Melania Borit
Job description
Professor of Knowledge Integration / Methodologies for Interdisciplinary Research
- Leader of the Research Group CRAFT - Knowledge Integration and Blue Futures.
- Coordinator: AFO-JIGG - Service design thinking to improve welfare and product quality in the
Norwegian small-scale fishing fleet (NFR project number 302635). - Coordinator: FUTURES4Fish - Adaptive socio-technological solutions for Norwegian fisheries and aquaculture (NFR project number 325814).
- Coordinator: PULLMATE - Prompt engineering for self-reflective use of Large Language Models as intelligent tutoring systems in higher educaton (Program for utdanningskvalitet PUK-UiT)
- Main Coordinator: Qual2Rule - Using Qualitative Data to Inform Behavioural Rules in Agent-Based Modelling (Special Interest Group @ European Social Simulation Association).
- Co-coordinator: SSG - Social Simulation and Games (Special Interest Group @ European Social Simulation Association).
- Co-coordinator: MOOD - Models of Human Decision (Special Interest Group @ European Social Simulation Association).
- Secretary: ESSA - European Social Simulation Association.
Polhill, Gary,
Melania Borit,
Elsenbroich, Corinna,
Verhagen, Harko,
Wijermans, Nanda
:
Ethical Dimensions to Empirical Applications of Agent-Based Social Simulation | Springer Nature Link
Vanhée, Loïs,
Melania Borit
:
How Interdisciplinary are Agent Based Models in General and Those of Human Decision in Particular? A Bibliometric Analysis | Springer Nature Link
Theodora Sam,
Melania Borit
:
Conceptualizing fishery systems: An analysis of definitions
Loïs Vanhée,
Karin Danielsson,
Lena Enqvist,
Kalle Grill,
Melania Borit
:
Hack it with EDUCHIC! educational hackathons and interdisciplinary challenges—Definitions, principles, and pedagogical guidelines
Francesca Giardini,
Melania Borit,
Harko Verhagen,
Nanda Wijermans
:
Modeling Realistic Human Behavior in Disasters. A Rapid Literature Review of Agent-Based Models Reviews
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Thirty Years of Sense and Sensibility in Agent-Based Models: A Bibliometric Analysis
Sebastian Achter,
Melania Borit,
Clémentine Cottineau,
Matthias Meyer,
J. Gareth Polhill,
Viktoriia Radchuk
:
How to conduct more systematic reviews of agent-based models and foster theory development - Taking stock and looking ahead
Rana Tallal Javed,
Osama Nasir,
Melania Borit,
Loïs Vanhée,
Elias Zea,
Shivam Gupta
et al.:
Get Out of the BAG! Silos in AI Ethics Education: Unsupervised Topic Modeling Analysis of Global AI Curricula (Extended Abstract)
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Ethical By Designer - How to Grow Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence (Extended Abstract)
Timo Szczepanska,
Andreas Angourakis,
Shawn Graham,
Melania Borit
:
Quantum Leaper: A Methodology Journey From a Model in NetLogo to a Game in Unity
Timo Szczepanska,
Patrycja Antosz,
Jan Ole Berndt,
Melania Borit,
Edmund Chattoe-Brown,
Sara Mehryar
et al.:
GAM on! Six ways to explore social complexity by combining games and agent-based models
Lilli Mittner,
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit,
Kate Maxwell
:
Cultural Management of Fish Resources: Diversity for the Future
2026 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Lilli Mittner
:
Living with the Ocean Arctic Frontiers 2026
2026 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
From Fisheries 0.0 to 5.0: Imagining the future of fishing technologies
18. August 2026 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Economic Impact Assessment of Marine Autonomous Operations: A Methodological Framework
27. May 2026 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Economic Impact Assessment of Marine Autonomous Operations: A Review of Methodologies
30. January 2026 ARKIV
Marianna Osokina,
Melania Borit,
Roger B. Larsen,
Holger Pötzsch,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining “technology for tomorrow”: Futures of technology design in the fisheries sector
30. January 2026 ARKIV
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Holly Molander,
Guri Kristin Hjallen Eriksen,
Bruce Edmonds,
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege
et al.:
Anticipatory Governance of Autonomous Natural Resource Extraction
09. September 2026 ARKIV
Melania Borit,
Holly Molander,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Guri Kristin Hjallen Eriksen,
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Lilli Mittner
et al.:
Living with the Ocean (Exhibition and Guided Walk)
09. September 2026 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Anneliese Furlong-Muir,
Melania Borit,
Holger Pötzsch
:
What is an Ecorevolutionary TTRPG?
