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
