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I have a background in philosophy, law and science and technology studies (Vitenskapsteori). My main research interests are in governance and politics of technoscience, and in the overall evolution of the knowledge society and modernity into conditions that we would call non-modern. I have studied interrelations of politics, governance and technoscience in domains ranging from biomedicine (genomics), over security (biometrics, surveillance and privacy) to energy transition and climate policies. Over the last years, my research has increasingly dealt with efforts to bring ever-more aspects of material, social and biological reality into digital mediation and datafication (such as Internet of Things, smart electricity, ‘smart’ technologies and AI). 

2024

• Moderator: 04.06.2024
• Opinion piece: . University World News, 18.05.2024
• GET-together seminars (Governing Energy Transitions), University of Stavanger, 09.04.24
• Presentation of University of Bergen's Master in Sustainability together with student Ingrid Thorsen during the , SDG Conference 2024, 09.02.24
• Panelist in Day Zero workshop , SDG Conference 2024, 07.02.24

2023

• Opinion piece about the Ukraine war: Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 03.05.23 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
• Comment:   Agenda magasin, 07.03.23 (in Norwegian)
• Panel organizer: , . University of Oslo, 7-9 June 2023

2022

• , SVT, 30.11.2022
•   A reply to responses to Scenarioenes makt in Klassekampen, 04.11.2022 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
• . Opinion piece in Klassekampen, 28.10.2022 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
• Lecture on the digitalization of the Norwegian energy production. 22.08.22
• Panel with Niels van Dijk: Workshop: , Greece 03.06.22
• . Rommetveit presented the research project CoPol, which is concerned with political, legal and social dimensions connected to digital contact tracing of Covid-19. 20.05.22
• Opinion piece in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 7.05.2022 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
• Article with Roger Strand in Aftenposten Viten - Norwegian daily Aftenpostens's space for research and science, where researchers and experts from all over the country contribute. 15.03.22 (in Norwegian)
• Interview in Energi og klima, 09.03.2022 (in Norwegian)

2021

• Talk: Data as evidence for action - the case of Covid-19 digital contact tracing. SVT's 2021 symposium 03.12.2021
• . Opinion piece in Norwegian daily Dagens Næringsliv with Siddharth Sareen and Ingrid F. Ballo, 22.10.2021 (in Norwegian)
• . Article in the research magazine Forskningspolitikk, 1 June 2021 (in Norwegian)
• . Podcast in the series ClimatenergyTalks! by .
• Commentary on Brexit in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 27.01.2021 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
• Opinion piece on Brexit in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 16.01.2021 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)

2020

• Commentary on Brexit in Norwegian daily Klassekampen, 19.12.2020 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)
• - 03.12.2020 - Make way for the robots! - University of Stavanger
• Commentary on Brexit in Klassekampen, 09.09.2020 (in Norwegian, behind paywall)

Previous communication

• . Open meeting in The Norwegian Biotechnology Advisory Board, 10.12.2013 (presentation in Norwegian)

As a teacher I have led the development of the interdisciplinary master's program on sustainability and interdisciplinarity, which I also coordinate and teach. The program involves teachers from four faculties at the University of Bergen, namely: humanities, natural science, social sciences and law. Our approach to teaching is interdisciplinary, student-centric and problem-oriented. We combine such approaches with more traditional classrooms-based approaches, dealing with the history, institutions and ways of knowing involved in sustainability science and politics.

 

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Select publications in English

Van Dijk, N., Rommetveit, K., & Otmianowski, M. (2026). Privacy designs, technological sovereignty and digital pandemic response-ability. Journal of Responsible Innovation, 13(1).

Antti Silvast, Sampsa Hyysalo, Robin Williams, Kjetil Rommetveit. (2026). Energy information infrastructures: Beyond system conceptions of energy and digitalisation, Energy Research & Social Science, Volume 135, 104674,

Kovacic, Z., Rommetveit, K., Völker, T., & Strand, R. (2025). Innovations as imagined futures in EU sustainability policies. Law, Innovation and Technology, 17(2), 751–782.

Rommetveit, K., Ballo, I. F., & Sareen, S. (2024). Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition. Science, Technology, & Human Values, 49(3), 472-499.

Rommetveit, K. (2024) In a post-truth world, scientists need to embrace activism. University World News 18. May.

Ballo, I.F., Rommetveit, K., 2023. Making sense of sensing homes: exploring ‘regimes of engagement’ in a smart urban energy context. Urban Geography 1–22. 

Remme, D., Sareen, S., Haarstad, H., Rommetveit, K., 2023. Electric Vehicle Paradise? Exploring the Value Chains of Green Extractivism. poldev. 

