Research

Research interests

• Sustainable digitalization and digital sustainability; green-IT; technologies for monitoring energy consumption
• Entrepreneurship, startup and innovation in conflict areas
• Technologies in Welfare; case handling systems; work practice of street-level bureaucrats
• E-voting technologies; election practises
• ICT in the healthcare; Electronic Medical/Patient Records (EM/PRs); Electronic Health Records (EHRs); healthcare practices
• Ethnography; action research; grounded theory; interventionist research; reflexive methodologies; autobiographies and confessionals
• Science and Technology Studies (STS) and Actor Network Theory (ANT)
• Computer Support Cooperative Work (CSCW); Information Systems (IS); Organization studies; organizational communication; Human-Computer Interaction (HCI); practice-based approaches; Participatory Design (PD)

Curriculum

Throughout my career, I have studied the design, implementation and use of various technologies as well as collaborative practices across several sectors and countries. This includes, the design and implementation of feedback technologies in higher education, the use of case handling systems in the public sector (an employment agency) in Denmark, the role that technology plays in promoting socio-political change in Palestine, the design and implementation of e-voting technologies in Denmark, the development and use of Electronic Health Records (EHRs) in Canada (non-profit clinic in Vancouver) and in Norway (Rikshospitalet, Oslo), and finally, the implementation of broadband in remote and rural areas in British Columbia and its impact on first nation culture (Canada). Throughout these projects, I have maintained a commitment to carrying out empirical fieldwork in order to develop conceptual frameworks useful for understanding collaborative practices, and for designing technologies to support these practices.

Education

2010: PhD in Communication, Simon Fraser University (SFU), Vancouver, BC, Canada. Supervisors: Dr. Ellen Balka, Dr. Gary McCarron and Dr. Richard Smith (SFU)

2004: M.Sc. (cand. scient) in Informatics (Information Systems), Department of Informatics, University of Oslo, Oslo, Norway.

2001: B.Sc. (cand. mag) in Computer Science, Department of Computer and Information Science, Norwegian University of Technology and Science (NTNU), Trondheim, Norway.