Tanja Winther

Professor and Head of research centre Include
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Visiting address Sandakerveien 130 Bygg 2 0484 OSLO
Postal address Postboks 1116 Blindern 0317 OSLO

Academic Interests

  • Inclusive and just energy transition
  • Electrification, socio-technical and cultural aspects of energy (Author of The impact of electricity:Development, Desires and Dilemmas, Berghahn Books, 2008)
  • Sustainable energy consumption
  • Gender relations
  • Fieldwork: Tanzania (Zanzibar), Kenya, India, Malawi, Norway

Current Projects

Former Projects

Current positions

  • Employed by the University of Oslo (2006-)

Courses taught

I currently teach in the following courses:

Previously course leader/lecturer:

Background and former positions of trust

  

  • 2017-2022 Board member UiO:Energy 
  • 2016-17 Deputy member of Board UiO:Energy 
  • 2014-17 Board member EnPe, Norad/NTNU
  • 2012-15 Member/Deputy Chair, UiO North-South Committee, University of Oslo
  • 2009-13 Board Member, Minor Foundation for Major Challenges, Oslo
  • 2007-08 Board Member, The Steiner School in Bærum, Norway
  • 2006-08 Member/Secretary, the Reference Group for the Trust Fund for Environmentally and Socially Sustainable Development (TFESSD), the World Bank.
  • 2005 Dr. polit., Social Anthropology, University of Oslo
  • 1995 Business Administration, BI, Oslo
  • 1991 Master in Power Engineering, University of Trondheim (NTNU)

 

Tags: Energy, Electricity, Just transition, Gender, Sustainable development, Africa, Asia, Norway, Consumption and Wellbeing, India, Global South, Europe

Publications

  • Winther, Tanja & Sundet, Øyvind (2023). Flexibility for whom? Householder and stakeholder perspectives on justice regarding the introduction of dynamic grid tariffs in Norway. Energy Efficiency. ISSN 1570-646X. 16. doi: 10.1007/s12053-023-10153-1. Full text in Research Archive
  • Campbell, Kirsten & Winther, Tanja (2023). New energy transitions, old problems: the challenge of achieving a just electrification with a gendered face, Handbook of International Development and the Environment. Edward Elgar Publishing. ISSN 9781800883772. p. 231–249. doi: https:/doi.org/10.4337/9781800883789.00024.
  • Winther, Tanja (2021). Searching for variation and complexity. In Podjed, Dan; Gorup, Meta; Borecky, Pavel & Guerrón Montero, Carla (Ed.), Why the world needs anthropologists. Routledge. ISSN 9781350147133. p. 85–98.
  • Jackson Inderberg, Tor Håkon; Sæle, Hanne; Westskog, Hege & Winther, Tanja (2020). The dynamics of solar prosuming: Exploring interconnections between actor groups in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 70, p. 1–11. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2020.101816. Full text in Research Archive
  • Winther, Tanja; Ulsrud, Kirsten; Matinga, Margaret; Govindan, Mini; Gill, Bigsna & Saini, Anjali [Show all 9 contributors for this article] (2020). In the light of what we cannot see: Exploring the interconnections between gender and electricity access. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 60(101334). doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2019.101334. Full text in Research Archive
  • Matinga, Margaret N.; Gill, Bigsna & Winther, Tanja (2019). Rice Cookers, Social Media, and Unruly Women: Disentangling Electricity's Gendered Implications in Rural Nepal . Frontiers in Energy Research. ISSN 2296-598X. 6(140). doi: 10.3389/fenrg.2018.00140. Full text in Research Archive
  • Standal, Karina; Winther, Tanja & Danielsen, Katrine (2018). Energy Politics and Gender. In Hancock, Kathleen & Allison, Juliann (Ed.), The Oxford Handbook of Energy Politics. Oxford University Press. ISSN 9780190861360. doi: 10.1093/oxfordhb/9780190861360.013.6. Full text in Research Archive
  • Westskog, Hege; Winther, Tanja & Aasen, Marianne (2018). The creation of an ecovillage: Handling identities in a Norwegian sustainable valley. Sustainability. ISSN 2071-1050. 10(6). doi: 10.3390/su10062074. Full text in Research Archive
  • Winther, Tanja; Westskog, Hege & Sæle, Hanne (2018). Like having an electric car on the roof: Domesticating PV solar panels in Norway. Energy for Sustainable Development. ISSN 0973-0826. 47, p. 84–93. doi: 10.1016/j.esd.2018.09.006. Full text in Research Archive
  • Winther, Tanja & Bell, Sandra (2018). Domesticating In Home Displays in selected British and Norwegian households. Science & Technology Studies. ISSN 2243-4690. 31(2), p. 19–38. doi: 10.23987/sts.56791. Full text in Research Archive
  • Winther, Tanja; Ulsrud, Kirsten & Saini, Anjali (2018). Solar powered electricity access: Implications for women’s empowerment in rural Kenya. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 44, p. 61–74. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.017. Full text in Research Archive
  • Ulsrud, Kirsten; Rohracher, Harald; Winther, Tanja; Muchunku, Charles & Palit, Debajit (2018). Pathways to electricity for all: What makes village-scale solar power successful? Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 44, p. 32–40. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2018.04.027. Full text in Research Archive

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