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., 2022. Privacy engineering and the techno-regulatory imaginary. Soc Stud Sci 52, 853–877. 

Bærøe, K., Gundersen, T., Henden, E., Rommetveit, K., 2022. Can medical algorithms be fair? Three ethical quandaries and one dilemma. BMJ Health Care Inform 29, e100445. 

Rommetveit, K., 2021. Post-Truth Imaginations: New Starting Points for Critique of Politics and Technoscience, 1st ed. Routledge, London. 

Rommetveit, K., 2021. Introduction: Post-truth – another fork in modernity's path, in: Post-Truth Imaginations. Routledge, London, pp. 1–30. 

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., 2021. Governing the Median Estate, in: Post-Truth Imaginations. Routledge, London, pp. 199–220.

Rommetveit, K., Ballo, I.F., Sareen, S., 2021. Extracting Users: Regimes of Engagement in Norwegian Smart Electricity Transition. Science, Technology, & Human Values 016224392110528. 

Sareen, S., Saltelli, A., Rommetveit, K., 2020. Ethics of quantification: illumination, obfuscation and performative legitimation. Palgrave Commun 6, 20. 

Rommetveit, K., Van Dijk, N., Gunnarsdóttir, K., 2020. Make Way for the Robots! Human- and Machine-Centricity in Constituting a European Public–Private Partnership. Minerva 58, 47–69. 

Rommetveit, K., Dijk, N.V., Gunnarsdóttir, K., O’Riordan, K., Gutwirth, S., Strand, R., Wynne, B., 2019. Working responsibly across boundaries? Some practical and theoretical lessons, in: Von Schomberg, R., Hankins, J. (Eds.), International Handbook on Responsible Innovation. Edward Elgar Publishing. 

Silvast, A., Williams, R. A., Hyysalo, S., Rommetveit, K. and Raab, C. (2018) Sustainability. Volume 10 (10), 1-21

Strand, R., Saltelli, A., Giampietro. M., Rommetveit, K. & Funtowicz, S. (2018) The Journal of Cleaner Production, 197(2), 1849-1853.

Van Dijk, N., Tanas, A., Rommetveit, K., Raab., C. (online 10 Apr 2018) International review of law computers & technology. Volume 32 (2-3), 230-256

Rommetveit, K. Tanas, A., van Dijk, N. (2018). IFIP Advances in Information and Communication Technology. Volume 526, 25-37

Rommetveit, K., Wynne, B. (2017) “Technoscience, imagined publics and public imaginations”. Public Understanding of Science, 26(2): 133–147.

Rommetveit, K., Wynne, B. (2017) “Editorial: Imagining public issues in the technosciences”. , 26(2), 128-132.

Gunnarsdottír, K. and Rommetveit, K. (2017) “Biometry and the securitization agenda. (Dis)trust in a policy vacuum”. Public Understanding of Science. 26(2): 26(2), 195–211.

Rommetveit, K. Guimares-Pereira, A., Pedrosa, T. (2016) ”Digital Globes: Layers of meaning and technology, redefining geographies and communities”. In: Delgado, A. (Ed. 2016) Technoscience, Citizenship, Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society. New York: Springer.

Rommetveit, K. (2016) “Introducing biometrics in the European Union: practice and imagination”. In: Delgado, A. (Ed. 2016) Technoscience, Citizenship, Ethics and Governance in the Digital Society. New York: Springer.

Van Dijk, N., Gellert, R., Rommetveit, K. (2016) “A Risk to a Right? Beyond Data Protection Risk Assessments”. Computer Law Security Review. 32(2), 286-307.

Rommetveit, K. (2015) "Biometrics". The Norwegian National Research Ethics Committees.

Rommetveit, K., Gunnarsdóttir, K., Jepsen, K. S., Bertilsson, M., Verrax, F. and Strand, R. (2013): “The Technolife Project: An experimental approach to new ethical frameworks for emerging science and technology”, The International Journal of Sustainable Development, 16(1-2), 23–45.

Rommetveit, K. (2013) ”Who’s Autonomous now?” Bioethica Forum, 6 (3), 107-109.

Rommetveit, K. Scully, J. L., Porz, R. (2013) “The Role of Moral Imagination in Patients’s Decision-Making”.  Apr; 38(2),160-72.

Rommetveit, K. ”Immortality”. In Øyen, Olsen & Vaage (Eds. 2012) Sacred Science? On Science and its interrelations with religious worldviews. Wageningen Academic Publishers.

Delgado, A., Rommetveit, K. (2012) “’Our strength is diversity’: imaginaries of nature and community in a Brazilian social movement". International Journal of Sustainable Development 15 (4), 353-373.

