Bilde av Borit, Melania
Bilde av Borit, Melania
Professor The Norwegian College of Fishery Science melania.borit@uit.no +4777620934 91352814 You can find me here

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).
  • 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.

  • Loïs Vanhée, Karin Danielsson, Lena Enqvist, Kalle Grill, Melania Borit :
    Hack it with EDUCHIC! educational hackathons and interdisciplinary challenges—Definitions, principles, and pedagogical guidelines
    European Journal of Education 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Francesca Giardini, Melania Borit, Harko Verhagen, Nanda Wijermans :
    Modeling Realistic Human Behavior in Disasters. A Rapid Literature Review of Agent-Based Models Reviews
    Springer 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • Loïs Vanhée, Melania Borit :
    Thirty Years of Sense and Sensibility in Agent-Based Models: A Bibliometric Analysis
    Springer 2024 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    Environmental Modelling & Software 2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Loïs Vanhée, Melania Borit :
    Ethical By Designer - How to Grow Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence (Extended Abstract)
    2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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)
    2023 ARKIV / DOI
  • Loïs Vanhée, Melania Borit :
    Viewpoint: Ethical by Designer - How to Grow Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence
    The journal of artificial intelligence research 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Sebastian Achter, Melania Borit, Edmund Chattoe-Brown, Peer-Olaf Siebers :
    RAT-RS: a reporting standard for improving the documentation of data use in agent-based modelling
    International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    The journal of artificial intelligence research 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Timo Szczepanska, Andreas Angourakis, Shawn Graham, Melania Borit :
    Quantum Leaper: A Methodology Journey From a Model in NetLogo to a Game in Unity
    Springer Nature 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • 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
    International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Jan-Are Kolset Johnsen, Melania Borit, Lina Stangvaltaite-Mouhat :
    Using storytelling in undergraduate dental education: Students' experiences of emotional competence training
    European journal of dental education 2022 ARKIV / DOI
  • Peer-Olaf Siebers, Sebastian Achter, Cristiane Palaretti Bernardo, Melania Borit, Edmund Chattoe-Brown :
    First Steps Towards RAT: A Protocol for Documenting Data Use in the Agent-Based Modeling Process
    Springer 2021 FULLTEKST / ARKIV / DOI
  • Jørn Weines, Melania Borit :
    Better Game Worlds by Design: The GAS Framework for Designing and Analyzing Games Based on Socio-Ecological Systems Thinking, Demonstrated on Nusfjord (2017)
    Games and Culture 2021 ARKIV / DOI
  • Flaminio Squazzoni, J Gary Polhill, Bruce Edmonds, Petra Ahrweiler, Patrycja Antosz, Geeske Scholz et al.:
    Computational Models that Matter During a Global Pandemic Outbreak: A Call to Action
    JASSS : Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 2020 DOI
  • Melania Borit, Lina Stangvaltaite-Mouhat :
    GoDental! Enhancing flipped classroom experience with game-based learning
    European journal of dental education 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Flaminio Squazzoni, J. Gareth Polhill, Bruce Edmonds, Petra Ahrweiler, Patrycja Antosz, Geeske Scholz et al.:
    Computational Models That Matter During a Global Pandemic Outbreak: A Call to Action
    JASSS : Journal of Artificial Societies and Social Simulation 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Jorge Santos, Melania Borit, Loïs Vanhée :
    Modelling the “Captain’s Nose”: Exploring the Shift Towards Autonomous Fishing with Social Simulation
    Springer Proceedings in Complexity 2020 DOI
  • Charlotte Teresa Weber, Melania Borit, Michaela Aschan :
    An interdisciplinary insight into the human dimension in fisheries models. A systematic literature review in a European Union context
    Frontiers in Marine Science 2019 ARKIV / DOI
  • Cornel Borit, Melania Borit, Petter Olsen :
    Representations of colonialism in three popular, modern board games: Puerto Rico, Struggle of Empires, and Archipelago
    Open Library of Humanities 2018 ARKIV / DOI
  • Harko Verhagen, Melania Borit, Giangiacomo Bravo, Nanda Wijermans :
    Advances in Social Simulation. Looking in the Mirror
    Springer Nature 2020
  • Holger Pötzsch, Zoheb Mashiur, Melania Borit, Cornel Borit :
    Between ‘Stochastic Parrots’ and ‘Skynet’: Imaginaries of Data in Films on AI and Autonomous Technologies
    2024
  • 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
  • Zoheb Mashiur, Melania Borit :
    Ecological Crisis and Misanthropy in Video Games: Beyond Extractivism and Extinction
    2024
  • 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
