• 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

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 art-based research, while I theoretically apply sociological perspectives such as Science and Technology Studies (STS), material feminist theory and citizenship theory. 

Skumsnes' research has focused on social history, through the lens of family and gender, with New Kingdom Egypt (1500-1000 BCE) as a speciality. During more recent years, his attention has shifted more towards the concept of the body, exploring the interdisciplinary potential between Egyptology and other disciplines, between past empirical material and present theories of the body, and sex/gender. He is concerned with relational encounters, between spatially and temporally fractal positions, perspectives and records, which includes the significance of material, genre, purpose and context of specific records, the selection of records, as well as the questions and perspectives of the interpreter.

Ageing and Dementia
Coastal Cultures
Gender and Gender Equality
Historiography and Storytelling
Sound and Music

Expertise

Co-creativity
Citizen Science
Open Research
Research Communication
Research Ethics  

What I do

I apply feminist theories to explore human thoughts, creations, and relations, and what it means to be human at all. I often use qualitative and arts-based research methods such as archival studies, content analysis, multimodal analysis, aesthetic analysis, diffractive analysis, discourse analysis, policy analysis, qualitative interviews, focus group interviews, ethnographic fieldwork, and situated art intervention.

With a strong background within the arts & humanities, I have developed close collaborations with social and natural scientists working on artscience, natureculture, and human-more-than-human intra-actions. Theoretically, my work is inspired by feminist posthumanism and new materialism. Empirically, my research is increasingly connected to the Arctic where I have lived since 2014. 

Fairytale studies and folklore

Fantasy literature

Gothic Literature Studies

Monster research

Monster methodologies

Medical Humanities

Narratology 

Narrative medicine

Gender Studies

EcoGothic

Nordic and Scandinavian Gothic

Feminist Methodology

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.

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.

• Sociology of health and illness
• Health services research
• Digitalisation and technology in health care
• Gender research
• Qualitative methods

• 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)