This page will contain information about workrelated projects I am and have been involved in.
Strategies for commercialisation and market development of new renewable energy-technology:
The project seeks to examine innovation, implementation and commercialization of bioenergy and related technologies from the suppliers’ point of view. With this in mind, its main purpose is to perform a comparison between Norway and Sweden. At a general level the project aims to study different efforts at utilizing bio energy that has resulted in successful implementation, commercialization and market development in the two countries.
- Et grønt paradoks (feature article in Adresseavisen)
- Opprett klimadepartementet! (feature article in Dagens Næringsliv, Norwegian newspaper. Written with Gard Hopsdal Hansen and Jøran Solli)
- De grønne gründerne (Dagbladet, Norwegian newspaper. Written with Gard Hopsdal Hansen)
Media reporting on climate changes
- “Omstridt” forskning? (”Disputed” science?) Interview at “Radio Revolt” (Read or listen)
- Ryghaug, M and T.M Skjølsvold. 2009. Achieving a balanced view? A comparative analysis of newspaper coverage of climate change in Norway and Sweden, 2002–2008. IOP Conf. Series: Earth and Environmental Science. Vol. 6 532022 (link)
- Achieving a balanced view? (Poster, presented at Climate Change. Global risks, challenges & decisions. 10-12 March 2009, Copenhagen. )
- Norske avisers klimasvik (Dagbladet, Norwegian newspaper)
The Malawi Landtenure and Social capital Research-project
The MLT&SC’s main goal is to assess what impact formalization of property rights to land will have on the distribution of this important economic resource in the population. As an MA-associate with the project I had the opportunity to do three months of fieldwork in the Kasungu district in central-Malawi. In my thesis I examined two Common Pool Resources from an institutional point of view, trying to assess how formal and informal institutions fosters cooperation, conflict or something in-between. In addition to studying actual Common Pool Resources a series of experimental public goods games were played with local participants to see how cooperative players could be under stable rules of the game.
Read more:
- Skjølsvold, Tomas M. 2008. The institutional Reality of Common Pool Resources, MA-thesis in sociology. Department of sociology and political science, NTNU.
- Skjølsvold, Tomas M. 2008. Institutional conflicts as results of institutional design – can they be avoided?. Paper presented at the 12th biennial conference of the international association for the study of commons. 14-18 July, 2008: Cheltenham, UK.
Read more about the project on it’s homepages
NEWS: Data documentation report from the MLT&SC is now available through the projects homepages. Read it here
The Sociology of Cafés
This project explores the social potential in cafés as something we may loosely call 3rd places. They are not our homes, they are not our official working places, and yet we continue to seek them out to do things that could just as easily have been done elsewhere. In this project I have mainly been involved in the empirical work; qualitative observations as well as interviews. There are (vague) plans for a book – a goal is to have this out by fall, 2010, and on some level or other I’ll be involved in the writing of this. More to come on this. The project has generated some media-attention. Read about it in:
- NRK P1 (Radio – Audio) NRK (text)
- Adresseavisen I Adresseavisen II
- Forskning.no
