Three-year PhD Research Fellowship associated with the DataMines project (Governing data infrastructure and clouds in digitally mediated natural resource extraction and exploitation) at the TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo. The fellowship may also be extended to include teaching activities.
The project blends approaches from Science & Technology Studies (STS), critical data studies and political ecology to develop ethnographic methods that track the flow of genetic resources across land, oceans, jurisdictions, and global databases. It is a collaboration between the University of Oslo, Fridtjof Nansens Institute and University College London, and involves scholars from Europe and Brazil. The project examines how genetic data are digitalised and stored, the challenges this poses for biodiversity governance, and the regulatory gaps surr...