As an ethnographer interested in how knowledge shapes uncertainty and uncertainty shapes knowledge, I explore the moments when our assumptions are challenged and new possibilities emerge.
Working at the intersection of cultural and economic sociology and science and technology studies, I explore the ways that actors and organizations manage uncertainty, how knowledge producers negotiate the boundary between objectivity and interpretation, and how semiotic structures change how we read the world.
I currently divide my time between teaching and supervising students at Lund University and researching the intersections between knowledge production and technological change at Stockholm Center for Organisational Research at Stockholm University. In addition to these positions, I am contributing to a project on how academic peer-review panels handle uncertainty when evaluating speculative research proposals.
I received my PhD in Sociology from Uppsala University, Sweden, where I defended my dissertation thesis Mining Futures: Predictions and Uncertainty in Swedish Mineral Exploration. In the thesis I investigated how mineral explorers use forecasts and predictions manage economic, technological, and environmental uncertainties. I also explored how explorers used the predictions they made to persuade investors, government actors, and stakeholders to support future mining operations.
For more information about my work, please see my CV.