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)

I research the gendered dimensions of human thinking, acting and creating. I am particularly interested in how different people and forms of knowledge can work together, and how this collaboration can be made visible. The question of who can contribute to knowledge is also a question of equality, because knowledge is always situated: who is asking, from where, with which body and which history, and who is listening, shapes what we can know. In my work, I combine archival research, discourse and policy analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork with situated art interventions. I often collaborate across disciplines and with partners beyond academia.

I am specifically interested in:

• Ageing, dementia and creativity. I lead the Artful Dementia Research Lab (ADLab), where we explore feminist care as a shared practice and a good life as something we create together.
• Environmental humanities and coastal cultures. I explore how gender, planetary health and local knowledge are lived in coastal communities, and what these experiences can add to our understanding of coastal cultures. One example is the travelling ArtScience exhibition Living with the Ocean. I’m also vice-lead of the UArctic thematic network on Environmental Humanities.
• Music, gender and performative history-writing. I work on recovering women’s cultural work, building on my research on women composers in 19th-century Norway.

 Expertise

• Ageing and Dementia
• Citizen Science
• Coastal Cultures
• Co-creativity
• Creative Methods
• Gender and Gender Equality
• Historiography and Storytelling
• Open Research
• Research Communication
• Research Ethics
• Sound and Music

Member

• UArctic Thematic Network on Gender in Arctic Knowledge Production
• UArctic Thematic Network on Environmental Humanities

Political philosophy, in particular theories of democracy and justice. 

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. 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. More broadly, I work at the intersection of literature, monsterstudies, environmental humanities, and gender studies.

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
   

My research interests lie at the intersection of gender studies, cultural theory, critical AI studies, affect theory, and media and technology studies. I am particularly interested in how emerging technologies reshape gender, intimacy, emotion, embodiment, and human relations with technological objects. I am also interested in experimental writing as a form of feminist epistemology and knowledge production, including practices that challenge conventional academic forms and explore how writing itself can function as a method of cultural and theoretical inquiry. My work frequently moves between cultural theory, artistic research, technological experimentation, and critical inquiry into contemporary technoculture.

My research projects:

• 2024–2027 Love Tester Machines. Prototype Technologies for Profiling Personalities, Feelings and Relationships (Cultural Research) • National Science Center Individual OPUS Grant no 2023/49/B/HS2/00054 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
• 2020–2025 Networking Ecologically Smart Territories • Horizon2020 Marie-Curie Actions Group Grant No 101007915 directed by Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick of Technology University in Dublin (Roles: SENIOR RESEARCHER, TASK DIRECTOR, RESEARCH DISSEMINATION OFFICER)   
• 2020–2024 Technologies for Love. Cultures of Feeling and Intimacy under Affective Media • National Science Center Individual OPUS Grant no 2020/37/B/HS2/01455 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
• 2018–2019 Feelings Without Organs. Love in Contemporary Technoculture • Senior Fulbright Fellowship from the Advanced Research Program of the Fulbright Foundation carried out at the New School in New York USA (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
• 2017–2018 Love and New Materialism, National Science Center Individual MINIATURA Grant no 2017/01/X/HS2/00713 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)

 Courses:

• HIF-2300 - Diversity, Gender, and Equity: Leadership for Transformative Change in Institutions
• HIF-1300 - Diversity, Gender, and Equity: Leadership for Transformative Change in Institutions

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.