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Bilde av Borit, Melania
Professor The Norwegian College of Fishery Science melania.borit@uit.no +4777620934 91352814 Tromsø 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.

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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 (2025): MNF-3001/8001 Arctic Future Pathfinders. A journey through the Northwest Passage
  • Course coordinator (since 2022): FSK-3014 Project organisation and collaboration
Researcher profile in Cristin
ORCID: https://orcid.org/0000-0002-1305-8581

Member of research group

Engaging Conflicts in a Digital Era (ENCODE)   Norsk innhold CRAFT   English content Center for Arctic Humanities   English content

Member of project

AFO-JIGG    English content IFM Club    English content FUTURES4Fish    English content IDEA    English content AI-Based Tools in Education: Challenges, Possibilities, and Reflected Implementation (AI-Edu)    English content

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