• feminist theories, especially feminist new materialism
• feminist pedagogy
• artistic research
• inequality
• places
• sound/music
• artificial intelligence

PI of Arctic Auditories - Hydrospheres of the High North (NFR 325506, 2021-25)

member of the advisory board of WoVen (NFR 2021-26, PI: Melania Bucciarelli, NTNU)

co-editor of the European Journal of Musicology

Networks: the Sustainability Academic Network (SUSAN), Nordic Soundscape Research Network (NSRN)

In my work, I explore ways we can live together despite differences in age, gender, ability, nationality, ethnicity, and / or other differentiating mechanisms. Questions about how we can promote interaction and integration in society without standardizing ways of living are central. These are issues that are particularly urgent for individuals and groups of people who do not have or will not be able to live up to a given standard. 

In my current research, I focus on people who have developed brain failure in adulthood, often in the form of a dementia disease, and ask how everyday life can be organized to ensure that their potential contributions to social development are actualized and their citizenship maintained. I do this by investigating inter-action and intra-action through creative processes and artistic activity. The methodological approach is qualitative, while I theoretically apply material feminist theory and citizenship theory. 

Research on the history of Indigenous internationalism. Particular interest in links and transitions between transnational anti-colonial movements in Africa and Asia (including Pan-Africanism and the Non-Aligned Movement) and the growth of the global Indigenous movement (in the form of organizations like the World Council of Indigenous Peoples). Also, the work done by the transnational Indigenous Permanent Participant organizations of the Arctic Council.

Leader of the Global Research in Indigenous Studies and History (GRISH) research group.

• AI in Education
• feminist pedagogy, demokratic learningsprocesses, communities of practice 
• textbook research 
• graphic novels
• Information literacy, fake news, rumour, propaganda
• Critical Race Theory
• in-service teacher training

Member of research groups: 

ENCODE (ISK, UiT)

LÆREVERKFORSKNING (NTNU)

Teknologi og læring (UiT, ILP)

ConGender (UiT, SKK)

Ageing and Dementia
Coastal Cultures
Gender and Gender Equality
Historiography and Storytelling
Sound and Music

Expertise

Co-creativity
Citizen Science
Open Research
Research Communication
Research Ethics   

Political philosophy, democracy, citizenship, theories of justice, public reason, global justice,feminism, ethics, research etihics.

I am a literary scholar with a PhD in Nordic literature and extensive experience of interdisciplinary research environments at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. My research centres on feminist epistemologies and methodology, with a particular emphasis on listening as a knowledge practice in the humanities and across the social world. More broadly, I work at the intersection of sound and sensory studies, environmental humanities, and gender studies. I am interested in exploring how listening can open up more inclusive, caring, and responsible ways of understanding both human and more-than-human environments.

As a postdoctoral researcher in feminist studies on the project Arctic Auditories – Hydrospheres in the High North, I have worked with research communication, fieldwork-adjacent perspectives, and collective practices of writing and reflection. This latter work has fostered an academic interest in the concept of “care” and in non-hierarchical ways of working in academia. I am concerned with how critical theory can be translated into concrete pedagogical and institutional practices, and with how it can provide tools for co-creating positive, transformative learning environments.

During my doctoral research fellowship, I worked on illness narratives and Scandinavian Gothic, examining how Gothic devices can help to cut through linguistic and cultural barriers in order to convey the lived experience and affect of illnesses such as cancer, eating disorders, and dementia.

Through my publications, teaching, and scholarly organisational work, I also contribute to strengthening conversations about feminist knowledge production, accessibility, and sustainable futures at universities and in society.

RESEARCH ARES OF INTEREST: 

Feminist methodologies
Feminist epistemologies
Gothic Literature Studies
Environmental Humanities
Monster methodologies
Medical Humanities
Gender Studies
EcoGothic
Nordic and Scandinavian Gothic

• Sociology of health and illness
• Health services research
• Digitalisation and technology in health care
• Gender research
• Qualitative methods
• Health Experiences International - Research network
   

Stine Willum Adrian is a Professor in sociology of health, welfare and qualitative methods at Department of the Social Sciences at The Arctic University of Norway. Adrian is a sociologist by training and holds a PhD in feminist STS and cultural analysis. Adrian’s work has always been interdisciplinary joining ethnography of medical technologies with cultural analysis, ethics and law. Her research interests lie in questions concerning, reproductive technology, technologies of death and dying at the beginning of life, gender, intersectionality, feminist materialisms, the entanglement of technologies and ethics, ethnographic and qualitative methods. Adrian has previously done several comprehensive ethnographic studies on fertility clinics and sperm banks in Denmark and Sweden looking at IVF, insemination, fertility travelling, cryo-technologies, sperm banking, sperm depositing, and she is currently engaged in researching technologies of death and dying at the beginning of life.