Project staff

Project staff LINGCLIM

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Gisela Böhm is Professor in psychology and head of the research group DICE-Lab (Decision, Intuition, Consciousness, and Emotion) at the University of Bergen (Norway). Her research centers on the perception of climate change and other environmental risks, with a focus on the role of mental models, moral judgment, and emotional reactions in subjective risk evaluations. Recent articles of hers have been published in the Journal of Environmental Psychology, Environment and Behavior, Global Environmental Change: Human and Policy Dimensions, and WIREs Climate Change.

http://www.uib.no/persons/Gisela.Boehm

http://www.gisela-boehm.de

 

Trine Dahl is Professor of English linguistics at the Norwegian School of Economics. Her main research areas are text linguistics, discourse analysis and pragmatics. Her research has previously been related to academic texts and knowledge construction in the disciplines of economics and linguistics. Since 2010 she has been involved in research initiatives dealing with climate change communication. She has published in Journal of Pragmatics, Written Communication, Language & Communication and Fachsprache - International Journal of LSP.
http://www.nhh.no/en/research-faculty/department-of-professional-and-intercultural-communication/about-the-department/cv/dahl--trine.aspx

 

Helge Drange is professor in oceanography and climate research at the Geophysical Institute at the University of Bergen, and he is member of the leader group at the Bjerknes Centre for Climate Research in Bergen. Drange has wide experience in climate research in general and in climate modelling in particular. In addition to participating in and coordinating national and European climate research projects, Drange is active in climate outreach with a series of popular climate lectures and interviews/commentaries/chronicles in the press. Drange was in 2010 awarded the University of Bergen’s Meltzer Prize for public outreach. 
http://www.uib.no/People/ngfhd/

 

Kjersti Fløttum is Professor of French linguistics at the Department of Foreign Languages, University of Bergen. Her main research fields are text theory and discourse analysis with a focus on linguistic polyphony (multivoicedness) and dialogism. She has headed cross-disciplinary international research projects related to scientific, political and climate change discourse. Fløttum has co-authored/edited several books, and published papers in Journal of Pragmatics, Journal of Language and Politics, Fachsprache - International Journal of LSP, Language & Communication, and Climatic Change.  
http://www.uib.no/persons/Kjersti.Flottum

 

Øyvind Gjerstad has a PhD in French linguistics and discourse analysis from the University of Bergen, and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow with the LINGCLIM project. His research interests include polyphony and narratives in deliberative discourse, studying how texts on climate change comprise a plot, and how the voices and (re)actions of the different characters are integrated into the unfolding ‘story’. http://www.uib.no/persons/Oyvind.Gjerstad

 

Elisabeth Ivarsflaten is Associate Professor at the Department of Comparative Politics, University of Bergen.  Ivarsflaten specializes in the study of public opinion and political parties.  She is main coordinator of the Norwegian Citizen Panel at the University of Bergen.  Ivarsflaten holds a Ph D from the University of Oxford and was a Postdoctoral Prize Research Fellow at Nuffield College, Oxford.  Her articles have appeared in the Americal Journal of Political Science, Comparative Political Studies, and the European Journal of Political Research.
http://www.uib.no/persons/Elisabeth.Ivarsflaten

 

Oleksandr Kapranov is a post-doctoral research fellow with the LINGCLIM project. He holds a PhD from The University of Western Australia (UWA) in Perth. Oleksandr's research interests involve cognitive linguistics, psycholinguistics and  political discourse.  His current research agenda focuses on discourse of climate change in general  and  on corporate discourse on climate change in particlular. 

http://www.uib.no/personer/Oleksandr.Kapranov

 

Vegard Rivenes  is currently working as a research assistant on the LINGCLIM project. He graduated with a M.Sc in philosophy from University of Bergen in 2011. He has previously worked as a research assistant at the Climate change: media, politics and society project and as an executive officer also at University of Bergen. His main research interests are scientific uncertainty, the precautionary principle and ethics.

http://www.uib.no/persons/Vegard.Rivenes

 

Andrew Salway is a Senior Research Scientist and leader of the Computational Language Unit at Uni Research, Bergen. His research interests are focussed around corpus linguistics and text mining techniques, and their application in humanistic and social science research methodologies.
www.bbrel.co.uk