Mads Solberg
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Ankeret, Ålesund, Larsgårdsveien 2
Om
I use tools from anthropology and cognitive science to make sense of how humans interact with technology in healthcare. I consider this work as a contribution to 'technoanthropology', a complementary project where anthropological insights – on the one hand – can inform the development and use of new technology, and where the technology – on the other – offers fresh perspectives on foundational issues in anthropology.
I am a member of the MARS-group (Management and organization of social and health services).
Other interests include the epistemic and cognitive foundations of simulation-based education in healthcare (https://www.ntnu.no/ihb/prosim), and novel forms of collaboration with municipal healthcare (Universitetskommune Ålesund).
My recent book, A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture: Cognition, Experiment, and the Science of Salmon Lice, was awarded the 2021 Society for Anthropological Sciences Carol R. Ember Book Prize.
Other recent work can be found here: https://app.cristin.no/persons/show.jsf?id=45321
I have an adjunct affiliation at my alma mater, the Department of Social Anthropology at the University of Bergen, through the ASMOG Collaborative Project.
Guiding framework
Naturalistic theories of cultural transmission and the toolkit of the cognitive sciences offer exciting avenues for research on how communities of practice create and use knowledge. In particular, I'm exploring how the framework of distributed cognition can help us understand the orchestration of coupled human-technological systems in healthcare, and the practices of the experimental life sciences.
This framework pushes cognitive science toward a view of cognition as a property of systems that are larger than isolated individuals. This extends the reach of cognition to encompass a wider cognitive ecology, which includes people’s interactions with each other, as well as their relationships with technology, and other material resources for thinking and action.
I consider rigorous anthropological research to be crucial for the development of cognitive science. One way anthropologists can capture the fine micro-details of multimodal interaction in activity systems, comprised of humans and their technology, is through systematic analysis of digital video (cognitive ethnography).
Background
My PhD investigated knowledge-making and technological innovation in marine science, by studying how a group of molecular parasitologists designed and developed a novel experimental system to discover tools for managing salmon lice (a persistent threat to salmon farming in Norway). My alma mater is the University of Bergen.
From March 2017 to March 2018, I worked on improving the conditions for local democracy and citizen-participation through novel enabling technologies, in the five municipalities that will constitute the new Ålesund municipal government from 1.1.2020. This work was done in close collaboration with politicians, administrators, and municipal executives.
In 2012, I was as an advisor at the Data Protection Official for Research, at Norwegian Social Science Data Services (NSD). See: http://www.nsd.uib.no/nsd/english/index.html.
My masters degree from 2011 was on the management and politics of forest conservation through protected areas in post-war Lebanon. I did my first ethnographic fieldwork in Lebanon's Shouf Mountains.
Before entering academia, I trained as a chef's apprentice, and worked in the culinary arts for some years as a professional cook.
Publikasjoner
2023
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Badawy, Abeer;
Solberg, Mads;
Obstfelder, Aud Uhlen;
Alnes, Rigmor Grete Einang.
(2023)
Together, at a distance: experiences with a novel technology for social contact among older people and their relatives in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMC Geriatrics.
volum 23 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Solberg, Mads.
(2023)
Om hvorfor vi fremdeles ikke benytter sosiale roboter i omsorg: innsikter fra antropologiske studier av språkbruk [On why we still do not use social robots in care: insights from anthropological studies on language use].
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
volum 34 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Solberg, Mads.
(2023)
Review of classic. Edwin Hutchins: Cognition in the wild: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 402.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JoMA).
Anmeldelse
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Wiig, Astrid Camilla;
Sellberg, Charlott;
Solberg, Mads.
(2023)
Reviewing simulator-based training and assessment in maritime education: a topic modelling approach for tracing conceptual developments.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JoMA).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2022
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Badawy, Abeer;
Solberg, Mads;
Obstfelder, Aud Uhlen;
Alnes, Rigmor Einang.
(2022)
Improvised use of a digital tool for social interaction in a Norwegian care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory study.
BMC Health Services Research.
volum 22 (136).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Badawy, Abeer;
Solberg, Mads;
Obstfelder, Aud Uhlen;
Alnes, Rigmor Einang.
(2022)
Normalization of technology for social contact in a Norwegian care facility during COVID-19.