    2023 FULLTEKST
  • 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
  • Jorge Santos, Melania Borit :
    Mer enn bare Kunstig Intelligens: mulig utvikling innen tradisjonell fiskeindustri og akvakultur med fokus på digitalteknologi
    2023
  • Jorge Santos, Melania Borit :
    Reise til fremtiden(e) Kvaløya VGS II [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
    2023
  • Melania Borit, Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos :
    Reise til fremtiden(e) Sommerlyst [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
    2023
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Melania Borit :
    PhD school Blue Route - Exploring the Oceans: Resources. Technology. Governance. Ethics. A Residential Workshop held at UiT- The ARctic University of Norway, October 2023
    2023 FULLTEKST
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Melania Borit, Luís Azevedo Rodrigues, Sara Mira :
    A remote digital internship at the Science Center of Lagos, September 2023. PhD- school Blue Route.
    2023 FULLTEKST
  • Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos, Melania Borit :
    Reise til fremtiden(e) Kvaløya VGS I [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
    2023
  • Patrycja Antosz, Sukaina Bharwani, Melania Borit, Bruce Edmonds :
    An introduction to the themed section on ‘Using agent-based simulation for integrating qualitative and quantitative evidence’
    International Journal of Social Research Methodology: Theory and Practice 2022 DOI
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos :
    Imagining the futures of fisheries and coasts - Nord-Troms videregående skole avd. Skjervøy, 2022
    2022
  • Petter Olsen, Shaheen Syed, Melania Borit, Céline Boéchat :
    Application, limitations, costs and benefits related to the use of blockchain technology in the seafood industry
    2022 ARKIV
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos :
    Imagining the futures of fisheries and coasts - Steiner School, Tromsø, September 2022
    2022
  • Jorge Santos, Melania Borit :
    A Work Experience For All:Simulated Internship In The Virtual Reality Of A Leading Fisheries Company
    2022
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos :
    AFO-JIGG: Service design thinking to improve welfare and product quality in the Norwegian small-scale fishing fleet
    2020 FULLTEKST
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos, Roger B. Larsen :
    Tenker nytt om kystfiskerienes fremtid
    21. April 2020
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos, Roger B. Larsen :
    Rethinking the future of coastal fisheries
    28. April 2020
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos, Roger B. Larsen :
    Nå skal et nytt prosjekt se på kvalitet og sikkerhet i juksaflåten
    24. April 2020
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos, Roger B. Larsen :
    Vil heise opp juksa som redskap
    22. April 2020
  • Melania Borit, Petter Olsen :
    Beyond regulatory compliance – Seafood traceability benefits and success cases
    Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) 2020 ARKIV / FULLTEKST
  • Melania Borit, Jorge Santos :
    Imagining the future of fisheries and coasts - Kvaløya High-school, 2020
    2020
  • Harko Verhagen, Melania Borit, Giangiacomo Bravo, Nanda Wijermans :
    Preface
    Springer Proceedings in Complexity 2020 DOI
  • Petter Olsen, Melania Borit, Shaheen Syed :
    Applications, limitations, costs, and benefits related to the use of blockchain technology in the food industry
    2019 ARKIV
  • Jørn Weines, Melania Borit :
    Playing with the Past to Understand the Present: The potential of using Nusfjord (2017) to Teach About the Complexity of Fisheries as SocioEcological Systems
    Games+Learning+Society Conference Proceedings 2019 ARKIV / FULLTEKST / DOI
  • Charlotte Teresa Weber, Melania Borit, Fabien Canolle, Eva Hnatkova, Davide Pacitti, Filomena Parada et al.:
    Identifying and Documenting Transferable Skills and Competences to Enhance Early Career Researchers Employability and Competitiveness.
    2018 ARKIV
  • Jørn Weines, Melania Borit :
    Playing with the Past to Understand the Present: The potential of using Nusfjord (2017) to Teach About the Complexity of Fisheries as Socio-Ecological Systems
    2018 FULLTEKST
  • Jorge Santos, Melania Borit :
    What knowledge, skills do our students get here? Or, are they getting the wrong skills?
    2018

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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;
    • 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:

    • AnxSAI: Anxiety-Sensitive Artificial Intelligence (lead: Umeå University, Sweden; 2022- )
    • GEDAI: Growing Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence (lead: Umeå University, Sweden; 2020- )

    Teaching

    • Course coordinator (2022-now): FSK-3014 Project organisation and collaboration
    • Lecturer (2015-now): BIO-3556 Marine resource biology and technology



    CV

    • 2023 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