Marianna Osokina,
Melania Borit,
Roger B. Larsen,
Holger Pötzsch,
Jorge Santos
:
(Co)Designing future fisheries: A study of fishers and fishing technology designers
2026 ARKIV
Andreas Altenburger,
Melania Borit,
Maxime Geoffroy,
Karine Nigar Aarskog,
Ekaterina Mikhailova
:
Arctic Future Pathfinders course report
Zoheb Mashiur,
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit,
Therese Holt Hansen
:
The Read/Play/Write Method: Using TTRPGs in the Teaching of Literature
04. June 2026 ARKIV
Bruce Edmonds,
Melania Borit
:
Walking towards a cliff edge: Can a combination of participatory futures and agent-based modelling approaches help make SES tipping-points feel real?
Martin Engelsen Oddekalv,
Melania Borit,
Jaran Rauø,
Robert McDonald
:
Potensiell bruk av kjernekraft i den havgående norske trålerflåten – Interessenter og deres meninger
Universitetet i Tromsø 15. May 2025 ARKIV
Vegard Syrstad Esp,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Hvordan brukes kunstig intelligens i norsk havbruksnæring? En analyse av dagens praksis og fremtidige muligheter
Universitetet i Tromsø 15. May 2025 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Lilli Mittner,
Melania Borit,
Andreia Conceição,
Zoheb Mashiur
:
Of Fish and People: Can Art Bridge Sciences?
Kavin Preethi Narasimhan,
Amel Bennaceur,
Melania Borit,
Bruce Edmonds,
Isabel Florence Franke,
Alison Heppenstall
et al.:
Computationally Simulated Future Societies: Using Social Simulation Models for Futures Studies
2025 ARKIV
Krisztina Jonas,
Melania Borit
:
Creative futuring of socio-technical transformations through Embodied Transformation Theatre
11. June 2025 ARKIV
Marianna Osokina,
Melania Borit,
Roger B. Larsen,
Holger Pötzsch,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining “Technology for tomorrow”: (Co)shaping next-generation technology for marine resource extraction
2025 ARKIV
Eva Christina Makaria Lentz,
Melania Borit,
Holger Pötzsch
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2025 ARKIV
Timo Szczepanska,
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur
:
Combining Worldbuilding, Game Design, and Creative Writing for Eliciting Rich Descriptions of Technological Futures in Interdisciplinary Teams
10. June 2025 ARKIV
Lakshika Hasini Kahanda Kanaththege,
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Autonomous Technologies and the Futures of Fisheries: A Comprehensive Impact Assessment with a Focus on Economic Viability
2025 ARKIV
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches on broadening the perspectives on Emotion Sensitive Artificial Intelligence
2025 ARKIV
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos,
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Lilli Mittner,
Andreia Conceicao,
Rui Dias
:
Living With the Ocean: An Outdoor ArtScience Exhibition. Sesimbra Maritime Museum, Portugal (April 2024).