BMC Health Services Research.
volum 22 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Blindheim, Kari;
Solberg, Mads;
Hameed, Ibrahim A.;
Alnes, Rigmor Einang.
(2022)
Promoting activity in long-term care facilities with the social robot Pepper: a pilot study.
Informatics for Health and Social Care.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Shah, Syed Hammad Hussain;
Hameed, Ibrahim A.;
Karlsen, Anniken Th;
Solberg, Mads.
(2022)
Towards a Social VR-based Exergame for Elderly Users: An Exploratory Study of Acceptance, Experiences and Design Principles.
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Design and Development, 14th International Conference, VAMR 2022.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Shah, Syed Hammad Hussain;
Karlsen, Anniken Th;
Solberg, Mads;
Hameed, Ibrahim A..
(2022)
A social VR-based collaborative exergame for rehabilitation: codesign, development and user study.
Virtual Reality.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2021
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Aroyo, Alexander;
De Bruyne, Jan;
Dheu, Orian;
Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard;
Gudkov, Aleksei;
Hoch, Holly;
Jones, Steve;
Lutz, Christoph;
Sætra, Henrik Skaug;
Solberg, Mads;
Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia.
(2021)
Overtrusting Robots: Setting a Research Agenda to Mitigate Overtrust in Automation.
Paladyn - Journal of Behavioral Robotics.
volum 12 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
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Shah, Syed Hammad Hussain;
Longva, Bjørnar;
Abdelfattah Abdelhameed, Ibrahim;
Solberg, Mads;
Karlsen, Anniken Th.
(2021)
Health Data Management for Nursing Practice: An Intelligent, Holographic Mixed-Reality System.
HCI International 2021 - Posters.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
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Solberg, Mads.
(2021)
A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture: Cognition, Experiment, and the Science of Salmon Lice.
Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. ISBN 9783030725105. Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS).
Vitenskapelig monografi
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Solberg, Mads.
(2021)
Avstandsoppfølging som velferdsteknologi.
2021. ISBN 978-82-8340-116-5. Omsorgsbiblioteket (25).
Rapport
2017
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Solberg, Mads;
Knudsen, Ståle.
(2017)
Experiment, Cognition, and the Science of Salmon Lice: A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture in the Making.
2017. ISBN 978-82-308-3932-4.
Doktorgradsavhandling
2015
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Solberg, Mads.
(2015)
Book Review - Hallam Stevens' Life Out of Seqence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics (2013).
Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology.
Anmeldelse
2014
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Solberg, Mads.
(2014)
Book Review - Terrence W. Deacon's Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter (2013).
Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology.
Anmeldelse
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Solberg, Mads.
(2014)
Patronage, contextual flexibility and organisational innovation in Lebanese protected areas management.
Conservation and Society.
volum 12 (3).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
2011
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Solberg, Mads;
Knudsen, Ståle.
(2011)
Managing nature, people and development. Patronage, Confessionalism and Market-Based Conservation in a Lebanese Protected Area.
2011.
Mastergradsoppgave
Tidsskriftspublikasjoner
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Badawy, Abeer;
Solberg, Mads;
Obstfelder, Aud Uhlen;
Alnes, Rigmor Grete Einang.
(2023)
Together, at a distance: experiences with a novel technology for social contact among older people and their relatives in Norway during the COVID-19 pandemic.
BMC Geriatrics.
volum 23 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Solberg, Mads.
(2023)
Om hvorfor vi fremdeles ikke benytter sosiale roboter i omsorg: innsikter fra antropologiske studier av språkbruk [On why we still do not use social robots in care: insights from anthropological studies on language use].
Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift.
volum 34 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Solberg, Mads.
(2023)
Review of classic. Edwin Hutchins: Cognition in the wild: MIT Press, Cambridge, 1995, pp. 402.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JoMA).
Anmeldelse
-
Wiig, Astrid Camilla;
Sellberg, Charlott;
Solberg, Mads.
(2023)
Reviewing simulator-based training and assessment in maritime education: a topic modelling approach for tracing conceptual developments.
WMU Journal of Maritime Affairs (JoMA).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Badawy, Abeer;
Solberg, Mads;
Obstfelder, Aud Uhlen;
Alnes, Rigmor Einang.
