PhD candidate with the SEATIMES Project. My interdisciplinary research investigates human-whale relations and tourism 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 - course convenor

Conference lecture

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

Journal review

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

Academic article

• Jeremie Brugidou; Fabien Clouette; Sadie E. Hale (2025). Cynégétiques de l’immersion : l’ambivalence du contact avec les cétacés dans le cadre de l’exploration touristique et scientifique. (external link)
• Sadie Elizabeth Hale; Tomás Ojeda (2018). Acceptable femininity? Gay male misogyny and the policing of queer femininities. (external link)
• Sadie Elizabeth Hale (2025). Snorkelling with orcas (killer whales) in Skjervøy, Northern Norway: Ambivalent encounters in a crowded tourism space. (external link)
• Sadie Elizabeth Hale (2024). On Sharks Unseen: Oceanic Non-Encounters and Multispecies Ethnography. (external link)

Lecture

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

Exhibition production

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

Podcast

• Tom Bratrud; Sadie E. Hale (2025). “Rurality 2.0” How City Migrants are Reshaping Norway’s Rural Regions. (external link)

Media interview

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

SEATIMES Project