• feminist theories, especially feminist new materialism
• feminist pedagogy
• artistic research
• inequality
• places
• sound/music
• artificial intelligence

PI of Arctic Auditories - Hydrospheres of the High North (NFR 325506, 2021-25)

member of the advisory board of WoVen (NFR 2021-26, PI: Melania Bucciarelli, NTNU)

co-editor of the European Journal of Musicology

Networks: the Sustainability Academic Network (SUSAN), Nordic Soundscape Research Network (NSRN)

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.

I develop situated art intervention as a research method to explore complex research questions related to gender, dementia, and how to live in difference together. I have also worked with other qualitative research methods, including archival studies, content analysis, multimodal analysis, aesthetic analysis, diffractive analysis, discourse analysis, policy analysis, and ethnographic fieldwork.

I primarily work inter- and transdisciplinary, collaborating with artists, social scientists, and natural scientists who are interested in human thoughts, performances, creations, and relationships, as well as the broader question of what it means to be human.  

Member

UArctic Thematic Network on Gender in Arctic Knowledge Production
UArctic Thematic Network on Environmental Humanities
International Research Network Arts & Dementia

Expertise

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

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.

Political philosophy, democracy, citizenship, theories of justice, public reason, global justice,feminism, ethics, research etihics.

• 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)

• Sociology of health and illness
• Health services research
• Digitalisation and technology in health care
• Gender research
• Qualitative methods
• Health Experiences International - Research network