Tine Friis

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I am a postdoctoral researcher at Medical Museion, the Department of Public Health, University of Copenhagen, and also affiliated with the Novo Nordisk Foundation Center for Stem Cell Medicine (reNEW). My position involves research, teaching, and museum work.

I am particularly interested in emerging biomedical technologies and research fields, their perceived promissory potentials, and their possible implications for how people understand their bodies, selves, and health. My research interests also evolve around how museum and exhibition practices can facilitate encounters between publics, research participants, and research findings, while also addressing issues of care and ethics in such encounters. I primarily use qualitative methods.

My current project investigates stem cell technologies through the hopes articulated by people participating in clinical trials. This project is part of reNEW.

My doctoral project (defended in 2023) explored the emerging field of microbiome research through personal experiences of how gut and psyche connect. The project also explored the language used to depict promissory potentials of microbiome research. The project is part of the research project Microbes on the Mind, funded by the Velux Foundation.

Research interests

• Subjectivity, health and society
• Social studies of science and technology (STS) and feminist science studies
• Socio-cultural, critical and feminist psychologies, particularly 'collective memory-work' as developed by Haug and colleagues
• Medical humanities
• Qualitative research practices, methodologies and ethics, among others in relation to museum and exhibition practice
  
  

Teaching and supervision

I teach classes at the course Qualitative methods on the third semester of the BA in Public Health, University of Copenhagen. I also teach classes at the PhD course Creative Techniques for Thesis Writing at Medical Museion. My supervision expertise broadly lies in the areas of qualitative methods, patient perspectives, notions of the body, self, and health, as well as communication of biomedical research etc.

Selected publications

1. Published

   Making voices: Curating encounters with personal experiences in an exhibition space

   Friis, Tine & Whiteley, Louise, 2024, Ethical and methodological dilemmas in social science interventions: Careful engagements in healthcare, museums, design and beyond. N. C. M. N. (ed.). 1 ed. Springer, Social Science, p. 271-286 16 p.

   Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Book chapter › Research › peer-review

2. Published

   Recasting ethical dilemmas in participatory research as a collective matter of ‘response-ability’

   Friis, Tine, 2021, In: STS Encounters - DASTS working paper series. 12, 1, p. 89-124

   Research output: Contribution to journal › Journal article › Research › peer-review