(2022)
Improvised use of a digital tool for social interaction in a Norwegian care facility during the COVID-19 pandemic: an exploratory study.
BMC Health Services Research.
volum 22 (136).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Badawy, Abeer;
Solberg, Mads;
Obstfelder, Aud Uhlen;
Alnes, Rigmor Einang.
(2022)
Normalization of technology for social contact in a Norwegian care facility during COVID-19.
BMC Health Services Research.
volum 22 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Blindheim, Kari;
Solberg, Mads;
Hameed, Ibrahim A.;
Alnes, Rigmor Einang.
(2022)
Promoting activity in long-term care facilities with the social robot Pepper: a pilot study.
Informatics for Health and Social Care.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Shah, Syed Hammad Hussain;
Karlsen, Anniken Th;
Solberg, Mads;
Hameed, Ibrahim A..
(2022)
A social VR-based collaborative exergame for rehabilitation: codesign, development and user study.
Virtual Reality.
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Aroyo, Alexander;
De Bruyne, Jan;
Dheu, Orian;
Fosch-Villaronga, Eduard;
Gudkov, Aleksei;
Hoch, Holly;
Jones, Steve;
Lutz, Christoph;
Sætra, Henrik Skaug;
Solberg, Mads;
Tamò-Larrieux, Aurelia.
(2021)
Overtrusting Robots: Setting a Research Agenda to Mitigate Overtrust in Automation.
Paladyn - Journal of Behavioral Robotics.
volum 12 (1).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
-
Solberg, Mads.
(2015)
Book Review - Hallam Stevens' Life Out of Seqence: A Data-Driven History of Bioinformatics (2013).
Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology.
Anmeldelse
-
Solberg, Mads.
(2014)
Book Review - Terrence W. Deacon's Incomplete Nature: How Mind Emerged From Matter (2013).
Somatosphere: Science, Medicine and Anthropology.
Anmeldelse
-
Solberg, Mads.
(2014)
Patronage, contextual flexibility and organisational innovation in Lebanese protected areas management.
Conservation and Society.
volum 12 (3).
Vitenskapelig artikkel
Bøker
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Solberg, Mads.
(2021)
A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture: Cognition, Experiment, and the Science of Salmon Lice.
Palgrave Macmillan. 2021. ISBN 9783030725105. Culture, Mind, and Society (CMAS).
Vitenskapelig monografi
Del av bok/rapport
-
Shah, Syed Hammad Hussain;
Hameed, Ibrahim A.;
Karlsen, Anniken Th;
Solberg, Mads.
(2022)
Towards a Social VR-based Exergame for Elderly Users: An Exploratory Study of Acceptance, Experiences and Design Principles.
Virtual, Augmented and Mixed Reality: Design and Development, 14th International Conference, VAMR 2022.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
-
Shah, Syed Hammad Hussain;
Longva, Bjørnar;
Abdelfattah Abdelhameed, Ibrahim;
Solberg, Mads;
Karlsen, Anniken Th.
(2021)
Health Data Management for Nursing Practice: An Intelligent, Holographic Mixed-Reality System.
HCI International 2021 - Posters.
Vitenskapelig Kapittel/Artikkel/Konferanseartikkel
Rapport
-
Solberg, Mads.
(2021)
Avstandsoppfølging som velferdsteknologi.
2021. ISBN 978-82-8340-116-5. Omsorgsbiblioteket (25).
Rapport
-
Solberg, Mads;
Knudsen, Ståle.
(2017)
Experiment, Cognition, and the Science of Salmon Lice: A Cognitive Ethnography of Knowledge and Material Culture in the Making.
2017. ISBN 978-82-308-3932-4.
Doktorgradsavhandling
-
Solberg, Mads;
Knudsen, Ståle.
(2011)
Managing nature, people and development. Patronage, Confessionalism and Market-Based Conservation in a Lebanese Protected Area.
2011.
Mastergradsoppgave
Undervisning
Emner
Formidling
2023
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Vitenskapelig foredragLervik, Wenche; Berg, Helen; Solberg, Mads; Wiig, Astrid Camilla. (2023) Facilitator's assumptions of feedback in simulation-based training for nursing students. SimPro2023 . University of Gothenberg, Department of Applied IT; Gøteborg. 2023-04-26 - 2023-04-26.
