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Gitte Hanssen Koksvik

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Gitte Hanssen Koksvik

Associate Professor
Department of Geography and Social Anthropology

gitte.koksvik@ntnu.no
+4773591751 Dragvoll 2, Bygg 7 - 10 Dragvoll, Trondheim
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About

Associate professor in Social Anthropology

I have a background in religious studies, philosophy and social anthropology. My research has primarily centred on health and the medical domain, with particular focus on the borders of life and end of life.  

My areas of interest include

  • Assisted dying
  • Palliative care
  • Aging and old age 
  • The relationship between human and machine 
  • Ethics in healthcare (medicine, bioethics, nursing ethics)
  • Ethnographic methods in applied ethics
  • Neoliberalism and individual responsibilisation
  • Technologies in use
  • Corporate social responsibility

 

Affiliated researcher with University of Glasgow End of Life Studies Group.

Competencies

  • Antropologi
  • Applied ethics
  • Clinical Ethics
  • Death
  • Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility
  • Ethnography
  • Euthanasia
  • Neoliberalism
  • Qualitative methods
  • Research ethics
  • Responsible Research and Innovation
  • Terminal care

Publications

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2024

  • Vijay, Devi; Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2024) Waiting for Care and Community Organizing for Serious Health-Related Suffering in Kerala, India. Medical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen; Tøndel, Gunhild. (2024) Ethnographic Research in Nursing Homes: Does Juridified Research Ethics Promote the Systematic Exclusion of Older People Facing End of Life?. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS)
    Academic article

2022

  • Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2022) Sustainable seaweed food and feed – hope or hype?. Wageningen Academic Publishers
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

2021

  • Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality
    Academic article
  • Thorseth, May Britt; Alvarez, Allen Andrew; Stabell, Espen Dyrnes; Koksvik, Gitte. (2021) Fostering hope and resilience amidst intractable ethical dilemmas brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Etikk i praksis
    Editorial

2020

  • Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, innblanding og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Gerson, Sheri Mila; Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi; Materstvedt, Lars Johan; Clark, David. (2020) The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    Academic literature review
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: Examples from Quebec. Wellcome Open Research
    Academic article
  • Gerson, Sheri Mila; Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi; Materstvedt, Lars Johan; Clark, David. (2020) Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Québec. Annals of Palliative Medicine
    Academic literature review
  • Richards, Naomi; Koksvik, Gitte; Gerson, Sheri Mila; Clark, David. (2020) The Global Spread of Death Café: A Cultural Intervention Relevant to Policy?. Social Policy and Society
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement. International journal of cultural studies
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi; Gerson, Sheri Mila; Materstvedt, Lars Johan; Clark, David. (2020) Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying. Health
    Academic article

2018

  • Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Nilsen, Marie; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Koksvik, Gitte. (2018) Examining the barriers and motivators affecting European decision-makers in the development of smart and green energy technologies. Journal of Cleaner Production
    Academic literature review
  • Lettmayer, Gudrun; Schwarzinger, Stephan; Koksvik, Gitte; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Velte, Daniela; Dimitrova, Elena. (2018) The impact of “Energy memories” on Energy Cultures and energy consumption patterns. ECHOES project
    Report
  • Sæther, Simen Rostad; Qiu, Xinlu; Skaar, Marianne; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Nilsen, Marie; Gauteplass, Asle. (2018) Policy Recommendations: An analysis on collective and energy related decision- making processes of three formal social units. EC/H2020
    Report
  • Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Throndsen, William; Ryghaug, Marianne; Fjellså, Ingvild Firman; Koksvik, Gitte. (2018) Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: New empirical and conceptual insights. Energy Research & Social Science
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2018) Medically timed Death as an enactment of good Death: An ethnographic study of Three European intensive care units. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying
    Academic article

2017

  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død . Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Burov, Angel; Carrus, Giuseppe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Dimitrova, Elena. (2017) ECHOES Report. Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings - A comprehensive Literature Review. European Commission European Commission
    Report
  • Throndsen, William; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Koksvik, Gitte; Ryghaug, Marianne. (2017) Case study report Norway - Findings from case studies of PV Pilot Trøndelag, Smart Energi Hvaler and Asko Midt-Norge. MATCH project
    Report
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred. Implicit Religion
    Academic article

2016

  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Blurry lines and Spaces of tension. Clinical-ethical and Existential issues in Intensive Care. A study of Three European Intensive Care Units. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2016:184)
    Doctoral dissertation
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Silent subjects, loud diseases: Enactment of personhood in intensive care. Health
    Academic article

2015

  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Dignity in Practice: Day-to-Day Life in Intensive Care Units in Western Europe. Medical Anthropology
    Academic article

