Iris Leikanger

Doctoral Research Fellow - Senter for utvikling og miljø
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Academic interests

Policies and politics of climate change research; collaboration and co-production; climate change adaptation; science policy; science-society interactions; boundary work and cultural cartographies of science; policy discourses and relationships between discourse and policymaking

PhD Research Fellow in Include: Research centre for socially inclusive energy transitions. Researching how Norwegian municipalities collaborate within the municipal organisation and with external actors for climate change mitigation. Interested in collaboration across disciplinary, sectoral and cultural boundaries, and how actors in different sectors experience and manage increasing expectations for cross-boundary collaboration and inclusion.

 

Background

In 2019, Iris finished an MPhil at SUM titled With and for Society? Experiences from CICERO Center for International Climate Research with User Involvement in Science. The thesis examines researchers' experiences with increased demands for user involvement, in relation to an ongoing science policy shift which emphasises the inclusion of non-academic stakeholders in decision making about and processes of scientific research.

From 2013 to 2017, Iris lived in Nepal, primarily working at the intergovernmental research institution International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development (ICIMOD) as Programme Officer for a large interdisciplinary research project on climate change adaptation in the Hindu Kush Himalayan region (specifically China, India, Pakistan and Nepal). Her role included coordinating the synthesis of research results from different disciplines in order to produce policy briefs and other materials intended to communicate the results to relevant "users" in and outside the region, as well as meeting with policymakers and other officials from the four countries in order to communicate research results. It was through this work that Iris became interested in the boundaries and interactions between science and policy in the climate field, as well as the challenges of collaboration across different kinds of boundaries.

Iris has a bachelor's degree in Anthropology and Sociology from Durham University in England, and wrote a bachelor's dissertation in social anthropology based on ethnographic research in Kanungu, Uganda titled "History repeats itself": Agricultural development and modernisation discourse in southwest Uganda. The dissertation discussed how different discourses of modernity and modernisation impact the development of Ugandan agricultural development policy as well as its reception by smallholder farmers in Kanungu.

Awards

  • 2019: The Science Studies Colloquium Qualification Stipend
  • 2018: The Science Studies Colloquium Master's Stipend
  • 2013: The David Brooks Memorial Fund Award for Best Undergraduate Dissertation in Sociocultural Anthropology (Durham University)
  • 2013: Van Mildert College JCR's Contribution to the Wider Community Award (Durham University)
  • 2012: The Durham University Vice Chancellor's Scholarship for Academic Excellence
  • 2012: The UEL International Development Undergraduate Conference's award for Best Paper in the plenary session on Development Theory & Economics

Publications

2019

 

2017

Elfenbenstårnet og fabrikken - Opinion piece, Morgenbladet

 

Strengthening women’s roles as risk and resource managers at the frontline of climate change – Adaptation Solutions Brief, http://lib.icimod.org/record/32584

2017

Women-centric approach to enhance resilience – Book Chapter, http://lib.icimod.org/record/32688

2013

Action for Adaptation: Bringing climate change science to policy makers - a synthesis report of a conference held in Islamabad on 23–25 July 2015 – Conference Report, https://link.springer.com/article/10.1007%2Fs12571-015-0529-7

2013

Action for Mountain Adaptation: Solutions beyond the Boundaries of Science, Policy, and Practice – Working Paper, http://lib.icimod.org/record/32107

  • Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Leikanger, Iris & Westskog, Hege (2023). Institutional context, innovations, and energy transitions: Exploring solar photovoltaics with hydrogen storage at a secondary school in Norway. Energy Research & Social Science. ISSN 2214-6296. 101. doi: 10.1016/j.erss.2023.103147. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bjørkdahl, Kristian; Leikanger, Iris & Tellmann, Silje Maria (2023). Forskningskommunikasjon som kur for forskningens legitimitetskrise? In Bjørkdahl, Kristian; Leikanger, Iris & Tellmann, Silje Maria (Ed.), Formidlende omstendigheter. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215052571. p. 33–49. doi: https:/doi.org/10.18261/9788215052595-2023-02. Full text in Research Archive
  • Bjørkdahl, Kristian; Leikanger, Iris & Tellmann, Silje Maria (2023). Fascinasjonen for komplikasjonen: Om forskning på forskningskommunikasjon. In Bjørkdahl, Kristian; Leikanger, Iris & Tellmann, Silje Maria (Ed.), Formidlende omstendigheter. Universitetsforlaget. ISSN 9788215052571. p. 11–29. doi: https:/doi.org/10.18261/9788215052595-2023-01. Full text in Research Archive
  • Westskog, Hege; Aase, Tor Halfdan & Leikanger, Iris (2021). The Norwegian trekking association: conditions for its continued existence with new tourism patterns. . Scandinavian Journal of Hospitality and Tourism. ISSN 1502-2250. p. 1–19. doi: 10.1080/15022250.2021.1913219. Full text in Research Archive

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  • Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Westskog, Hege & Leikanger, Iris (2023). Hvordan kan beslutningsprosesser i kommuner skape energiomstilling? En casestudie av Vestsiden ungdomsskole, Kongsberg.
  • Westskog, Hege; Wethal, Ulrikke Bryn & Leikanger, Iris (2023). Include og noen av prosjektene.
  • Tortzen, Anne; Smørdal, Ole; Solberg, Nina; Tellefsen, Sølvi; Leikanger, Iris & Sønstegaard, Hanne Marie (2023). Medvirkning og samskaping i klimaarbeidet – fra politiske ambisjoner til praksis.
  • Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Westskog, Hege & Leikanger, Iris (2023). «Fra ildsjeler til institusjonalisering»: Institusjonalisering – hva er det og hvorfor viktig for bærekraftig omstilling? .
  • Leikanger, Iris (2022). Co-producing local sustainability?
  • Leikanger, Iris (2022). Hva betyr medvirkning i kommuners arbeid med omstilling?
  • Leikanger, Iris (2021). Co-producing local sustainability? Norwegian municipalities suspended in webs of climate collaboration.
  • Winther, Tanja; Westskog, Hege & Leikanger, Iris (2021). Arbeid med videreutvikling av maler for Midtveisrapportering.
  • Westskog, Hege & Leikanger, Iris (2021). Can foreign tourists be trusted to clean Norwegian mountain cabins? . [Business/trade/industry journal]. Sciencenorway.no.
  • Westskog, Hege & Leikanger, Iris (2021). Er "den norske måten" å være fotturist på truet? . [Business/trade/industry journal]. Forskning.no.
  • Jakobsen, Siw Ellen; Westskog, Hege & Leikanger, Iris (2021). Er «den norske» måten å være fotturist på truet? [Internet]. forskning.no.
  • Leikanger, Iris (2019). Brukermedvirkning i klimaforskning: svarer målene til midlene?
  • Leikanger, Iris (2019). Elfenbenstårnet og fabrikken. Morgenbladet. ISSN 0805-3847.
  • Standal, Karina; Aasen, Marianne; Christensen, Ingrid; Inderberg, Tor Håkon Jackson; Julsrud, Tom Erik & Matthiasen, Eivind Hjort [Show all 12 contributors for this article] (2023). Forbrukerfleksibilitet: Et kunnskapsgrunnlag for å forstå husholdningers oppfatninger og muligheter. CICERO Senter for Klimaforskning.

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