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Faglig foredragObstfelder, Aud Uhlen; Stokke, Randi; Solberg, Mads; Solbjørg, Ole Kristen; Tragethon, Ane Kathrine; Søraa, Roger Andre. (2023) Teknologiforståelse i helseprofesjonsutdanninger: Et pedagogisk innovasjonsarbeid i Digit,. Læringsfestivalen . NTNU; Trondheim. 2023-05-08 - 2023-05-09.
2022
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Vitenskapelig foredragGiskeødegård, Marte Fanneløb; Solberg, Mads. (2022) On the use of simulation in bachelor-level professional education in Scandinavia – the PROSIM-survey. Analyzing and advancing simulations for professional learning (SimPro2022) . Universitetet i Gøteborg; digital. 2022-04-07 - 2022-04-07.
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Vitenskapelig foredragGiskeødegård, Marte Fanneløb; Solberg, Mads. (2022) PROSIM deliveries - on the use of simulation in bachelor-level education in Scandinavia. Simulation-based learning across Professions (SIMLEARN 2022) . PROSIM/USN; Åsgårdstrand. 2022-05-11 - 2022-05-11.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2022) Towards better data-use in municipal healthcare - preliminary notes from a pilot project. Research seminar: information systems in healthcare . Health Services Research Group in Ålesund; Ålesund. 2022-10-11.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads; Giskeødegård, Marte Fanneløb. (2022) Læring av hverandre - bruk av simulering som undervisningsmetode i tre ulike profesjoner. Fjordkonferansen 2022 . Fjordkonferansen; Loen. 2022-06-16 - 2022-06-17.
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Vitenskapelig foredragWiig, Astrid Camilla; Sellberg, Charlott; Solberg, Mads. (2022) Tracing conceptual discussions of simulation-based learning in Maritime Higher Education. American Educational Research Association AERA2022 . American Educational Research Association; San Diego. 2022-04-21 - 2022-04-26.
2020
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Vitenskapelig foredragKirchhoff, Ralf; Solberg, Mads. (2020) A framework for policy research on governmental trust and AAL-technology: a proposal. ISG's 12th World Conference of Gerontechnology . The International Society for Gerontechnology; Trondheim. 2020-10-06 - 2020-10-09.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2020) Symposia 12 - Conceptualizing trust and AAL-technology: Steps towards a comparative framework. ISG 2020 . International Society of Gerontechnology; Trondheim. 2020-10-09 - 2020-10-09.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2020) WoZ, trust, and situated interactional maintenance in social robotics. Overtrusting Robots - Half-day Workshop, 29th IEEE International Conference on Robot & Human Interactive Communication (Ro-Man 2020) . IEEE Ro-Man 2020; Virtual (Zoom). 2020-09-04 - 2020-09-04.
2019
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Faglig foredragForberg, Elisabeth; Solberg, Mads. (2019) Kvalitet og relevans i praksisstudier - Tverrprofesjonell in situ simulering med studenter og ansatte. SimMidt 2019 . SimMidt; Levanger. 2019-02-12.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2019) Debriefing as epistemic practice: conversational remembering and distributed metacognition in healthcare simulation. Engaging Skillful Cognitive Systems in Healthcare: Simulation Training and E-consultations . Advanced Cognitive Ethnography Lab (ACE), SDU; Odense. 2019-09-19 - 2019-09-19.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads; Kirchhoff, Ralf. (2019) Robotteknologi og helse – en retrospektiv innholdsanalyse av norske avisartikler fra 2000 til 2018. Helsetjenesteforskningskonferansen 2019 . Nasjonalt nettverk for helsetjenesteforskning; Trondheim. 2019-03-12 - 2019-03-13.
2018
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IntervjuSolberg, Mads. (2018) – Må akseptere at ikke alt fungerer på Helsehuset. Åndalsnes Avis [Avis]. 2018-11-15.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2018) Helseinnovasjon. Innovasjonsfestivalen . Innovasjonsfestivalen (Nordveggen AS); Åndalsnes. 2018-11-15 - 2018-11-15.
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IntervjuSolberg, Mads. (2018) Helseinnovasjon tema på Innovasjonsfestivalen – Må jobbe sammen for nye løsninger. Romsdals Budstikke [Avis]. 2018-11-16.
