriske samhandlinger mellom lærerutdanner og studenter i faget matematikkdidaktikk. MSc thesis. Høgskolen Stord/Haugesund. Stord.

CLIMArcTIC “From regional to global impacts of climate change in the Arctic: an interdisciplinary perspective”. (Agence Nationale de la Recherche, ANR, France)

Guest editing Research Topic Frontiers in Climate: Decolonial Perspectives on Arctic Resilience

SeMPER Arctic Sense Making, Place attachement, and Extended networks as sources of Resilience in the Arctic (Belmont Forum Arctic 2019 Science for Sustainability)