PhD candidate with the SEATIMES Project at UiB. My interdisciplinary research investigates relations and encounters in  Andenes and Skjervøy, in Arctic Norway. I have also carried out fieldwork in São Miguel, Azores, Portugal.

My MA research on Greenland sharks and basking sharks resulted in the artistic collaboration Cairban: A Contemporary Shark Hunt, which has been showcased in Amsterdam and Bergen. 

Ocean Anthropology (BA/MA), autumn 2024 and autumn 2025

Book review

• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2025). Review of Berta, Annalisa, Sea Mammals: The Past and Present Lives of Our Oceans’ Cornerstone Species. (external link)

Academic lecture

• Ween, Gro Birgit; Durney, Florence; Åman, Sonja Irene et al. (2025). Artisanal Whaling. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2023). The sounded whale: Aural encounters in the Northeast Atlantic. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2023). Transforming relations: The Whale and the whales in Andøya, Norway. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2023). The Humanities 4 the Ocean: Breaking through disciplinary boundaries (Panel Chair). (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2023). The temporal dimensions of contemporary whale tourism in São Miguel, Azores. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth; Kramvig, Britt (2023). Whales as anthropological subject in Arctic Norway - a conversation. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2022). Northern neighbours: Whale-human relations and multispecies commoning in the Anthropocene Arctic. (external link)

Academic article

• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2025). Snorkelling with orcas (killer whales) in Skjervøy, Northern Norway: Ambivalent encounters in a crowded tourism space. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2024). On Sharks Unseen: Oceanic Non-Encounters and Multispecies Ethnography. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth; Ojeda, Tomás (2018). Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities. (external link)

Interview Journal

• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth; Henriksen, Sidsel Marie; Mogseth, Martin Eggen et al. (2024). Technoscience and the limits of life, w/Martin Eggen Mogseth and Fartein Hauan Nilsen. (external link)
• Salem, Tomas; Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2024). Masculinity, far-right ideology & militarised policing in Rio de Janeiro w/Tomas Salem. (external link)

Brochure

• Hale, Sadie E. (2024). EU First Mile Project: ‘By Train and Bus to the North’. (external link)

Documentary

• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2024). “Parlez-vous orque?” (“Do you speak orca?”) Mise au Point, RTS Switzerland, 03 March 2024. Short interview about the tourists that come to see whale watching and the impact of tourism on the whales (from 07:10) . (external link)

Popular scientific lecture

• Hale, Sadie E. (2024). Human-whale relations. . (external link)

Lecture

• Hale, Sadie E. (2024). “An anthropologist looking at people looking at whales.” Pint of Science Norway.. (external link)
• Hale, Sadie E. (2023). “Whaling in Norway.” . (external link)

Museum exhibition

• Hale, Sadie E.; Sentler, Miriam (2023). CAIRBAN: A contemporary shark hunt. (external link)

Website (informational material)

• Hale, Sadie Elizabeth (2022). “Out of place, out of time: Freya the walrus in the Anthropocene.” SEATIMES blog. (external link)

See a complete overview of publications in Cristin.

Public scholarship & other academic writing

• Hale, Sadie. (2022) Blog post: Out of place, out of time: Freya the walrus in the Anthropocene | The SEATIMES Project | UiB
• Hale, Sadie. (2020) “The Greenland shark can outlast nuclear waste. Will it?” Edge Effects Magazine
• Hale, Sadie. (2020) “What does it mean to live a ‘not quite fatal’ existence? Rachel Carson offers us a concept for understanding the poor lives of factory farmed chickens.” Seeing the Woods (Rachel Carson Center)

Public exhibitions

• “CAIRBAN: A contemporary shark hunt.” (2021-2023) Bergen University Museum whale hall & Looiersgracht 60, Amsterdam. In collaboration with visual artist Miriam Sentler. 

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