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IntervjuSolberg, Mads. (2018) Roboter inn i omsorgstjenesten - Pepper krydrer hverdagen. Roboten Pepper er lett å like, men er det robot-omsorg vi virkelig ønsker oss i framtida?. Sunnmørsposten [Avis]. 2018-09-28.
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2018) Varme hender eller kaldt stål - skal robotene pleie oss i fremtiden?. NTNU Kveld . NTNU; Ålesund. 2018-09-27 - 2019-09-27.
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2018) Varme hender eller kaldt stål - skal robotene pleie oss i fremtiden?. Intervju . NRK Møre og Romsdal; Ålesund. 2018-09-27 - 2019-09-27.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2018) Åpen publisering og røvertidsskrifter - et par ting alle bør vite. Open Access-uka ved Universitetsbiblioteket NTNU. . Universitetsbiblioteket ved NTNU; Ålesund. 2018-10-22.
2017
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads; Bender, Andrea; Beller, Sieghard; Astuti, Rita; le Guen, Olivier; Overmann, Karenleigh; Rácz, Peter; Jordan, Fiona. (2017) Anthropological Contributions to Cognitive Science. CogSci 2017 . Cognitive Science Society; London. 2017-07-27.
2016
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2016) A Cognitive Ethnography of Material Culture and Distributed Cognition in an Experimental System: The Case of Licelab. Current Directions in Research on Cognition and Culture . Society for Anthropological Sciences; Vancouver. 2016-03-31.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2016) Epistemic Actions, Material Culture and Distributed Cognition Among Marine Molecular Biologists. EASA 2016 . European Association for Social Anthropologists; Milan. 2016-07-23.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2016) Innovasjon, kognisjon og materiell kultur i laboratoriet. Fagdrypp . Møreforskning; Ålesund. 2016-01-29.
2015
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2015) Innovation, cognition and material culture in the lab: some perspectives from cognitive anthropology. Molecular and Computational Biology Research School 2015 . University of Bergen; Glesvær. 2015-10-20 - 2015-10-20.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2015) Innovation, cognition and material culture in the lab: some perspectives from the cognitive anthropology of science. Molecular and Computational Biology Research School 2015 . University of Bergen; Glesvær. 2015-10-20 - 2015-10-20.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2015) On the Co-Evolution of Aquaculture, Scientific Knowledge and Salmon Lice. American Anthropological Association 114th Annual Meeting, Denver, Colorado . American Anthropological Association; Denver. 2015-11-19 - 2015-11-22.
2014
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2014) Thinking about scientific knowledge: perspectives from cognitive anthropology. Molecular and Computational Biology Research School 2014 . Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen; Glesvær. 2014-09-09 - 2014-09-09.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2014) Towards a cognitive ethnography of marine science: the case of sea lice research. Lab meeting D-COG HCI-Lab, Dept. of cognitive science, UCSD . D-COG HCI-Lab, Dept. of cognitive science, UCSD; University of California, San Diego. 2014-02-28.
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2014) Towards a cognitive ethnography of marine science: the case of sea lice research. Lab meeting for Morana Alac's research group, Communication and Science Studies, University of California - San Diego, 10.03.14. Lab meeting . Morana Alac; UCSD. 2014-03-10.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads; Dalvin, Sussie Trine. (2014) Public perceptions of salmon farming and salmon lice in Norway, the U.K. and Canada. Sealice 2014 ; Maine. 2014-08-31 - 2014-09-05.
2013
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Populærvitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2013) Thinking about scientific knowledge: perspectives from cognitive anthropology. Molecular and Computational Biology Research School 2013 . Department of Molecular Biology, University of Bergen; Glesvær. 2013-09-03 - 2013-09-03.
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Vitenskapelig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2013) Towards a cognitive ethnography of marine science: multimodal interaction in a high-tech research environment. ASFPG Postnormal science workshop 2013 . ASFPG; Hamburg. 2013-09-18 - 2013-09-20.
2011
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Faglig foredragSolberg, Mads. (2011) Skinnholisme og menneskelig mangfold: refleksjoner omkring det antropologiske prosjekt fra en student. Norsk Antropologisk Forenings Årskonferanse 2011 . Norsk Antropologisk Forening; Oslo. 2011-05-06 - 2011-05-08.