2013

  • Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen; Clark, David. (2013) Death and Dying. Sage Publications
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Journal publications

  • Vijay, Devi; Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2024) Waiting for Care and Community Organizing for Serious Health-Related Suffering in Kerala, India. Medical Anthropology
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen; Tøndel, Gunhild. (2024) Ethnographic Research in Nursing Homes: Does Juridified Research Ethics Promote the Systematic Exclusion of Older People Facing End of Life?. Tidsskrift for samfunnsforskning (TfS)
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi. (2021) Death Café, Bauman and striving for human connection in ‘liquid times’. Mortality
    Academic article
  • Thorseth, May Britt; Alvarez, Allen Andrew; Stabell, Espen Dyrnes; Koksvik, Gitte. (2021) Fostering hope and resilience amidst intractable ethical dilemmas brought about by the COVID-19 pandemic. Etikk i praksis
    Editorial
  • Simonsen, Jan Ketil; Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) For fellesskapets beste: Moralske forpliktelser, innblanding og etiske dilemmaer på feltarbeid. Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Gerson, Sheri Mila; Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi; Materstvedt, Lars Johan; Clark, David. (2020) The relationship of palliative care with assisted dying where assisted dying is lawful: A systematic scoping review of the literature. Journal of Pain and Symptom Management
    Academic literature review
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) Practical and ethical complexities of MAiD: Examples from Quebec. Wellcome Open Research
    Academic article
  • Gerson, Sheri Mila; Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi; Materstvedt, Lars Johan; Clark, David. (2020) Assisted dying and palliative care in three jurisdictions: Flanders, Oregon, and Québec. Annals of Palliative Medicine
    Academic literature review
  • Richards, Naomi; Koksvik, Gitte; Gerson, Sheri Mila; Clark, David. (2020) The Global Spread of Death Café: A Cultural Intervention Relevant to Policy?. Social Policy and Society
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2020) Neoliberalism, individual responsibilization and the death positivity movement. International journal of cultural studies
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte; Richards, Naomi; Gerson, Sheri Mila; Materstvedt, Lars Johan; Clark, David. (2020) Medicalisation, suffering and control at the end of life: The interplay of deep continuous palliative sedation and assisted dying. Health
    Academic article
  • Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Nilsen, Marie; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Koksvik, Gitte. (2018) Examining the barriers and motivators affecting European decision-makers in the development of smart and green energy technologies. Journal of Cleaner Production
    Academic literature review
  • Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Throndsen, William; Ryghaug, Marianne; Fjellså, Ingvild Firman; Koksvik, Gitte. (2018) Orchestrating households as collectives of participation in the distributed energy transition: New empirical and conceptual insights. Energy Research & Social Science
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2018) Medically timed Death as an enactment of good Death: An ethnographic study of Three European intensive care units. Omega - Journal of Death and Dying
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Frihet fra lidelse, individuell selvbestemmelsesrett og døden som kunstverk: Antegnelser til en antropologisk undersøkelse av assistert død . Norsk Antropologisk Tidsskrift
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Something that cannot be put into words? Intensive care, secularity and the sacred. Implicit Religion
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Silent subjects, loud diseases: Enactment of personhood in intensive care. Health
    Academic article
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Dignity in Practice: Day-to-Day Life in Intensive Care Units in Western Europe. Medical Anthropology
    Academic article

Part of book/report

  • Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2022) Sustainable seaweed food and feed – hope or hype?. Wageningen Academic Publishers
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper
  • Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen; Clark, David. (2013) Death and Dying. Sage Publications
    Academic chapter/article/Conference paper

Report

  • Lettmayer, Gudrun; Schwarzinger, Stephan; Koksvik, Gitte; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Velte, Daniela; Dimitrova, Elena. (2018) The impact of “Energy memories” on Energy Cultures and energy consumption patterns. ECHOES project
    Report
  • Sæther, Simen Rostad; Qiu, Xinlu; Skaar, Marianne; Røyrvik, Jens Olgard Dalseth; Nilsen, Marie; Gauteplass, Asle. (2018) Policy Recommendations: An analysis on collective and energy related decision- making processes of three formal social units. EC/H2020
    Report
  • Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Biresselioglu, Mehmet Efe; Burov, Angel; Carrus, Giuseppe; Demir, Muhittin Hakan; Dimitrova, Elena. (2017) ECHOES Report. Social Science Perspectives on Electric Mobility, Smart Energy Technologies, and Energy Use in Buildings - A comprehensive Literature Review. European Commission European Commission
    Report
  • Throndsen, William; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Koksvik, Gitte; Ryghaug, Marianne. (2017) Case study report Norway - Findings from case studies of PV Pilot Trøndelag, Smart Energi Hvaler and Asko Midt-Norge. MATCH project
    Report
  • Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Blurry lines and Spaces of tension. Clinical-ethical and Existential issues in Intensive Care. A study of Three European Intensive Care Units. Doktoravhandlinger ved NTNU (2016:184)
    Doctoral dissertation

