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.
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
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
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
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Viewpoint: Ethical by Designer - How to Grow Ethical Designers of Artificial Intelligence
Jan-Are Kolset Johnsen,
Melania Borit,
Lina Stangvaltaite-Mouhat
:
Using storytelling in undergraduate dental education: Students' experiences of emotional competence training
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
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)
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
Melania Borit,
Lina Stangvaltaite-Mouhat
:
GoDental! Enhancing flipped classroom experience with game-based learning
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
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
Harko Verhagen,
Melania Borit,
Giangiacomo Bravo,
Nanda Wijermans
:
Advances in Social Simulation. Looking in the Mirror
Springer Nature 2020
Krisztina Jonas,
Melania Borit
:
Creative futuring of socio-technical transformations through Embodied Transformation Theatre
11. junio 2025
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
Eva Christina Makaria Lentz,
Melania Borit,
Holger Pötzsch
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2025
Timo Szczepanska,
Melania Borit,
Zoheb Mashiur
:
Combining Worldbuilding, Game Design, and Creative Writing for Eliciting Rich Descriptions of Technological Futures in Interdisciplinary Teams
2025
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
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Inter- and transdisciplinary approaches on broadening the perspectives on Emotion Sensitive Artificial Intelligence
2025
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
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit
:
Ecological Crisis and Misanthropy in Video Games: Beyond Extractivism and Extinction
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
Holger Pötzsch,
Zoheb Mashiur,
Melania Borit,
Cornel Borit
:
Between ‘Stochastic Parrots’ and ‘Skynet’: Imaginaries of Data in Films on AI and Autonomous Technologies
2024
Christina Lentz,
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2024
Loïs Vanhée,
Melania Borit
:
Artificial Intelligence for Anxiety: Pathways for Transdisciplinary Research on Anxiety Sensitive Artificial Intelligence
2024
Holger Pötzsch,
Melania Borit
:
Kritisk KI-literacy i lærerutdanning og videreutdanning
2024
Krisztina Jonas,
Melania Borit
:
Whose voice is heard? Ethics for safeguarding just and sustainable Arctic marine social-ecological futures
2023
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
Zenodo 2023 FULLTEKST
Melania Borit,
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Sommerlyst [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023
Jorge Santos,
Melania Borit
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Kvaløya VGS II [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023
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
Antonio Jorge Fonseca Antunes Santos,
Melania Borit
:
Reise til fremtiden(e) Kvaløya VGS I [Travel to the future(s) - preparing the future]
2023
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining the futures of fisheries and coasts - Nord-Troms videregående skole avd. Skjervøy, 2022
2022
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining the futures of fisheries and coasts - Steiner School, Tromsø, September 2022
2022
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
Petter Olsen,
Shaheen Syed,
Melania Borit,
Céline Boéchat
:
Application, limitations, costs and benefits related to the use of blockchain technology in the seafood industry
Nofima 2022 ARKIV
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,
Roger B. Larsen
:
Rethinking the future of coastal fisheries
28. abril 2020
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos,
Roger B. Larsen
:
Tenker nytt om kystfiskerienes fremtid
21. abril 2020
Melania Borit,
Petter Olsen
:
Beyond regulatory compliance – Seafood traceability benefits and success cases
Harko Verhagen,
Melania Borit,
Giangiacomo Bravo,
Nanda Wijermans
:
Preface
Springer Proceedings in Complexity 2020 DOI
Melania Borit,
Jorge Santos
:
Imagining the future of fisheries and coasts - Kvaløya High-school, 2020
2020
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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:
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
Member of research group
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
- 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