About
I am a Senior Researcher at the Norwegian Institute for Urban and Regional Research (NIBR) at Oslo Metropolitan University (OsloMet). I hold a PhD in sustainability transitions and transformations, and my research explores how positive change together can be crafted collectively – across disciplines, sectors and places.
I am particularly interested in co-creation, transformative governance, and how learning can contribute to sustainable societal change. My work connects research and practice, drawing on perspectives from geography, futures studies, learning sciences, and sustainability science.
I work with both Norwegian and European knowledge-action questions, using comparative case studies and open methods to understand how places and communities can develop new solutions and new ways of working together.
I contribute to the research projects INNOSPACE and CIRCULAR, funded by the Research Council of Norway, and GoGreen, funded by the Independent Research Fund Denmark. I am also active in international research networks on sustainability transitions, with a particular interest in how we learn and develop through processes of change themselves.
Field of study
Urban regeneration Interdisciplinary Civic and citizenship education Sustainable Innovation Sustainability Science Cross-disciplinary co-creation
Research groups
Research projects
Ongoing research projects
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CIRCULAR: Collaborative innovation of circular economy
Transforming the economic system from a linear to a circular economy is critical for realising a sustainable society. Circular-project asks: What are the main governance factors driving the co-creation of an innovative circular economy for reduced consumption?
Completed research projects
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FUSILLI - Fostering the Urban Food System Transformation through Innovative Living Labs Implementation
Through experimental methods and knowledge sharing, researchers will explore new ways of producing and distributing food in European cities. OsloMet and the municipality of Oslo are Norwegian partners in the project, which has been supported by Horizon 2020, the EU's framework program for research.
Publications and research
Scientific publications
McCrory, Gavin
; Holmén, Johan; Schäpke, Niko; Holmberg, John
(2022).
Sustainability-oriented labs in transitions: An empirically grounded typology.
Environmental Innovation and Societal Transitions.
Vol. 43.
https://doi.org/10.1016/j.eist.2022.03.004
