• 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.

My research interests lie at the intersection of gender studies, cultural theory, critical AI studies, affect theory, and media and technology studies. I am particularly interested in how emerging technologies reshape gender, intimacy, emotion, embodiment, and human relations with technological objects. I am also interested in experimental writing as a form of feminist epistemology and knowledge production, including practices that challenge conventional academic forms and explore how writing itself can function as a method of cultural and theoretical inquiry. My work frequently moves between cultural theory, artistic research, technological experimentation, and critical inquiry into contemporary technoculture.

My research projects:

• 2024–2027 Love Tester Machines. Prototype Technologies for Profiling Personalities, Feelings and Relationships (Cultural Research) • National Science Center Individual OPUS Grant no 2023/49/B/HS2/00054 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
• 2020–2025 Networking Ecologically Smart Territories • Horizon2020 Marie-Curie Actions Group Grant No 101007915 directed by Prof. Noel Fitzpatrick of Technology University in Dublin (Roles: SENIOR RESEARCHER, TASK DIRECTOR, RESEARCH DISSEMINATION OFFICER)   
• 2020–2024 Technologies for Love. Cultures of Feeling and Intimacy under Affective Media • National Science Center Individual OPUS Grant no 2020/37/B/HS2/01455 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
• 2018–2019 Feelings Without Organs. Love in Contemporary Technoculture • Senior Fulbright Fellowship from the Advanced Research Program of the Fulbright Foundation carried out at the New School in New York USA (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)
• 2017–2018 Love and New Materialism, National Science Center Individual MINIATURA Grant no 2017/01/X/HS2/00713 (Role: PRINCIPAL INVESTIGATOR)

 Courses:

• HIF-2300 - Diversity, Gender, and Equity: Leadership for Transformative Change in Institutions
• HIF-1300 - Diversity, Gender, and Equity: Leadership for Transformative Change in Institutions

I research the gendered dimensions of human thought, performance, creation and relation. With a master in musicology and media- and communication studies, I came to gender studies through the history of women's cultural work, and that training still shapes how I work: I attend to sound, gesture, timing and performance as sites where relations are made: in institutions, in archives, in artistic practice, in care work, and in the way we understand each other.

I develop situated art intervention as a research method: artistic practice designed as a research instrument, used to open questions that can hardly be adressed by conventional methods. Alongside it I work with archival studies, multimodal and diffractive analysis, discourse and policy analysis, interviews and ethnographic fieldwork.

I work inter- and transdisciplinarily, with artists, social scientists and natural scientists. Feminist posthumanist theory and creative methods enter at every stage of a project, designing the study, generating and analysing material, and communicating findings. This matters because knowledge is always situated: who asks, from where, with which body and which history, shapes what can be known. Working across art and science lets me attend to naturecultures and to human and more-than-human intra-actions, to the ways matter, meaning and power are entangled.

Co-creativity is the organising principle of this work, and citizen science its most public form: research designed with participants which makes ethics a question of relation and consent throughout a project. The same commitment runs through my work on open-access publishing, exhibitions, street galleries and public programming, because who can reach and contribute to knowledge is an equality question.

What I am specifically interested in

• Ageing, dementia and living in difference together. How we can think differently about ageing and dementia by looking to what happens between people, to feminist care as a shared practice, and to growth and a good life as something we make with one another.
• Planetary health and coastal cultures. How gender, labour and knowledge are organised along northern coastlines, and what feminist and Indigenous perspectives contribute to understanding ocean pasts and futures.
• Feminist historiography and performative research. Recovering and re-performing the histories of women's cultural work, and treating historiography itself as a performative act that makes certain pasts possible.
• Co-creativity as a rigorous concept. What distinguishes genuinely shared authorship of knowledge from participation and art as decoration.

 Expertise

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

Member

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

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

I am a literary scholar with a PhD in Nordic literature and extensive experience of interdisciplinary research environments at UiT The Arctic University of Norway. My research centres on feminist epistemologies and methodology, with a particular emphasis on listening as a knowledge practice in the humanities and across the social world. I am interested in exploring how listening can open up more inclusive, caring, and responsible ways of understanding both human and more-than-human environments. More broadly, I work at the intersection of literature, monsterstudies, environmental humanities, and gender studies.

As a postdoctoral researcher in feminist studies on the project Arctic Auditories – Hydrospheres in the High North, I have worked with research communication, fieldwork-adjacent perspectives, and collective practices of writing and reflection. This latter work has fostered an academic interest in the concept of “care” and in non-hierarchical ways of working in academia. I am concerned with how critical theory can be translated into concrete pedagogical and institutional practices, and with how it can provide tools for co-creating positive, transformative learning environments.

During my doctoral research fellowship, I worked on illness narratives and Scandinavian Gothic, examining how Gothic devices can help to cut through linguistic and cultural barriers in order to convey the lived experience and affect of illnesses such as cancer, eating disorders, and dementia.

Through my publications, teaching, and scholarly organisational work, I also contribute to strengthening conversations about feminist knowledge production, accessibility, and sustainable futures at universities and in society.

RESEARCH ARES OF INTEREST: 

Feminist methodologies
Feminist epistemologies
Gothic Literature Studies
Environmental Humanities
Monster methodologies
Medical Humanities
Gender Studies
EcoGothic
Nordic and Scandinavian Gothic

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

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.