"Work Unlimited: Identity construction in a global context" is a project funded by Working Life Research Program at the Norwegian Research Council (NFR). The project will be focusing on the subjective and personal experiences of global work migrants moving across geographical and administrative boundaries in different European countries. This research will be a collaborative project involving the fields of organizational anthropology and organizational psychology located at the departments of Social Anthropology and Psychology respectively at NTNU.

Project leader: Carla Dahl-Jørgensen

IO4 - Production and performance optimization

The digitalization of the petroleum industry offers great opportunities for decision support tools. To fully realize the potential of increased amounts of data, new capabilities should be added to already existing tools, and in addition, new tools need to be developed. In particular, a range of data sources should be combined with mathematical models to compute recommendations in a variety of work processes. Hence, model supported tools provide a means to integrate across disciplines and silos.

DOIL - Digital Oil

Oil and gas activities generate vast amounts of data in different formats, time-scales and granularity throughout the lifecycle of an oil and gas well. The Digital oil (Doil) project proposal addresses the challenging research issue and pressing practical and economic concern of how to exploit the potential of ICT to obtain a sufficient overview of the subsea well to operate them in an efficient and safe manner. Doil targets the sub-surface community of geo-sciences (geologists, reservoir engineers, production engineers and geophysicists) and identifies (i) tactics for trusting sensor-based information, (ii) user-driven heuristics for generating overviews of the well lifecycle and (iii) a demonstrator for situated search of the full well lifecycle.

Doil is organised around a mature research network with extensive experience with interactive modes of research with the full array of external partners (oil and gas companies, oil service companies and ICT vendors). A comprehensive international network covering relevant areas of Doil is involved.

Project leader: Petter Almklov

NAV (The Norwegian Labour and Welfare Service) is testing a new concept for organizing its supported employment services in 5 local offices, with 5 matching offices as control cases. The new service starts operations on April 1, 2013. 5 researchers from the Work Research Institute document and evaluate the process as it unfolds. We use a mixed-methods approach to gather data, combining, statistical, discourse and ethnographic methods.  For sharing research insights and conclusions with participants along the way we use action research methods.

Contact withing COA: Benedicte Brøgger.