PhD Summer School Norway 2025
This one-week summer school, which is offered in collaboration with the SoMaT project at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), will focus on fostering interdisciplinary research and educational exchange, with an emphasis on sociomaterial transformation, sustainable technologies, and cross-cultural collaboration.
The program is open to participation from a select number of European and Asian SoMaT partner students from Japan, South Korea, and China, as well as DIGIT members.
SoMaT PhD School Norway 2025
When: June 16-20, 2025
Where: Trondheim, NTNU
Application deadline: February 15
Registration: https://www.somat.no/phd-school-norway-2025
The main target group for the programme is PhD students in Social Sciences and Humanities (SSH), including Science and Technology Studies (STS), Gender Studies, sociology, anthropology and related disciplines.
It is open for PhD studets from SoMaT partner universities and DIGIT research school. There are also a few open slots for applicants from other European universities.
NB: the summer school overlaps with the DIGIT Brussels seminar.
Content
The one-week school, will cover socio-material methods, decolonization perspectives, digitalization, sustainability, and diversity aspects on how societies are changing. The program will focus on fostering interdisciplinary research and educational exchange.
Financial support
For DIGIT participants residing outside Trondheim, DIGIT will cover expenses for travel costs (up to 2500 NOK) and accommodation. Read more on our travel policy. Once your place in the course is confirmed, contact us for more details.
The SoMaT-project
SoMaT is an INTPART (Research Council of Norway) project that investigates sociomaterial transformations in Norway and East Asia from a Humanities-based Science & Technology Studies (STS) framework on three thematic areas: sustainability, digitalization, and diversity. The project is led by DIGIT’s and NTNU's Prof. Roger A. Søraa and Assoc. Prof. Marius Korsnes. The project partners are Institute of Science Tokyo (IST), Korea Advanced Institute of Science Technology (KAIST), Tsinghua University (THU), and University of Chinese Academy of Sciences (UCAS).
Academic coordinator - Roger A. Søraa
Roger A. Søraa is a Professor in STS at NTNU in the Department of Interdisciplinary Studies of Culture (KULT). His research focus is on automation, robotization, and the digitalization of society – how humans and technology relate to each other. Dr. Søraa is especially interested in the social domestication of technology.
Søraa is currently leading the research projects BIASproject.eu and SOMAT.no. He has published several books, including “AI for Diversity” and “Digitalization: a guide to critical thinking.”
Academic coordinator - Kristine Ask
Kristine Ask is an Associate Professor at KULT, NTNU. Her research explores the relationship between technology and society, with a particular focus on how digital technologies become part of everyday life, often giving rise to new and unexpected meanings and practices. In her research and teaching, Ask combines perspectives from internet and game studies with STS perspectives.
Please feel free to contact the DIGIT coordinator should you have any practical questions.