Delgado, A., Rommetveit, K., Lemkow, L, Barcelo, M. (2012): “Imagining high-tech bodies: Science fiction and the ethics of enhancement”, Science Communication, 34(2), 200-240.

Rommetveit, K. (2011). “ICTs and responsible innovation: imaginaries of information and community”. In von Schomberg (ed.), “Governance and Ethics of Emerging ICT and Security Technologies”. Publication series Governance and Ethics, DG Research, European Commission.

Rommetveit, K. (2011). “Tackling epistemological naivety: large-scale information systems and the complexities of the common good”, Cambridge Quartely of Healthcare Ethics, 20, 1–12.

Rommetveit, K., “Genetic enhancement, futures tense” (2011) Futures, 76–85.

Rommetveit, K., Funtowicz, S. and Strand, R. (2010): “Knowledge, Democracy and Action in Response to Climate Change” in Roy Bhaskar et. al, "Interdisciplinarity and Global Warming", London and New York: Routledge, 149-165.

Rommetveit, K. (2009): “Bioethics, biopower and the post-genomic challenge”. In: Gunning, J., Holm, S. Kenway, I., "Ethics, Law and Society" Vol VI book series, Ashgate Publishers, 165-186.

Rommetveit, K., Porz, R. (2009) "Tragedy and boundary situations in predictive genetic testing", Medicine, Health Care and Philosophy, 12(1), 9–16.

Rommetveit, K. (2008). "Towards a hermeneutic of technomedical objects", Theoretical Medicine and Bioethics, 29:2, 103-120.

Rommetveit, K. (2007): "Biotechnology: Action and choice in second modernity", PhD

Thesis, Faculty of Arts, University of Bergen.

     Helland, T., Rommetveit, K. (2006. "Current dyslexia research seen in the light of I.

Lakatos philosophy of research programmes", in C. B. Haies (ed.), Dyslexia in Children:

New Research. New York: Nova Sciences Publishers Inc.

Select publications in Norwegian

Rommetveit, Kjetil (2021). Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift. 38(01): 111-123

Rommetveit, K. (2015) ”Den Lange Marsjen ved et veiskille”. Vagant 2/2015.

Strand, R., & Rommetveit, K. (2013) “Hva har verden lært av klimavitenskapen?”. 2°C. 02.2013.

Rommetveit, K. (2012) “Anmeldelse av Regjerningens Nasjonale strategi for bioteknologi 2011-2020”. Salongen – Nettstedet for filosofi og idehitsorie. http://salongen.no/

Rommetveit, K. (2011). ”Biometri: forskningsetiske utfordringer” Online resource, Norwegian Committee for research-ethics in science and technology. http://www.etikkom.no/In-English/Committee-for-Research-Ethics-in-Science-and-Technology/

Strand, R. & Rommetveit, K. “Avstand og Avmakt”. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 1/2012.

Strand, R. & Rommetveit, K. (2011) “Trond, Tora og Askeladden – et forskningspolitisk eventyr”. Nytt Norsk Tidsskrift 3/2011.

Select reports

Rommetveit, K, Dunajcsik, M. Tanas, A. Silvast, A. and Gunnarsdóttir, K. (2017). The CANDID Primer: Including Social Sciences and Humanities scholarship in the making and use of smart ICT technologies (edited by K Gunnarsdóttir). CANDID (H2020-ICT-35- 2016) D5.4, available at http://candid.no/progress

Rommetveit, K. Gunnarsdóttir, K., van Dijk, N., Smits, M.  Making robotic autonomy through science and law? EPINET project report. April 2015. Available at goo.gl/7XXfEb

Van Dijk, N, Rommetveit, K. A Risk to a Right? Cross-Cutting Lessons for Data Protection Impact Assessments Summary of findings and policy recommendations. April 2015. Available at:  goo.gl/RxDaR9

Rommetveit, K., Strand, R., Fjelland, R., Funtowicz, S. (2013) “What can history teach us about the prospects of a European Research Area?”. European Commission, JRC scientific and policy reports. Available at

Overview of publications in Cristin:

Current projects

• (NFR - SAMRISK) [2021-2025) - principal investigator
• (H2020 Swafs) [2019-2023] - partner
• (NFR-Forskerskole) [2022-2030] - partner
• (NFR -MAROFF-2) [2021-2026] - partner

Completed projects

• (H2020) [2016-2020]
• (SAMKUL network - NFR) [2016-2017]
• – (ERA-NET Cofund H2020/NFR) [2016-2019]
• (H2020) [2017]
• ), (FP7) [2014-2017]
• (FP7) [2012-2015]
• (Joint Research Centre, European Commission) [2012-2013]
• () [2009-2011]