Teaching

Courses

  • SANT1022 - Ethnographic Method
  • SANT6501 - Cultural understanding and Diversity
  • SANT2029 - Anthropology of death and dying

Outreach

2024

  • Academic lecture
    Tøndel, Gunhild; Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2024) Døden - i det norske samfunn. DERK - seminar i regi av forskernettverket Døden: Emosjoner, relasjoner og kultur (DERK) 2024-09-12 - 2024-09-12

2023

  • Programme participation
    Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2023) NRK Etikketaten "Regi på gravferd/Introvert på buss/Dødshjelp". [Radio] 2023-02-02
  • Programme participation
    Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2023) NRK Etikketaten "Skal ein redde dyr frå brennande hus?". [Radio] 2023-03-16
  • Interview
    Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2023) Michael hjalp farfaren med å dø: – Han ba om å få slippe Sommeren 2023 ble 93-åringens aller siste. NRK NRK [Internet] 2023-10-30

2022

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte Hanssen. (2022) Verdighet, lidelse og kontroll. Døden som kulturelt fenomen. . Landskonferansen i palliasjon 2022 2022-09-16 - 2022-09-16
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2022) Sustainable seaweed food and feed - hope or hype?. University of Edinburgh EURSAFE 2022: Transforming Food Systems , Edinburgh 2022-09-07 - 2022-09-10

2021

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte; Myskja, Bjørn Kåre. (2021) En ny norsk tareindustri - muligheter og hindringer. Sintef SIG Seaweed , Trondheim 2021-11-26 -

2017

  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) “This is what is coming”: Sociotechnical imaginaries of the energy future. A case study of Norwegian early adopters of solar panel technology. Society for social studies of science 4S , Boston 2017-08-30 - 2017-09-02
  • Academic lecture
    Ryghaug, Marianne; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Urban automation experiments and the user: Creating invasive technologies or New possibilities for inclusion?. Urban Institute, University of Sheffield Urban automation workshop , Sheffield 2017-09-04 - 2017-09-06
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Legeassistert død - ars moriendi i biomedisinens samfunn?. Norsk antropologisk forening, Høyskolen i Innlandet Årskonferanse i Norsk antropologisk forening 2017 , Lillehammer 2017-05-05 - 2017-05-07
  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2017) Sunny Trøndelag?. NTNU MATCH project meeting , NTNU Dragvoll 2017-03-20 - 2017-03-21
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte; Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe; Ryghaug, Marianne. (2017) Prosumers in practice: energy transitions in everyday. hopefulNESS 2017 The 13th Nordic Environmental Social Science Conference 2017-06-06 - 2017-06-08

2016

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2016) Døden på Intensiven - kunstig eller naturlig?. Midtnorsk intensivforum 2016-03-03 - 2016-03-04

2015

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Something that cannot be put into words? Modern biomedicine, secularity and the sacred. . CUFF CUFF workshoå 2015-12-16 - 2015-12-18
  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Promoting the Dignity and Integrity of Vulnerable Patients: Engaged Proximity or Respectful Distance. Ethics of Caring. 3rd National Nursing Ethics Conference. "Confersations in Ethics" 2015-03-19 - 2015-03-20
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2015) Keynote: Giving Voice to the Unexpressive Patient. Ethics of Caring. 3rd National Nursing Ethics Conference "Conversatoins in Ethics" 2015-03-19 - 2015-03-20

2014

  • Lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2014) Internseminar. Subjektet i intensivpleien. Internt seminar ved sosialantropologisk institutt 2014-03-26 - 2014-03-26
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2014) A voice for the inexpressive patient. Enactment of personhood in the ICU. ICCEC 2014 , Paris 2014-04-24 - 2014-04-26
  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2014) Don’t mind me. I am just here to observe”. Moral-Ethical Quandaries of Observation in the Hospital Clinic. The Cultural Logic of Facts and Figures III, Third Annual CUFF Conference 2014-08-18 - 2014-08-20

2013

  • Academic lecture
    Koksvik, Gitte. (2013) Intensive care medicine: clinical-ethical and existential issues. CUFF, NTNU The ethics and politics of objectification, measurement and standardization , Trondheim 2013-10-25 - 2013-10-27

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