Karen O'Brien#

Membership Number:6122
Membership type:ORDINARY
Section:SOCIAL CHANGE AND SOCIAL THOUGHT
Elected:2022
Main Country of Residence:NORWAY
Homepage(s):https://www.sv.uio.no/iss/english/people/aca/karenob/index.html
ORCID:0000-0002-2448-0665
Twitter:@cCHANGE_OBrien
Linkedin:https://linkedin.com/in/karen-o-brien-a6a45913


Present and Previous Positions
  • 2005 Professor of Human Geography/Department of Sociology and Human Geography, University of Oslo/Norway
  • 2014 Co-Founder and Chair of the Board/cCHANGE, A.S. (Consultancy on Transformation in a Changing Climate)/Norway--
  • 2001 - 2005 Associate Professor of Human Geography/ISS, University of Oslo/Norway (20%)
  • 1997 - 2004 Senior Researcher/Center for International Climate and Environmental Research (CICERO)/Norway
  • 1996 - 1997 Post-doctoral Researcher/North American Commission for Environmental Cooperation/Canada

Fields of Scholarship
  • Quantum social change
  • Transformations to sustainability
  • Climate change vulnerability and adaptation
  • Economic globalization and its social and environmental impacts
  • Human dimensions of climate change

Honours and Awards
  • 2021 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge award for climate change (co-awarded)
  • 2020 Doctor of Philosophy honoris causa at Linköping University (awarded in May, 2022)/Sweden
  • 2019 American Association of Geographers (AAG) Human Dimensions of Global Change (HDGC) Specialty Group Research Excellence Award/USA
  • 2015 Lecturer of the Year, Awarded by Student Parliament, University of Oslo/Norway
  • 2012 Burtoni Award for outstanding contributions to the science of adaptation to climate change/Worldwide

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