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Research

I am recognized for my groundbreaking research on chlorine biogeochemistry and my leadership in interdisciplinary research and education.

My research program deals with the production and use of science for policy, presently focusing on chemicals management. The questions that drive my present research program are:

• What kind of knowledge is needed, used and trusted?
• How does the knowledge used impact perceived solutions?
• How might we facilitate for decision makers and the public to ‘unpack’ assumptions, values and preferences that are embedded in such knowledge?

My research in higher education asks how to teach about science for policy. My book is mandatory in graduate programs at the University of Californa, Berkley, Lancaster University, UK, Lund University, Sweden, and others.

Leadership

2006-2011. Director of the , which by external reviewers is assessed as one of the leading interdisciplinary environmental research centers in North America.

2004-2006. Founding director of the at Linköping University, Sweden, which uniquely integrates climate modelling, climate policy and social science.

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Research monographs

Öberg, Gunilla, 2011. . Blackwell & Wiley. A guidebook for graduate students grappling with interdisciplinary studies. Mandatory at several graduate programs around the world (e.g. University of Californa, Berkley in the USA, Lancaster University in the UK , Lund University, Sweden) (cited 48 x)

Representative publications

McIlroy‐Young, Browyn; Leopold, Annegaaike and Öberg, Gunilla (2021), Integr Environ Assess Manag, 17: 480-481.

Vazquez, Marco, McIlroy‐Young, Bronwyn, Steel, Daniel, Giang, Amanda, Öberg, Gunilla (2021) Risk Analysis.

McIlroy-Young, Bronwyn; Öberg, Gunilla & Leopold, Annegaaike (2021) Environmental Science & Policy. Volume 122, 25-34.

Gunilla Öberg, Geneviève S. Metson, Yusuke Kuwayama and Steven Conrad. 2020. Sustainability 2020,12, 6518 (over 100 full text views within one week of publication).
Contribution: Conceptualization, coordination of research, analysis and ms development

Gunilla Öberg, Kevin Elliot and Annegaaike Leopold 2019 Integrated Environmental Assessment and Management 16: 6-7. (cited 2x)
Contribution: Conceptualization, coordination of ms development

Gunilla Oberg and Annegaaike Leopold 2019  . Environment International 131: 104960 (cited 1x)
Contribution: Conceptualization and research, coordination of analysis and ms development

Sarah A. Mason-Renton, Marco Vazquez, Connor Robinson, Gunilla Öberg 2019 . Risk Analysis 39 (6): 1229-1242 (cited 1x)
Contribution: Conceptualization of study, supervision of research, analysis and ms development (Mason-Renton: post-doc, Vazquez and Robinson MSc students)

Gunilla Oberg and Alice Campell 2019 International Journal of Science Education 41(2):230-247 (cited 2x)
Contribution: Conceptualization, coordination of research, analysis and ms development

Gunilla Öberg and Sarah A. Mason-Renton. 2018. . Environmental Science & Policy 84: 88-96. (cited 13x)
Contribution: Conceptualization, research, analysis and development of first draft.

Genevieve S. Metson, Steve M. Powers, Rebecca L. Hale, Jesse s. Sayles, Gunilla Öberg, G., Graham K. MacDonald, , … & Alexander F. Bowman 2018. . Regional environmental change, 8:1 387–1401 (cited 17x)
Contribution: Group effort coordinated by Metson. Öberg contributed to conceptualization, analysis and ms development.

Margaret del Carmen Morales*, Leila Harris and Gunilla Öberg. 2014. . Environment and Planning A 46: 2816 – 2833 (cited 47x)
Contribution: Supervision of research, analysis and ms development (Carmen Morales: MA student, Harris: co-supervisor)

Gunilla Öberg, M. Gabriela Merlinsky, Alicia LaValle, Margaret Morales, and M. Melina Tobias. 2014. , Canada. Ecology and Society 19(2)19 (cited 20 times)
Contribution: Conceptualization, coordination of research, analysis and ms development.

Jacqueline A. Belzile and Gunilla Öberg 2012 Qualitative Research 12 (4): 459-472 (cited 166x)
Contribution: Supervision of research, analysis and ms development (Belzile: MA student)

PI of the UBC project funded by the Canadian Social Science and Humanities Research Council (SSHRC).

Project goal: We are examining the relationship between the values held by scientific experts, their disciplinary identities and the evidence-based policies they recommend and exploring how embracing the diversity of values among experts can be used to strengthen the democratic process, focusing on controversies surrounding wastewater management.