Susanne Jørgensen
About
Concepts like ‘the metric society’ and ‘the tyranny of metrics’ suggests that increasingly, policy and governance are shaped and steered by quantitative information. My project engages critically with such assumptions by using STS theory to analyse how actors in the Norwegian climate and energy policy field make sense of and employ numbers. I also analyse how producers of numerical information make and communicate such information to policymakers.
Research interests
- Energy and climate policy
- Transition research
- Mobility
- Audit society, metric fixation
- Smart energy technology
- Domestication of technology and science
- Science-policy relations
- Knowledge production, knowledge utilization and knowledge mobility
- Sustainability transitions
- Port sector
ACES
I am a researcher in the research project ACES - Accelerating Energy- and Sustiainability Transitions in Ports: from national visions to co-constructed transition. ACES aims to facilitate and accelerate sector-wide energy and sustainability transitions in Norwegian ports by: strengthening energy transition and port sustainability on the national political and administrative agenda through facilitating national vision and strategy development; enhancing the transition capability of individual ports through co-creation of transition agendas, visions and role development; and ensuring exchange and alignment between national and port-specific transition work across sectors. Ports can move society towards zero emission through the number of functions they serve, including delivering sustainability ambitions and ensuring synergies between the different sectors that intersect in ports. This requires deliberate, port-specific transition work to be coupled with intersectoral perspectives and national visions. Three ports are involved in the project: Bodø, Kristiansand and Borg. The project uses Transition Management as research design, a method that combines research and applied work. Through dialogue, the project will help actors in the local ports, as well as national actors, to interpret the complexity that arises in the face of new sustainability requirements and competing companies or opposition from societal actors. The mindset behind this process should be optimization, and to have a critical look at one’s own and current practice.
Competencies
Publications
2022
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Jørgensen, Susanne;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan.
(2022)
Transitions through numbers? A critical inquiry into superior numeric targets in climate and energy policymaking.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
2017
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Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Jørgensen, Susanne;
Ryghaug, Marianne.
(2017)
Users, design and the role of feedback technologies in the Norwegian energy transition: An empirical study and some radical challenges.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
2015
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Jørgensen, Susanne;
Ryghaug, Marianne;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe.
(2015)
Smart strøm - smarte kunder? En studie av norske husholdningers domestisering av smarte strømmålere og styringsteknologier.
Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU Trondheim
Masters thesis
Journal publications
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Jørgensen, Susanne;
Sørensen, Knut Holtan.
(2022)
Transitions through numbers? A critical inquiry into superior numeric targets in climate and energy policymaking.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
-
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe;
Jørgensen, Susanne;
Ryghaug, Marianne.
(2017)
Users, design and the role of feedback technologies in the Norwegian energy transition: An empirical study and some radical challenges.
Energy Research & Social Science
Academic article
Report
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Jørgensen, Susanne;
Ryghaug, Marianne;
Skjølsvold, Tomas Moe.
(2015)
Smart strøm - smarte kunder? En studie av norske husholdningers domestisering av smarte strømmålere og styringsteknologier.
Institutt for tverrfaglige kulturstudier, NTNU Trondheim
Masters thesis