2024 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit
:
Ecological Crisis and Misanthropy in Video Games: Beyond Extractivism and Extinction
2024 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit,
Marianna Osokina,
Lilli Mittner,
Andreia Conceição,
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos
:
Pasts and Futures of the Seas and Coasts: An Art-Based Educational Intervention
2024 ARKIV
Holger Pötzsch,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit,
Cornel Borit
:
Between ‘Stochastic Parrots’ and ‘Skynet’: Imaginaries of Data in Films on AI and Autonomous Technologies
2024 ARKIV
Christina Lentz,
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2024 ARKIV
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Artificial Intelligence for Anxiety: Pathways for Transdisciplinary Research on Anxiety Sensitive Artificial Intelligence
2024 ARKIV
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2024 ARKIV
Krisztina Jonas,
Melania Borit
:
Whose voice is heard? Ethics for safeguarding just and sustainable Arctic marine social-ecological futures
2023 ARKIV
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit,
Riyan J. G. van den Born,
Bernadette F. van Heel,
Krisztina Jonas,
Max Priebe
et al.:
FLOW D1.1 Open Access Transdisciplinary Dataset FLOW Encyclopædia
Melania Borit,
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Sommerlyst [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Kvaløya VGS II [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit
:
Mulig utvikling innen fiskeri og havbruk med digital teknologi og kunstig intelligens (Possible developments in fisheries and aquaculture with digital technologies and artificial intelligence)
2023 ARKIV
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit
:
Mer enn bare Kunstig Intelligens: mulig utvikling innen tradisjonell fiskeindustri og akvakultur med fokus på digitalteknologi
2023 ARKIV
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos,
Melania Borit
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Kvaløya VGS I [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023 ARKIV
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining the futures of fisheries and coasts - Nord-Troms videregående skole avd. Skjervøy, 2022
2022 ARKIV
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining the futures of fisheries and coasts - Steiner School, Tromsø, September 2022
2022 ARKIV
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Publications outside Cristin
Research interests
- social simulation, agent-based modelling, design of autonomous social agents, autonomous systems;
- evidence synthesis / knowledge integration;
- critical futures studies, science and technology studies;
- pedagogy and didactics in higher education, student active learning, game-based learning;
- traceability, certification, standardisation; risk communication;
- fisheries / natural resource management, IUU fishing; fisheries as socio-ecological complex adaptive systems;
- related legislation;
- culture and trust.
External collaborations:
Teaching
- Course coordinator (2025): MNF-3001/8001 Arctic Future Pathfinders. A journey through the Northwest Passage
- Course coordinator (2022-2025): FSK-3014 Project organisation and collaboration
- Course coordinator (from 2028): SVF-3404 Ocean Futures
Member of research group / centre
CV
- 2022 Professor of knowledge integration / methodologies for interdisciplinary research, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
2016 Associate professor of modelling and simulation of social processes and game-based learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway - 2014 PhD in Resource Management - Social Science, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway (Thesis title: Trust and traceability. Using culturally tailored environmental risk communication and transparency as trust-building tools)
- 2014 Accredited Lecturer in Intercultural Management, The Hofstede Centre, Finland
- 2023 Professor in knowledge integration / methodologies for interdisciplinary research, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2016 Associate professor in modelling and simulation of social processes and game-based learning, UiT The Arctic University of Norway
- 2014 PhD in Resource Management - Social Science, University of Tromsø - The Arctic University of Norway, Norway (Thesis title: Trust and traceability. Using culturally tailored environmental risk communication and transparency as trust-building tools)
- 2013 Accredited Lecturer in Organisational Culture and Change, The Hofstede Centre, Finland
- 2010 UniPed (Teacher Training in Higher Education), University of Tromsø, Norway
- 2009 Master of Science in International Fisheries Management, Norwegian College of Fishery Science, University of Tromsø, Norway
- 2005 Master of Laws in Maritime Law, Scandinavian Institute of Maritime Law, University of Oslo, Norway
- 2003 Bachelor of Laws, Faculty of Law, "Ovidius" University, Constanta, Romania
- 2003 Teachers' Training Program, "Ovidius" University, Constanta, Romania